At the ITU telecom-fest in Hong Kong, everyone wants to create a super, do-all, mobile phone. But no one can agree on which network standard to use. The current collective big think at the ITU Telecom World 2006 forum in Hong Kong goes something like this. Mobile phones are destined to evolve into all-purpose digital appliances (think veritable computers in your pocket) that will pack awesome processing power and operate at blistering data speeds that will seamlessly connect to the Internet and handle such tricks as video streaming on 30 or more channels.

Story link