Mobile Networks, Gadgets, Security, is it what we're waiting for?
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It's been almost a year and a half since we heard the first rumblings about 3G, multimedia enhanced mobile phones. Is it everything we were waiting for? Well, that depends, but as a proof-of-concept we definitely like where the manufacturers are going with this.
Slowly we get to see operators taking steps to slowly launch their 3G networks, while we are still far from what we all are expecting from, it's kind of funny how easy Korean electronics companies make it look—SK Teletech obviously saw the Sidekick, probably had a good laugh at our pathetic gesturing, and then whipped up the IMB-1000. You're going to want to throw your phone out when you hear that this thing's got EV-DO, DMB satellite video, a 2.4-inch 260k color QVGA touchscreen, stereo speakers, 2-megapixel digital camera, MP3 player, and 100MB of internal memory.
Imagine this, your Astro subscription accessible through this baby! you're going to get busy! Satellite video, a camera...mp3..and of course, the internet. This, however will soon be a reality in Korea, on the other hand, Finland, are talking about Visual Radio service.
Already a reality in Finland, Nokia and HP have finally convinced someone—in this case, Infinity Broadcasting—to bring their new Visual Radio technology to the US. We know it's hard to get too worked up about anything related to FM radio these days, but the deal with Visual Radio is that it lets you stream information on the currently playing track, including album art and tour information, directly to your FM radio-equipped cellphone. It's being pitched as a way for terrestrial FM broadcasters to fight back against satellite and Internet radio (how about trying fewer commercials and better music?), as well as make a little extra coin selling concert tickets, ringtones, etc. directly to listeners. Should start rolling out over here sometime in the middle of next year.
As we know it, mobile phones today reaches out to any age group,any parent will tell you, kids love phones too. The entertainment and telecom industries are hard at work creating media properties that will have the kids demanding real phones. Teleteubbies creator Anne Wood, Sesame Street's interactive division, Disney and Warner Brothers are among the companies with plans to roll out kid-friendly videos that will play back on 3G services . (After all, if there's one thing kids love more than phones, it's TV.) "It's certainly not like we're advocating selling phones to preschoolers," J. Paul Marcum of Sesame Street told The New York Times. "But you can't ignore the convenience factor when people are in motion. A parent can pass back a telephone to the kids in the back of the car. And it's a device that families are going to carry with them everywhere." And as savvy marketers know, hook 'em young and they're yours for life.
After all the hypes of alternative networks, ( really, look at it, we've got CDMA, EDGE, 3G, WiBRO, WiMAX, Satellite) the sky is the limit for gadgets, while manufacturers are teasing us for the latest of their products, sooner or later, there will be a need for security features for other services, given example, LG's rolling out their latest handset with a built-in biometric fingerprint scanner, the LG-LP3550, which also has a 3.24 megapixel digital camera, MP3 playback software, dual 3D stereo speakers, and miniSD card slot. The fingerprint scanner (the likes of which we've seen before on cellphones) actually isn't there to stop someone else from simply using your phone, it's actually there for authorizing transactions and protecting your personal data when you're doing wireless online banking, somethig which is just starting to catch on in South Korea.
What will we expect for the next few years? while our local operators are slowly showing progress, other countries are way ahead of time, wonder what we will expect after the service are officially launched, and will other alternative networks affect the progress of the much anticipated 3G services in Malaysia?
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