The iPhone and the Google Android platform, which was finally shown-off (sort of) in Barcelona this week, aren’t mobile telephones.
They are Internet clients.
Internet clients use exponentially more data bandwidth than ordinary digital phones, which use thin streams of compressed data. Maybe several exponentials.
Operators are thinking of expanding their networks into homes and offices to handle the extra load.
The Android clients shown in Barcelona aren’t much. What they mainly prove is that the specification can be built and deployed quickly.
While the Apple iPhone roll-out has gone at a predictable pace, with one vendor delivering specified numbers to a handful of networks, the Android roll-out will be far more helter-skelter.
That’s because the Android is designed to work anywhere, first on any GSM network and then, with a little tinkering, anywhere else
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