Wicked Problems. A wicked problem is a social or cultural problem that is difficult or impossible to solve for as many as four reasons: incomplete or contradictory knowledge, the number of people and opinions involved, the large economic burden, and the interconnected nature of these problems with other problems.
Surely you remember Iridium, Motorola Corporationâs $5 billion low-Earth-orbit debacle. Planned in the mid-1980s, the system was archaic by the time it was deployed in 1998, offering global communications from a brick-size, $3,000 phone at charges from $6 to $30 a minute.
3) The Ericsson I888 (I for International) shipped more than 4 years before the Nokia 6630 making the I888 the first global cell phone. 4) The HTC Universal may be the first 3G Windows Mobile phone, but the first phone with Windows as the OS was the Toshiba/Audiovox Thera in 2002.