Short Answer: It's faster, so that it can handle internet better.
Long Answer:
3G is the third generation of standards and technology, superseding 2.5G. It is based on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) family of standards under the IMT-2000.[1]
3G networks enable network operators to offer users a wider range of more advanced services while achieving greater network capacity through improved spectral efficiency. Services include wide-area wireless voice telephony, video calls, and broadband wireless data, all in a mobile environment. Additional features also include HSPA data transmission capabilities able to deliver speeds up to 14.4 Mbit/s on the downlink and 5.8 Mbit/s on the uplink.
Unlike IEEE 802.11 networks, which are commonly called Wi-Fi or WLAN networks, 3G networks are wide-area cellular telephone networks that evolved to incorporate high-speed Internet access and video telephony[2]. IEEE 802.11 networks are short range, high-bandwidth networks primarily developed for data.
No, I didn't type that out.. I stole it off the internet. I personally don't see the point in all the fansy stuff on phones... I used to have texting.. while it was nice, at times it was more of a pain than just talking to someone. Now internet and such, while you can do it, I have heard of problems with people trying to actually surf the net on their phone. (I don't have it so this is just from what I have been told by my friends that spend WAY to much money on their phone plan)
Long Answer:
3G is the third generation of standards and technology, superseding 2.5G. It is based on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) family of standards under the IMT-2000.[1]
3G networks enable network operators to offer users a wider range of more advanced services while achieving greater network capacity through improved spectral efficiency. Services include wide-area wireless voice telephony, video calls, and broadband wireless data, all in a mobile environment. Additional features also include HSPA data transmission capabilities able to deliver speeds up to 14.4 Mbit/s on the downlink and 5.8 Mbit/s on the uplink.
Unlike IEEE 802.11 networks, which are commonly called Wi-Fi or WLAN networks, 3G networks are wide-area cellular telephone networks that evolved to incorporate high-speed Internet access and video telephony[2]. IEEE 802.11 networks are short range, high-bandwidth networks primarily developed for data.
No, I didn't type that out.. I stole it off the internet. I personally don't see the point in all the fansy stuff on phones... I used to have texting.. while it was nice, at times it was more of a pain than just talking to someone. Now internet and such, while you can do it, I have heard of problems with people trying to actually surf the net on their phone. (I don't have it so this is just from what I have been told by my friends that spend WAY to much money on their phone plan)
Flashing the phone makes me nervous, it fubar'd on the first 6.1 upgrade flash and i had to jump through some hoops to go back to a prev version and flash it again, I came close to having a useless piece of hardware so I'm not that keen on flashing it for something I wouldn't use anyway.
