Comments on: Is your Windows Mobile device slow accessing the web/internet? http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/11/is_your_windows_mobile_device_slow_accessing_the_webinternet.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:09:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jim Black http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/11/is_your_windows_mobile_device_slow_accessing_the_webinternet.html/comment-page-1#comment-8391 Jim Black Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:07:47 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2006/11/is_your_windows_mobile_device_slow_accessing_the_webinternet.html#comment-8391 "But using them (3G phones) reminded me how slow 3G actually is - ISDN speed at best. What would have been blistering speed five years ago has a snail's pace feeling in todays' gigabyte world," wrote Tim Weber in a BBC article about 3's X-series announcement. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6155678.stm And that, is the heart of problem - today's consumers will not accept this poor level of performance and hit and miss user experience. But don't worry, HSDPA wil speed things up, he goes on to say. Oh bugger, I've already got a device with HSDPA. Guess I'll have to wait for 4 or 5G then. Jim “But using them (3G phones) reminded me how slow 3G actually is – ISDN speed at best. What would have been blistering speed five years ago has a snail’s pace feeling in todays’ gigabyte world,” wrote Tim Weber in a BBC article about 3′s X-series announcement.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6155678.stm

And that, is the heart of problem – today’s consumers will not accept this poor level of performance and hit and miss user experience.

But don’t worry, HSDPA wil speed things up, he goes on to say.

Oh bugger, I’ve already got a device with HSDPA.

Guess I’ll have to wait for 4 or 5G then.

Jim

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