Topic: 3G

January 11, 2007, 7:10 PM

Posted in: Mobile broadband

If you're wondering what's missing from the Apple iPhone and the Palm Treo 750, it could be epitomized by Nokia's N76. Calling this a multimedia device is not a stretch in the capacity (up to 2 GB on SD) and throughput department, but may be a stretch in the display department. Depicted here with a speaker, it may make a more effective selling point in the audio department. But underlying the N76, in a statistic Nokia doesn't even tout as loudly as it does its 2.4" display, is its theoretical 3.6 Mbps maximum throughput. So the choice seems to be shaping up: very fast throughput you may need a magnifying glass to appreciate, or slower throughput on a screen large enough for a user to detect just how much slower it really is.

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