Mobile torrents to be next big thing
THE NEXT big thing for 2008 will be mobile torrents, according to the latest reports of stargazers and readers of offal at ZDNET.
As news slows down and hacks spend most of the day recovering from PR vendor Christmas parties, thoughts turn to what will be the next big thing.
ZDNET has decided that it will be the mobile versions of the BitTorrent protocol.
These are pretty likely to appear in the Google Paranoid Android which should also appear next year.
They reckon it will bring high quality mobile content to phones for the first time.
However it is not really clear if anyone has thought this through.
There are already torrent products for mobiles and so far they have not really attracted many punters. The Windows one is on version 2.0 and a Symbian one has made it to 1.3. So far no one has noticed.
Data transfers are also still fairly slow. Broadband technology, which basically launched the torrent phenomena, is still in its infancy on mobiles. Then there is the small matter of security.
We predict that 2008 will be the year of the Service Pack, which is a bit like a six pack only less satisfying. In reality the INQ does its 2008 scrying closer to Yule.
More mystic meggery here. ยต
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Here in lovely Australia, we pay around 30c per meg for data delivered over our wonderful WAP or GPRS (ha, if you are lucky).

Thanks to our wonderful national phone provider (Telstra, http://tellthetruthtelstra.com.au) we are getting a bastardized version of 2.5G that will be (kinda) nation wide, with data costs not much better than the ones above and... completely incompatible system to any 3G phone on the market.

Just a rant, yes, but what use is a torrent client when you will pay several thousand a month for the data :/
Given the speed and cost of data transfer this puppy an't gonna bark
Currently, it is not economical to provide broadband over mobile (3G or otherwise). Therefore, the carriers charge a premium.

At some point, most of the internet will be accessed through mobile phone. Didn't the inquirer run an article saying that in Japan, computers were for old men, and everyone else accessed the internet through phones?

If mobile carriers get a ton of people signing up for a mobile web platform, they'll have to offer a fixed rate "unlimited" data plan. If not, there will be a peasant uprising.

Hopefully, the carriers get a clue before the punters drift off to some other platform.
" Here in lovely Australia, we pay around 30c per meg"
If you want to get ripped off on data try Canada.
No data plan? 5c KB (yes KB)
Got a plan? 12MB for $10 + 1c per KB over.
http://www.fido.ca/portal/en/domore/3g_mobile_internet.shtml#three
i thought we were poor but man.
i'm from romania and we have a wap unlimited data plan for 3.5E/month through an apn that provides full html content not just wap sites.
it can be used by handset only but hey, i used about 600MB last month with my e61i. that's about 0.6 eurocents/MB.
they do fcuk us up with voice, however.
cheers.