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Will ever 3G and 4G be initiated in Pakistan ? – Smartphones ahead of the set up

E-mailWritten by Administrator Friday, 04 February 2011 23:40

3G 4GOne after another smartphones are making their moves and comes towards the set of Pakistan, but where in the world will ever 3G and 4G tech be initiated in Pakistan ? No doubt, that cellular industry have made remarkable distinctions and pulled their best to bring in vast range of smartphones to the masses which are capable of running on 3G and 4G, respectively, but there are no words and hasn’t yet commenced the set up to provide 3G and 4G tech support by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) that if they are about to finally launch the 3G and 4G scale in the state, or not.

PTA is all laying down to get underway 3G and carrying out discussion groups and meetings to bring to light its importance, nevertheless the tangible sale of bandwidth to cellular machinists is thus far to have effect, they alleged. Cellular corporations are unwilling to settle on the 3G, due to high authorize charge and partial consumer stand, diligence managerial brought under consideration.

For the simple explanation that 3G and 4G technology obliges frequencies so as to nip on smartphones, which are quite pricey and each one cannot meet the expense of these handsets.

When 4G technology has made its way all around the world than, it had been far late to launch the 3G technology so that, there is an aimless and purposeless target for cellular industries to focus to meet the prospectus of the newer mobile phone technology.

Keeping in view the that cellular operators are unwilling to go for 3G technology at contemporary circumstances, Mobilink has instigated HD 7 smartphone and Samsung has also made an appreciable step towards the smartphone set up by introducing its Galaxy Tab in Pakistan. But the issue still stands that if 3G isn’t yet introduced in Pakistan than what’s the purpose of Mobilink to launch such competent smartphone, than they have their intentions right to pull down the high speed Internet connectivity by means of their EDGE supported network in alternate to 3G but all that video call and high speed Internet requires 3G and 4G frequencies in the first place.

The entire SMS and IVR based Services are accessible without 3G so as the WI FI is also supported in the Mobilink’s smartphone HD7. However, it lacks of video conferencing and high definition videos due to require of 3G and 4G frequency in the country but you can exploit your phone’s functions entailing high bandwidth. It would have been much better for the consumers to fully experience the best usage of smartphones if 3G and 4G would have been introduced.

On the other hand, mobile phone manufacturers are by now doing their level best to manufacture reasonably priced smartphones so that the novel technology ought to accomplish a better fragment of progress. Various companies have formerly stepped in to introduce smartphones sorting between Rs.12,000 to Rs.15,000, which sounds quite reasonable but 3G’s and 4G’s touch could have made it a far more better approach.


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BlackBerry roadmap leaks, touch screens, HD video and NFC ahead

We just found some slides with juicy information about BlackBerry's 2011 lineup. Spoiler alert: there's a couple of (thinner) touch phones incoming and the OS is getting modernized with better graphics, browser, video and so on.

These slides show the CDMA versions, but the specs should be similar to the GSM variants - some of the listed handsets are even dual-mode (CDMA/GSM) phones.

Starting off with the BlackBerry Monaco Touch. It looks a lot like the previously leaked images of the BB Storm 3. The phone runs BlackBerry OS 6.1 on a 1.2GHz Qualcomm processor and 768MB RAM. It has a 3.7" WVGA capacitive touchscreen (with 253DPI) and all this is packed in 11.5mm thickness.


BlackBerry Monaco Touch and a ponential version with physical, instead of capacitive keys

The Monaco Touch is primarily a CDMA phone with EV-DO data connectivity, but also offers quad-band EDGE and single-band UMTS, for roaming purposes most likely. Another interesting feature is the 5MP camera, which can record 720p video.

There's a second slide titled "Monaco Key ID Updates" - it's not quite clear what that's about, but it the hardware keys are physical instead of capacitive. Other than that, it seems to be the same phone.

Next up is the BlackBerry Bold Touch (a.k.a. Montana). It too has GSM/EDGE/UMTS connectivity and a 1.2GHz CPU and 768MB RAM, 5MP camera with 720p video and it's even thinner - 10.5mm. The screen is 2.8" with VGA resolution for the impressive 287DPI.


BlackBerry Bold Touch (Montana)

The BlackBerry Sedona and Curve Touch have similar specs, except that the Sedona is a QWERTY bar, while the Curve Touch is a touch phone. Both the BlackBerry Curve Touch and the Sedona are powered by 800MHz CPUs with 512MB RAM. The displays have the older HVGA resolution and the cameras are 5MP (the Curve Touch can record 720p video).

The Sedona would likely be known as BlackBerry Dakota in its GSM form, while the Curve Touch will be the BlackBerry Curve Apollo for its GSM version. On the other hand, it looks a lot like the Storm3 too.


BlackBerry Sedona ? BlackBerry Curve Touch

All these phones have Wi-Fi and GPS built-in and all but the Monaco Touch pack NFC. They support Wi-Fi hotspot functionality too, thanks to BlackBerry OS 6.1.

Here are a couple of other new things in v6.1 - 24-bit color support, OpenGL acceleration for 3D graphics, optimized WebKit-based browser with fast JavaScript, plus other goodies.


New features in BlackBerry OS 6.1

The roadmap leaked too so we know when to expect these new phones - the Monaco Touch and the Bold Touch (Montana) are expected in Q3 of 2011, the Sedona should hit in early Q3 and finally, there's a "Malibu" phone (which may be the Curve Touch) for early 2012.


BlackBerry leaked roadmap

Overall, things are shaping nicely for the BlackBerry device portfolio. If only they could hurry up with the releases.

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