Next-Gen Mobile Phones: Vision vs. Reality

At the ITU telecom-fest in Hong Kong, everyone wants to create a super, do-all, mobile phone. But no one can agree on which network standard to use

Mobile phones are destined to evolve into all-purpose digital appliances that will pack awesome processing power and operate at blistering data speeds that will seamlessly connect to the Internet and handle such tricks as video streaming on 30 or more channels.

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