NEC’s new HSDPA high speed mobile phone has been demonstrated by Japanese cellco DoCoMo.  The new prototype phone was shown transferring a 5MB file over FTP in 14 seconds. That’s 3.2Mbps - not quite the theoretical peak of 3.6Mbps that HSDPA is capable of, but still incredibly fast for a mobile phone. And think carefully about those numbers.  The difference between 3.6Mbps and 3.2Mbps seems small enough to ignore, but it’s still 400kbps: faster than most data services on the market today. A new era of mobile phone services beckons.