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When people talk about the future of wireless communication, they sometimes speak of 4G, which is short for Fourth Generation Communications System. This is a still pretty much undefined area of wireless communications, but simply put, it means fast data, voice, and streaming content everywhere you go at any time. And so its also the topic of much interest for wireless companies, such as AT&T and Verizon, which just announced some of their goals for the bigger, better, faster wireless Internet. 

Chrysler is looking to pick up its sagging sales by being the first to offer in-car Internet access in the U.S. Later this year, an unspecified mobile broadband (read: cellular data) radio will be offered as an option on Chrysler vehicles, with the goal of making it standard on all of the company's cars down the road. 

>AT&T CEO, Randall Stephenson, told Bloomberg that the 3G iPhone that we had all hoped for is coming next year. Most of us expected the addition of near-broadband data capability to the iPhone, but confirmation such as this lets us rest easy since the device's current slower EDGE network (for surfing the Web and getting e-mail) is so five years ago! No date or any specifics are known beyond that, but presumably the phone will run on the same HSDPA network that the new BlackJack II uses.
Stephenson cited battery life as the reason the first generation was saddled with the pokey EDGE data network, saying that 3G chipsets are "real power hogs." Stephenson says the faster download speeds of AT&T's HSDPA network will come as battery technology improves, and hopes to get the talk time back up in the five-hours-plus range.
What does this mean for you? Well, if you haven't bought an iPhone already and can wait up to a year for the latest and greatest, you should definitely hold off! This is a real boon to anybody who's got a year left on their Sprint, T-Mobile or Verizon Wireless accounts.
From Bloomberg (via Engadget)
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One of the iPhone's major shortfalls is the fact that it runs on AT&T's aging EDGE network, which, in terms of download speeds, pales in comparison to true 3G networks such as Verizon's EVDO. You ever notice how the ads showing the iPhone's Web capabilities never show the actual loading of an Internet page? That's because it would be embarrassing!
The newly re-branded AT&T (formerly Cingular) is certainly coming out swinging, first locking down exclusivity on the iPhone for a whopping five years, and now scoring exclusivity on Samsung's latest two models. The svelte SGH-a717 and SGH-a727 models look sophisticated with their matte black skins, and both feature similar specs. 





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