Martin Hotze wrote:


That's techology already in use here in Europe. Regarding cellphones and mobile
technology we are generally at least one generation in advance to the US.

there are coming up mobile phones with about up to 1 mbit/s IP-access, allowing
video phone, data transmission, etc. (calles UMTS). there are GRPS mobiles with
built in browsers (the browser technology is from Symbian), so you can go online
and surf the web. you might search the web for WAP, GRPS, UMTS, G3

This is also a cultural thing. Without a standard keyboard and a decent
screen size web service on your cell phone will never takeoff here.
Right now the camera phones are a joke. The picture quality is
horrible. I realize better camera phones are coming but this too is a
fad. I had web service for a while but you are so limited in what you
can see that it renders it worthless for the masses. All digital phones
have text messaging but it is such a pain in the ass to type out a
message that this will not takeoff either until an easier method is
found. And since I will not carry around a larger phone than the LG
VX4400 that I have now I don't know how this can be overcome.