3G FOCUS
All aboard the apps bandwagon
3G is all about the things that can make your mobile life more convenient.
- Published: 12 Oct 2012 at 10.54
- Newspaper section: Business
Despite the hardware wars and the multi-billion-dollar lawsuits over operating systems, a 3G phone without attractive applications is not really more useful than an 800-baht mobile with a 1-2-Call SIM.
A lot of 3G devices are not even telephones at all, tablets being the obvious proof but not the only ones.
Hand it to Apple (again), that Steve Jobs and his engineers turned out a lovely piece of equipment with the iPhone, but the only thing that set it apart from everything else was the ability to download, install and use software, pretty much just like a personal computer.
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