Not many people think about power consumption or battery life when they think of mobile phones, but they’re important for an industry that drains the limited energy of a device that is primarily intended for something else – talking. “One challenge with 3G phones,” Parker said, “is that consumers trade performance for talk time. We can show designers how to get their talk times right back to what consumers are looking for or even beyond.”
For other non-content specific but still incredibly useful information here’s a breakdown of all the mobile technologies, including a comparison of the Symbian and Microsoft Mobile operating systems. This is good for people who view mobile phones as a channel rather than infrastructure and can’t tell their TDMA from their GSM.
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