N73 3g? Usa? Cingular?

You can surf fine on EDGE. The speed is good, great with a proxied browser like opera mini.

Video calls... I think the popularity of this is falling by the wayside. In Europe I know they "can" do it, but with the phones I have seen that lack front mounted cameras I am debating how many do do it. I figure it's one of those things that is cool at first, and then completely pointless after a month of usage. To each their own though.

Slingbox. We had slingbox working on an MDA off of Tmobile's edge inside our office. Full screen wasn't that great, but normal size provided very little stuttering and worked fine. I was impressed. 3G would make it better, but it's not impossible now.

I would like 3G and I am all for it coming out. I just know that it's not going to be widescale/dependable for a bit of time. We are on a different band than europe and a number of years behind. I am just taking it in stride and saying "at least we have EDGE".
 
Video calls are also much more expensive, from what I heard. I thought it would be a cool idea too, but really, it'd get kinda awkward and you'd only want to do it with a select few people.
 
Wirelessly posted (Nokia 6680 GSM/W-CDMA: Nokia6680/1.0 (5.04.07) SymbianOS/8.0 Series60/2.6 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1)

According to the statement that EDGE is not so much slower than UMTS: ESPECIALLY while browsing on the mobile web the much higher latency of EDGE annoys me. 3G is for mobile browsing much more comfortable.
 
Someone I know made a Video call from Europe to the Phillapines and it was no more expensive than a normal international call for him, of course it depends on the carrier. I couldn't see myself using video calling much if ever, but I'd like to try it just for kicks. How ironic is that video calling never caught on for landline phones, even now with high speed data networks, but are going to be a common feature for 3G mobile phone.
 
Its all about the bandwidth.

Analog lines can barely hit 56kbps.

Video conferencing on "telephones" still involves ISDN, not POTS.

Video conferencing over IP is a lot easier to do, since most people have broadband available to them. Mobile data services are already ahead of POTS data service. It can only get faster. All the big telcos are moving their core operations to IP and VOIP so that they can use big bandwidth instead of POTS/copper.
 
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