You would think that the United States would be able to offer the best of the best in cell phone technology, right? Although this is true to a certain extent, most people have no clue that Europe is ahead of the United States when it comes to the overall well being of the cell phone industry. They do not have a huge lead, but the fact of the matter is that they are doing some things better. While most United States citizens never even think about this, the people who are actually involved in the cell phone industry have their hands full. After all, the United States is expected to be the frontrunner when it comes to technology.

All in all, Europe has an entirely different vision and standard for the way that cell phones are developed and used. Much like the way that television standards are different across the world, cell phones are the same way when comparing the United States to Europe. The only difference is that the cell phone industry is much worse in this regard.

In Europe, the Global System for Mobile Communications or GSM is used. For instance, this system is used for digital cell phones across pretty much the entire continent. When you look at Germany you will see a much clearer idea as to what GSM is all about. Germany has four main cell phone standards. They are known as D1, D2, D3, and e-plus. The good thing about all of these is that they fall under the GSM. But if you take a closer look at the United States you will see the main differences. The bottom line is that the cell phone system in the United States is far more complicated for a number of different reasons. The main reason for this is the fact that in the United States there is more than one digital system instead of one universal way of doing things.

While it would be nice to have a universal cell phone standard, this is something that does not look like it will be happening any time soon in the United States, as competing companies do not want to give up their power or market share. In fact, the United States and Europe have had heated discussions in the past regarding a universal standard. While Europe is far ahead of the United States with GSM as their universal system, the United States has more than one digital network working at the same time using either a TDMA or CDMA setup.

It is not hard to see that the GSM used in Europe is far superior to the current way of doing things in the United States. Although the United States technology sector is aware of this, it is unknown if they will ever make any changes. So until then, Europe will continue with the GSM and its dominance in this area of technology.

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THIS ARTICLE IS INCORRECT - IPHONE WILL NOT BE RELEASE IN MARCH!
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Sources at Cingular say that Apple is planning an earlier release of the Apple IPhone.
Rather than a Summer release - sources at Cingular Wireless told mPhone.net they are ramping up for a March rollout of the highly anticipated IPhone, expected to rattle the wireless world!

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I was talking yesterday to my two brothers-in-law who both have a super cheap cell phone plan - but it comes with a phone that only supports voice calls and no SMS messages. I am not one of those teenagers who needs to text message all the time, but I sure love the abilityto zip off a few messages a day. SMS’s have a place in the web of communications. They have their own characteristics like other forms of modern communications.

Ain’t modern communication great?

Strange to imagine how business was done just 15 or 20 years ago!

After about 2 years of Motorola dominating the cell phone channels in the US by releasing 10 different models of Razr Phones, Apple came up with something a little different. The IPhone looks really cool and aside from canibalizing their own IPOD market - it will probably attract a lot of attention when its released in the summer.

IPHONE will change the cell phone market - but they may not be the ones who get the maximum benefit from the change.

Here’s my theory:

- The cellular providers will be around for the forseeable future - but there will be an ability to “roll your own” cellular provider soon, and this will take a bite out of their business.
- The availability of WiMax and other low cost long range wireless options will mean that a device that can allow you to do wireless VOIP will be able to replace your current cell phone plan (or merge with your cell phone plan).
- Just as Vonage and the other VOIP companies have enabled people to leave their normal phone company, the advent of WiMax or similar technologies will enable people to take their phone number and have it redirect to VOIP.
- I envision a period of transition in which tech savy people will find their own ways to use VOIP, for example, by subscribing to Verizon or Cingular’s fast data and programming their “smart phone” to use LCR - least cost routing.
- That means that each call dialled will be evaluated to see the lowest cost - then dialed such that it routes via VOIP where that is cheaper.
- Eventually the carriers themselves will need to differentiate themselves and offer more services and cooler phones to keep their subscribers from jumping ship.
- So people will eventuallyend up with “phone number providers” and even that will eventually become a commodity.

IPhone will play a role too. It wakes us up to the fact that the phone is becoming the convergence device.
Eventually the cell phone will be your memory and operating system too. So when you go to work - you pop it into its cradle and you have your desktop and programs and files etc. And your desktop may be MAC!

That’s all I have to say about that right now!

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My 8 year old wants a cell phone.

He claims he NEEDS a cell phone!

When I was 8 - I didn’t even have a walkie talkie that worked from my garage to my front lawn!

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Personally - I think they can do without a permanent cell phone - but there are those occasions when we lend him one of ours…