It’s a good thing that the phone technology from Japan won’t reach the US for some time. I mean, what would people do with all that bandwidth? Just get into trouble no doubt. This should give the lawyers at the RIAA nightmares about all the P2P that will be going on via cell phones.
In experiments, prototype phones were used to view 32 high definition video streams, while travelling in an automobile at 20 kilometres per hour. Officials from NTT DoCoMo say the phones could receive data at 100 megabits per second on the move and at up to a gigabit per second while static. At this rate, an entire DVD could be downloaded within a minute. DoCoMo’s current 3G (third generation) phone network offers download speeds of 384 kilobits per second and upload speeds of 129 kilobits per second.
[via gadgets.fosfor.se ]
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