| Refurbished and Used Cell Phones are capable of | | | | more callers - and video will be transferred a lot |
| 3G and 4G speeds while costing less than | | | | smoother, thanks to the wider bandwidth. Those |
| comparable technology that's come straight from | | | | devices will have wireless internet in bandwidths |
| the factory. Refurbished BlackBerry Cell Phones | | | | wider than that used by 2G technologies, never |
| are very inexpensive compared to their | | | | before seen in a mobile phone - 100MHz; which will |
| brand-new counterparts, even though they run on | | | | also cut costs on large data transfers, and will |
| the latest technologies like 3G and 4G. | | | | make video and music downloads cheaper. New |
| About 85% of the world's cellular phone users are | | | | security features will help better protect users |
| running on either 2G or 3G technology. Though | | | | from theft and fraud, and network security will |
| considered relatively slow, with limited data rates, | | | | get much tighter. |
| 2G is preferred by over 70% of the cellular | | | | Data transfer speed reaches new levels with the |
| network market. | | | | new technology: up to 1Gbps (!). Some features |
| In the last few years, new networking | | | | that were supposed to be included with 4G seem |
| technologies are being developed to offer faster | | | | as if they were taken from a sci-fi movie about |
| data transfer in competitive rates and a wider | | | | the future. Researchers are working on features |
| bandwidth - such as 3G. 3G offers up to 2Mbps | | | | that would allow the cell phone user to know the |
| data transfer speed, but practically speaking its | | | | direction from which the call is coming and how |
| max speed is closer to 400kbps. Three quarters | | | | far away the caller is. Also, we will be able to |
| of cell phone users still prefer 2G over the new | | | | speak using our other senses as well, or without |
| networking technology. That might change soon. | | | | having to use our vocal cords at all. These |
| HP and a Japanese development company, NTT | | | | features will probably not be ready in time for the |
| DoCoMo, are developing a new technology, 4G. It | | | | launching of 4G, but developers promise "they'll |
| is estimated that 4G technology will be launched in | | | | come in time for 5G." |
| Japan in the next 6 years. There aren't enough | | | | Meanwhile, until we get 4G technology in the |
| details about this new technology so we can't | | | | United States, we will soon have a kind of |
| really compare it to anything we have now, but it | | | | in-between technology dubbed super 3G. There's |
| looks like it's going to be a lot faster, using wider | | | | not much information about this technology, |
| bandwidth, and cheaper - or in one word: BETTER. | | | | besides that it is planned to have a high speed |
| Whad we DO know about 4G is that with 4G, we | | | | data transfer of up to 100Mbps. |
| will be able to make a video conference call - 3 or | | | | |