#WHEN DID 4G COME OUT ANDROID#

New bands were reserved especially for 3G and auctioned off around the world for incredible sums of money and whilst they were largely bought up by the ones we knew like Orange, O2 and Vodafone, new players also came forward such as '3'.ДЈG is a vastly different technology to GPRS. However 3G was here and was touted as the answer to all of our problems. It's now 2002 and up until now things were still pretty slow and GPRS technology was aging badly, in the way it worked and the speeds and reliability it could offer. Blackberry at least had enough of a USP to keep going, but once they messed that one thing up in later years that was pretty much the end for them too.

#WHEN DID 4G COME OUT ANDROID#

Nokia never rebounded from the impact of the iPhone, Windows Mobile was exposed as what it really was, a B2B Enterprise OS (which it did a stirling job of for years I might add) and Android was but a twinkle in Sergey Brins eye. So despite only still having a rubbish GPRS/Edge connection the iPhone soldiered on and changed the way we used smartphones forever. This meant 'all you can eat' data, voice and text plans, but essentially the data plan was what drove things forward. The clever part was that Steve Jobs ensured that the iPhone was only available on certain networks, O2 I remember here in the UK, and that meant he could impose Apples GPRS requirements onto them. You see Apple made their money from the app store in the short term and in time they knew that this would turn into an eco system which would ultimately become world domination of mobile and they pretty much got there. What Steve and Apple saw was an opportunity that the current mobile device makers weren't seeing.ДЄpple saw that a product like the iPhone was needed, however they also understood that it would be nothing without data. You see Steve Jobs is often commended for the technology he brought to us, but actually it's always the thinking behind them, that's the clever part. I watched the presentation live and could hardly believe my eyes! The iPhone was suddenly released and this is a significant event for a few reasons. Neither knew what to do next and the devices sure proved that. Apple and the iPhoneД«efore 3G came along, it's fair to say that mobile networks were languishing in a mirky pool of Nokia and Windows Mobile. This would lay the foundation for what was to come next, which would change the mobile world as we knew it. 2G would not let you call and use data at the same time, however 2.5G would, soДЇor the first time you could be on a call but also downloading data in the background. However the real change in 2.5G came about in how it worked. Edge was essentially the same technology as GPRS, but it was kind of duplexed across multiple channels, so this meant you could see speeds of up to 400kbps in theory. Well they were phones, what do you expect!Дў.5G or EDGE as it was known came next. Phones were used for calling, communicating and also for getting our HP Jornada's online via modem technology but not much else. So while we jest, this was where it all started. It was originally invented as a way for telecoms engineers to just send quick messages to each other to test and communicate over the networks they were checking, but it soon became a lot morer than that! In fact texting, which dominated as the most successful mobile technology for decades, came about by pure accident. Soon the digital networks were released and suddenly we started to text each other and this was kind of like the birth of 1G or sending data over the network. We were using new technology in an old way, but what did we know! little did we know what was to come. OK, so seriously though this was when we didn't even have digital networks, so phone calls were like patchy and sometimes almost like you were on a CB radio. 'SPEAK' to each other and do it when you're on the bus, in the park or even in the pub! But promise me one thing, make yourself really annoying and make your conversations about where you both are, exactly at the time of the call!!! Don't know what i'm on about then sit tight, i'm going to tell you a story! There was once a land where no-one had a mobile phone, but soon the god of Nokia came along and said Anyone else here remember life before we had mobile networks? Yes.well this is going to be trip down memory lane for you.

When did 4g come out