I tell ya, we Americans like to think we're ahead of the rest of the world in every respect... but technologically we are sooo far behind Asia it's not even funny. Even poorer Asian countries have more and better mobile options than we do.
That's a little bit unfair, but factually correct. While the US invented the Mobile phone, other countries benefited from being second to market, but I wouldn't ever stifle our innovation just to reap the benefits of being second to market.
Our real problem is a mobile industry that under-estimates what it's consumers are capable of and are willing to do on these high powered devices. The original owners of the infrastructure were the phone companies, so they applied the old telecom model to the mobile industry, when it required an entirely new model. This of course led to the US Telecoms protecting their bread and butter (landlines), creating a conflict that led to the suppression of mobile innovation in the States. The technology is there, the industry just refuses to open it up to it's customers.
