Internet on mobile-requirements of a good internet ready phone

An Internet ready phone is the need of the most of the people. Now internet is not confined to desktops and laptops but it is accessible through hand held devices like mobile phones. Lots of mobile phone applications based on the internet demand good bandwidth. The speed must be very fast for applications like video streaming and live TV. Speed provided by 2G is good for e-mails or small data transfer application. But applications like video streaming and live TV need high download speed.
Only high speed internet can provide the pleasure of accessing the internet in the mobile. It can be achieved by using the 3G network. 3G can provide the downlink of 3MBps. Videos can watched as if watching in the TV without waiting for minutes for streaming.
Experiencing the internet on a mobile will be entirely different from the one in computer. Mobile phone has limitation on its screen size and the resolution. While buying a mobile phone for an internet application one should consider this feature. To enjoy the browsing a descent screen size is very important. A 5.6cm Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) is suitable for mobile internet. If the screen size is very small it will be difficult to scroll and watch the whole page. A phone with touch screen will be preferred for internet mobile internet. It helps in the better navigation.
Most of the web applications today use java and flash contents. The mobile phone operating system should support java, flash and other applications that are needed for modern web. Usually mobile phones with internet facility will support java. Flash Lite software is needed to view the online videos.
The mobile phone browsers also plays very important role in a good internet ready mobile phone. A good browser should have facilities like multi tabs, zoom, and compressed downloads for faster browsing and book marks. Opera mobile offers multi tab features while opera mini compression for fast browsing. Google android and safari provide rich display of websites. Mozilla Minimo and Microsoft IE for mobiles are other popular mobile web browsers.
Most of the people in India use 2G supported GPRS/EDGE to access the internet. GPRS speed will be around 25 to 40kbps. This data rate depends on the network strength, mobile phone and traffic. If you have a 3G handset and using 2G gprs then also you will get the almost same speed.
There are different technologies in the GSM and CDMA standards that work in 3G spectrum to offer different uplink and downlink data rate. The Wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) of GSM provide maximum downlink speed of 384kBps. High speed download packet access (HSDPA) extends and improve WCDMA taking into higher speed.
Nokia N70, N73, Motorazr V3XX, LG Ku990 are some phones which support WCDMA. Latest 3G phones like Apple iPhones, Nokia N96/N97/E71, Samsung Omnia and HTC touch are HSDPA phones.

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