T3 in Tokyo: World’s first 4G phone!
Next-gen mobile special! The year is 2015 and your handset doubles as a portal into a new world.
T3 gets up close with NTT Do Co Mo's 4G vision of the future... [more images]Tokyo truly is another planet. It’s a place where Harajuku girls look like pretty space pirates carrying the sweetest mobile phones capable of far more than you or I are used to. And it’s here in this sexy tech nirvana that the future of phones is being built, by Japan’s leading telecom company, NTT DoCoMo. I got rare exclusive access to their headquarters for a peek into what we can expect from our phones in less than a decade courtesy of 4G!

How’s this for starters? Download speeds of around 1GB per second! Yep, that’s what’s currently in the pipeline, which means enough content to sink the Titanic being pumped into your handset before you can say “whoa!”

Don’t mistake this for flamboyant Western dick-swinging, because this is Japan where modesty is part of the genetic make up. No, NTT DoCoMo believes in their future vision of 4G. So much so that they even have a prototype handset (pictured) and service set up at their headquarters to demonstrate what 4G will be like.

Granted the handset is anvil-sized, but it does house a pair of 3D goggles that slide out of the bottom. I put them up to my face and turn to a building projected on a screen in front of me. It’s an aquarium. There’s an invisible code on the building that the handset can read, so when I press a button all the information on the aquarium is delivered in an instant, including ticket purchase options, area info, and a lot, lot more…

See, when I download the info, 3D images of fish in the aquarium appear before my eyes floating through the real world I’m looking at, superimposed before my very eyes!

I’m looking though the 3D goggles as a dolphin and a school of fish swim past mixed with reality. It’s a real trip but phenomenal. But that’s just the half of it, because when I look at any of these creatures it instantly recognises what I’m looking at via built-in sensors. And then if I hit a button while looking at something it pulls up a hub of information on that particular sea creature. It’s a lot to take in, but definitely a world I want to be a part of.

The demo is amazing, though a bit on the pantomime side of serious, but the point is that 4G promises to deliver so much content into our handsets and lives at such ridiculously blink-quick speeds that it creates a new way of looking at the world.

This information was taken from http://www.t3.co.uk/news/247/communications/mobile_phone/t3_in_tokyo_worlds_first_4g_phone!