Mobile Ministry Magazine: Does No 3G Effect You

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Does No 3G Effect You

One of the more recent developments on the smartphone side of things is that Qualcomm has been granted an injuncture to halt the selling of new 3G enabled devices. To make a long drawn out court case short, Nokia and others have basically used their technology and Qualcomm wants to be paid for it.

While this really effects those who have GSM (AT&T and TMobile) mobile devices in the US, there is some effect across all users. Mainly because it means that these devices that have broadband speeds are no longer available for import or purchase.

To those of you who use a 3G enabled smartphone (such as the Treo 750, Cingular 8525, Nokia N75, and others), does this have any effect on you? And what about those of you who were looking at mobile devices becasue this kind of speed and ability was available? Does this make you consider Sprint and Verizon all the more (their devices aren't yet effected by this)?