Why is it that some improvements in phone technology get all this hype and others don't?
I vaguely remember 3G being a big deal marketing thing, but I have no memory of a 4G or a 2G, or even, come to that, 1G. I suppose 1G phones were just cell-phones, but did they skip straight to 3G? Maybe they retrospectively defined some improvement in the original phone system as '2G' so the new models could be 3G? Then did they jump straight to 5G or was there a 4G hype campaign that I missed?
Why do they get labelled with these discrete G numbers, when surely the improvements are largely incremental and continuous? I mean, frequency and bandwidth are both continuous quantities. What's the reason for lumping them into 'generations'?
I vaguely remember 3G being a big deal marketing thing, but I have no memory of a 4G or a 2G, or even, come to that, 1G. I suppose 1G phones were just cell-phones, but did they skip straight to 3G? Maybe they retrospectively defined some improvement in the original phone system as '2G' so the new models could be 3G? Then did they jump straight to 5G or was there a 4G hype campaign that I missed?
Why do they get labelled with these discrete G numbers, when surely the improvements are largely incremental and continuous? I mean, frequency and bandwidth are both continuous quantities. What's the reason for lumping them into 'generations'?