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- Where old cellphones were literally 'mobile phones' (wireless landlines), modern smartphones are essentially pocket computers that just happen to make phone calls. You can see just how much phones have changed internally in the photos in the box below.
- My phone - a Sony Ericsson V640i has HSDPA and it's top speed appears to be about 1.4Mbps, which is about 4x the standard 3G speed of about 0.36Mbps. That means it can download a 3MB music track in under 30 seconds. 3G takes over a minute and 2.5G seems to take forever. But Vodafone HSDPA on a laptop is about 5 times faster than on mobile phone.
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Text Messaging is a fairly new phenomenon that has revolutionized how we use cell phones. Almost all phones now come with basic text messaging capabilities. This allows users to send short text messages to another persons phone. Text messages are basically just mobile email and can save considerable time versus making a phone call. Texting can be very useful for sending short questions or bits of information. However, as with any medium, advertisers are now starting to find their way into your phones. Be very careful with giving out your cellular number to sites and services you don't feel comfortable with or your phone could end up in the hands of an advertiser.
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In mobile communications, frequently, the terms GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSPA and LTE appear. These terms refer to different standards of data transfer and are noticeable for the mobile phone user mainly in a different data transfer rate. In this table, I have I contrasted the different standards:
Shortcut | Name | Download | Upload | Display |
GSM | Global System for Mobile Communications | 14,4 Kbit/s | 14,4 Kbit/s | 2G |
GPRS | General Packet Radio Service | 53,6 Kbit/s | 26,8 Kbit/s | G |
EDGE | Enhanced Data Rate for GSM Evolution | 217,6 Kbit/s | 108,8 Kbit/s | E |
UMTS | Universal Mobile Telelcommunication Service | 384 Kbit/s | 128 Kbit/s | 3G |
HSPA | High Speed Packet Access | 7,2 Mbit/s | 3,6 Mbit/s | H |
HSPA+ | Evolved High Speed Packet Access Release 6 | 14,4 Mbit/s | 5,76 Mbit/s | H+ |
HSPA+ | Evolved High Speed Packet Access Release 7 | 21,1 Mbit/s oder 28,0 Mbit/s | 11,5 Mbit/s | H+ |
HSPA+ | Evolved High Speed Packet Access Release 8 | 42,2 Mbit/s | 11,5 Mbit/s | H+ |
HSPA+ | Evolved High Speed Packet Access Release 9 | 84,4 Mbit/s | 11,5 Mbit/s | H+ |
HSPA+ | Evolved High Speed Packet Access Release 10 | 168,8 Mbit/s | 23,0 Mbit/s | H+ |
LTE | Long Term Evolution | 100 Mbit/s | 50 Mbit/s | 4G |
LTE-A | LTE Advanced | 1 Gbit/s | 500 Mbit/s | 4G |
5G | 5th Generation Wireless Systems | 20 Gbit/s | 10 Gbit/s | 5G |
In the 'Name' column, you will find the long name for each abbreviation. Under 'Download' and 'Upload', the maximum download and upload speeds that can be reached with the standards are listed. Under 'Display', you can see how the standard is usually displayed in the status bar of the cell phone, when it is connected to the appropriate network.
Note for HSPA: The standard HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) is divided into High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) for downloading and High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) for uploading data.
Note for HSPA+: As you can see, there are several releases in the HSPA+ development increasing the speed. Technically, this is achieved by using a higher order modulation, the multiple antenna technique (also known as multiple input and multiple output technique, MIMO), or by combining multiple cells (Dual Carier, Dual Cell HSDPA). Of course, in practice, those high speeds are hard to achieve. They are only accessible under best conditions, for example if you are the only one in a particular cell. So, you should better refer to the Release 6 or 7 speeds when seeing a H+ in your display.
Development of standards and networks
At the beginning of the digital mobile phone age, there was only the GSM network as a replacement for analog systems. According to this, GSM is also called 2G, the second generation. Gradually, new, better and fast systems developed. GPRS and EDGE also use the GSM network, the higher speeds of EDGE is the result of an improved technology. The third generation is the UMTS network (3G). Again, on the 3G network, the improvements HSPA (H) and HSPA+ (H+) are based, allowing faster transfer rates in the 3G network. Finally, the fourth generation named LTE (4G) was presented, which again brings a significant increase in transfer rates.
In theory, in the individual standards higher rates are possible technically, in practice, often not even the values from the table are reached, since there are rarely existing ideal conditions.
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