Here’s a question: Over the past couple of months, how many times have you heard the expression “3G?” You have probably heard it at least a thousand times, because every ad and every article for the new iPhone has called it the “3G iPhone.” The obvious question: What is 3G? In order to understand 3G, it is helpful to get in a time machine and go back to 1983. There, we would be able to see the birth of the first commercial cell phone systems in the United States. It was the age of the big cells phones: the car phone, the bag phone and the brick phone.
