Saturday, March 27, 2010

why on earth is india still farting around on 3G, when 4G is almost here?

mar 27th, 2010

isn't there a way to simply leapfrog the 3G stage? or are there many billions tied up in obscure deals that a. raja has to harvest before he loses his job? the 3G tender has been delayed again and again and again. reminds me of the time a. raja 'preponed' (nice indianism) the 2G tender by one week without notice to eliminate undesirable bidders :-) what a brazen jerk! of all the UPA's components the DMK and its pals take the cake (although the mohammedan fundamentalist e ahamed of IUML comes close).

from good morning silicon valley:

4G whiz: Sprint's Android superphone and other mobile news: With the CTIA Wireless Show going on now in Las Vegas, the air is thick with phone news. Here's a quick roundup of the highlights:

* Sprint will be bringing the first 3G/4G phone to market this summer in the form of the Android-based HTC EVO 4G, and a lovely form it is, according to those who got an early look. The handset, built to take advantage of the home-broadband-like speed of the growing Clearwire WiMax network, features a 4.3-inch touchscreen, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a gig of built-in memory and 512MB of RAM, an 8 megapixel camera able to capture HD video and a front-facing 1.3 megapixel camera for making video calls, as well as the ability to serve as a mobile hotspot for up to eight Wi-Fi devices.

5 comments:

psudo said...

So that all they can dump all 3G equiment to india.As they always do dump any thing old to india.

sansk said...

Somehow, DMK always seem to get telecom ministry in central government. Maybe they have learnt that money is to be made after realizing that telecom ministers are found with crores of cash under their bed.

3G is outdated technology. Were operators not so short of money (thanks to government auction of spectrum of 3G) 4G would already be here.

Moscow already has 4G network.

Anonymous said...

This phone is absolutely gorgeous. It puts the iphone to shame. Seriously.

I just had a look at the HTC HD2 sold by T-Mobile, that has a similar form as the HTC EVO 4G. The screen is quite big at 4.3 inches. It fits into my hand nicely. Since the size is big, the on screen keyboard will be better than that on the iphone. It has every feature anyone would ever need.

I am very pleased with my current samsung android device, but I like the newer HTC EVO as well.

With a phone like this offered by all carriers, iphone will have some very serious competition in the coming months and years.

Hitanshu said...

Unrelated topic. About the whole modi affair, I remembered a funny line from the animated movie Team America. There is some bad language here so I am warning the moderator before hand. Could not resist communicating it.

The hero of the movie is sadly conveying to an older guy that people think he (the hero) is a dick. The old man responds by saying something like there are three kinds of people in this world namely dicks, pussies and assholes. Pussies and assholes hate dicks because a dick fucks them hard. Although a dick does not like to fuck assholes but he has to otherwise the assholes will shit all over the face. So going by the above argument

Modi is a dick and ELM and congress are pussies and assholes.

witan said...

4G as explained in Dilbert "SO...IT'S CALLED 4G BECAUSE IT'S G-G-G-GOOD" -- This is what will happen if you put even 1G in the hands of the IDIOTS who are manning some govt posts.