Friday, March 11, 2011

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My Mobile Devices 10 Years Ago Top
Have a look at the picture on the left that I recently re-discovered. It's back from 2001 and shows the mobile devices I was using at the time. A Siemens S25 GSM mobile, no GPRS yet and a Palm III. Internet connectivity for email and some very very basic black and white web browsing over and infrared link and a circuit switched data connection (9.6 or 14.4 kbit/s) to an analog fixed line modem of an internet service provider. And that was only 10 years ago! Interesting to compare that to the gigahertz powered processors we have in mobile devices now, gigabytes of Flash RAM and display resolutions equaling that of desktop PCs of the time. This might help to understand how people where once excited about 384 kbit/s wireless connections over the future UMTS system. Look at it also from this angle next time somebody says that UMTS was a mis-design before HSDPA was put on top of it.
 

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