if its the top 100 citys, like the artice said, mine will finaly get 3g! which doesnt matter since the iphone doesnt have 3G. BUT if and when we do ill problaby sell mine off and buy a new one.
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AT&T Expanding Their 3G Network in 2008
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Again apple didn't put the 3g on the sim card ATT did. Why would their be any lawsuits? Where did apple advertisie or ever claim the iphone was a 3g device? What is your logic here?
No 3G hardware means no 3G support. Its not happening in the current phones. Everyone knew this from day one.
Anyone have an idea if the AT&T Unlimited Data Plans are going to increase from the current rates? ie. $59.00/mo, for Unlimited AT&T Edge versus $xx.xx/mo, for Unlimited AT&T 3G?
What are the differences for other mobile carriers ie. Sprint, Verizon, etc.?
What are the differences for other mobile carriers ie. Sprint, Verizon, etc.?
Sprint's Xohm WiMAX implementation is not likely to end up built into phones anytime soon, as they're marketing it as a home-network option as competition to DSL and Cable internet services, and the power consumption on it is likely to be higher by a good bit than AT&T's HSDPA.
As far as qualifying it as a 4G network, even that is questionable due to how they are implementing it.
Well regardless of when they have network (which they already do. they just don't have the coverage) apple made it clear that an iphone with 3G hardware would have been a little bulkier and have less battery life.
I think that announce we heard a few months back about an integrated 3g chipset was the thing apple was waiting for.
That hardware combined with intels new ultra mobile chips should certainly make for a killer iphone2.
3G and a 32GB model to be released at the same time. Let's hope. And as for all the people crying about the iPhone being updated too frequently and having buyers remorse, suck it up. Tech is outdated the day development stops on a project for they have already started working on its replacement. And its not like they dropped the price on the 8GB iPhone and moved the 16GB model to that price point. This year will probably truly test your fanboy metal with all the upgrades Apple is going to unveil. So suck it up.
Why, because *you* don't understand what you read?
It's the THIRD GENERATION of SIM cards.
don't know
Still a bit skeptical of a 3G iPhone coming that soon. Seems that there are things that could influence the timeline from either direction, though. Among them: the desire to enter the East Asian market (pro) and devising a strategy to placate early adopters (con).
Any other thoughts on what would influence this anticipated release?
Still a bit skeptical of a 3G iPhone coming that soon. Seems that there are things that could influence the timeline from either direction, though. Among them: the desire to enter the East Asian market (pro) and devising a strategy to placate early adopters (con).
Any other thoughts on what would influence this anticipated release?
Well what would you sue them with? If you took the sim card out of the phone and looked at it, and then could base your purchasing decision on that, then maybe apple could get sued.
Well i haven't actually seen an iPhone too closely because i'm in canada, but it seems to me that the sim card should be pretty well tucked away in there so almost nobody should actually see what's written on there.
And also, could you sue a car dealer if there was an "i" on your car somewhere and it turned out that it wasn't fuel injected?
My guess is no way in hell
Are chipsets now low-enough power enough to swing the tradeoffs that Steve Jobs told us about in June 2007?
Will it not suck as bad now? :3
3G in my area (Severn, MD), depending on where you are in a street, you'll either get EDGE or 3G.
3G in my area (Severn, MD), depending on where you are in a street, you'll either get EDGE or 3G.
My head says 'wait' my wallet says 'buy'.
AAAAAAaaaaggggggggghhhhhh.
Should I buy or should I wait,
If I buy I'll have one now,
If I wait I'll have 3G.
May be I'll get some cans and some string. Not ordinary string, no, superfast high fidelity string for better reception. What if they then bring out broad string?
Man, I hate dilemmas.
AAAAAAaaaaggggggggghhhhhh.
Should I buy or should I wait,
If I buy I'll have one now,
If I wait I'll have 3G.
May be I'll get some cans and some string. Not ordinary string, no, superfast high fidelity string for better reception. What if they then bring out broad string?
Man, I hate dilemmas.
This is great news. It means the first obstacle to iPhone 2 is removed, AT&T will be ready for it. Next are the technological obstacles...battery consumption, size etc. Any idea how the integrated 3G chipset someone mentioned lets apple get over these issues?
However, this confounds my plans of going in for an iPhone next month. My contract is expired and but I don't want to get into a new one with AT&T without the iPhone.
However, this confounds my plans of going in for an iPhone next month. My contract is expired and but I don't want to get into a new one with AT&T without the iPhone.
I love my iPhone and am SURE gonna love my 3G iPhone. Hope there is some kind of trade up program going on at the time. Otherwise, should I expect to be on a 3 year AT&T plan? Think AT&T will be unlocking 1G iPhones at that point?
I know everybody has been talking up 3G since before the iPhione launch, but . . .
EDGE is fully deployed now and very widely indeed. It is as fast in actual practice as 3G. AT&T is ramping up EDGE bandwidth increases market by market and some day EDGE will itself be twice as fast.
3G is just now being deployed in major markets. Not widely. If you are in a big city and use a phone locally then 3G is an interesting future feature. But iPhone as it exists right now with EDGE is the device of the near-present-and future.
3G does use more power and we may see something akin to an airport card for Mac CPU's that does 802.11, 3G, and EDGE since Macs are a mobile-crippled device as compared to a mere iPhone right now.
I want my iPhone not-nano as my PRIMARY device.
Rocketman
EDGE is fully deployed now and very widely indeed. It is as fast in actual practice as 3G. AT&T is ramping up EDGE bandwidth increases market by market and some day EDGE will itself be twice as fast.
3G is just now being deployed in major markets. Not widely. If you are in a big city and use a phone locally then 3G is an interesting future feature. But iPhone as it exists right now with EDGE is the device of the near-present-and future.
3G does use more power and we may see something akin to an airport card for Mac CPU's that does 802.11, 3G, and EDGE since Macs are a mobile-crippled device as compared to a mere iPhone right now.
I want my iPhone not-nano as my PRIMARY device.
Rocketman
ATT slip
I cannot believe that the ATT CEO let slip that 3G iphones are coming by year's end. Why would anyone buy an iphone now???
For those who have used 3G (like EVDO) versus EDGE I can tell you plainly that the difference is remarkable.
Us 3G users don't want just the ability to browse faster but want the ability to stream video and audio and teleconference like in Europe.
And I would not mind a BT DUN this time JOBS.
I cannot believe that the ATT CEO let slip that 3G iphones are coming by year's end. Why would anyone buy an iphone now???
For those who have used 3G (like EVDO) versus EDGE I can tell you plainly that the difference is remarkable.
Us 3G users don't want just the ability to browse faster but want the ability to stream video and audio and teleconference like in Europe.
And I would not mind a BT DUN this time JOBS.