4G phones

Fancy a mobile phone that is a doctor, an interpreter and enables two-way video communication. Even as we wait for 3G mobile phones to take off that kind of vision would indeed seem too farfetched.

But mobile-users in Japan and Korea could get their x-ray images examined by their doctor and feedback available on a mobile phone by about 2010. That’s when 4G (fourth generation) mobile services will take off.

The new applications — like healthcare on the move — will be on 4G as it will enable ultra high-speed data transfers at over 100 megabits per second. Nokia has come up with a 4G mobile phone design where you will actually wear the phone as a wristband. The wrist phone can work independently as a phone or work with a bluetooth style headpiece.

The wrist piece could be used to pay metro fare, compare prices of holiday packages, make a call or just pay for a movie ticket. On the other hand, Samsung wants to use 4G phones as interpreters and portable doctors.

Source: ET