3G equipment

The development of new third generation mobile technologies forces hi-tech manufacturers create new and more advanced mobile gadgets, mobile phones of various types to meet the expectations of users and receive more income. That's why hundreds of new telephone models supporting third generation technologies, coupled with tens of other amazing features like touch screens (or even multitouch screens), wireless connection via Bluetooth and IrDA, mp3 players, mp4 video players, and what not are being introduced at high-tech exhibitions and various forums every years. For some of us it may become unclear, how the fast data transfer that the third generation system offers us may be effectively used by a mobile phone. Indeed, although the handsets are being improved every year, their characteristics are still far from those of a regular computer. For example, we can't download and store loads of information on a mobile phone because its memory is equal to only about one hundredth or in some cases one thousandth of the space of a regular hard disk used in a computer or a laptop. Besides, although phones are getting bigger, brighter and better screens, they still yield considerably to the size of even the smallest of the existing computer screens. It leads to certain inconveniences while, say, browsing the internet via the mobile device – you can't get the whole picture most of the time and must peer through a "small hole" that the mobile screen looks like at a broader picture of the website. Another drawback is the interface technologies – a microscopic joystick on a mobile phone can get really annoying when you want to quickly look through a webpage or type in your name or password in any field etc. And here you may ask yourself: "why do I need these super-fast technologies if I'm not even able to use one tenth of its potential?" If you do ask this question then it means you're unfamiliar with all the possibilities that the third generation technologies offer. 3G means not only technologies for small handheld devices like mobile phones, PDA's or smarthpones, but also for any computer whatsoever. That's why mobile telephone manufacturers are adding the feature called a wireless modem to their devices. Wireless modem in a telephone is a feature that enables you to connect your laptop or your PC to a wireless internet network. Mobile phones, PDA's, smartphones can all be used as wireless access points creating connection of your computer to the internet. All you need is to set up all the necessary adjustments in the phone, install special software onto your computer and create a usual dial-up connection indicating your mobile device as a modem (of course the word dial-up here doesn't mean you'll be limited to the speed of conventional dial-up – the 3G connection may get a hundred times as fast). The device may be connected to your computer in various ways, including simply plugging your phone's data cable into the computer's USB port, or using technologies of local wireless data transfer like Bluetooth or IrDA or even Wi-Fi. Besides mobile phones, the feature of mobile modems is also available in the form of separate devices designed only for this purpose – they may look like usual dial-up modems or be much smaller and lighter, for example like a USB dongle, or a PCMCIA card. If such devices have the VoIP feature, you will be able to make and receive VoIP calls by using your computer.