^ Actually I think you mean, since the US had set up older technology, it perhaps, didn't see it necessary or economically viable to implement new technology. Reason why all other countries take ideas from us and make them better

 

Nextel was going to come out with a TV phone is like the i860 but thicker, but they are not going to make it tho. They are making a new camera phone right now and is 5 times more clear than the i860. I think is going to be callled i866 or i870 going to use 1.3 mp, I saw both in person and is pretty badass. I am not suppose to give out this info haha but I guess is ok to tell my s2ki members

 

I think we're saying the same thing. At least I meant to.

 

Yes, I understand why we are behind It may also have to do with the obscene amount of towers that are going to need to be replaced in order to upgrade an entire netword here in the U.S. whereas in Japan, the limited amount of space makes it more plausible to upgrade their networks more frequently. I still long for broadband mobile networks. It'd be nice to surf in high-speed wherever phone service is available Oh well, we'll catch up at some point.

 

Purpose of having 2 cameras is for Video Calling. Most phones that are deisgned to work on 3G networks have two cameras, simply because of the way the phone is built. Since you need to see the screen and have your face captured at the same time they just added a camera for that reason. The camera on the he back of the phone is usually of much higher quality, for taking real pictures. Pretty cool stuff if you ask me...

 

I'm waiting for the three camera version.

 

SprintPCS has offered television channels (using quicktime compression to 15FPS) for the past 6 months. Right now I believe their multimedia services are up to around 30 channels.

The U.S. is really not behind in terms of cell phone technology, however it is more expensive for carriers in this country to bundle and offer data services given the larger geographic area that must be covered -- so in some cases we do see things after they have already debuted in smaller and more cellphone centric populations (asian markets).

 

Not sure what you mean there Steve, but the networks Japan is using definetly offers more bandwith than any of the networks here....

I didn't realize Sprint was offering tv, i'll have to look into that, have you used it?

 

Not true. You can get 3 and 3.5 G services in the states, just like in Japan. Yes I have played with a couple of Sprint TV (multimedia) phones.