It effects me. I typically use my original iPhone during the times when I sell my current iPhone to buy the new one. I can't do that anymore.
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AT&T Shuts Down 2G Network and Ends Cellular Connectivity for Original iPhone
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I do remember them on my Blackberry. If I got over 45mph forget it altogether.
This also reminds me when I called Verizon in mid 90's and asked why my Motorola Bag Phone wasn't working well anymore. They told me they were discontinuing analog. Thanks for continuing to bill me with no notice of changeover Verizon.
Tf is a 1s????
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I also think battery life constraints as 3G was fairly newIt's called planned obsolescence... Makes it easy to know what to design into the iPhone 3G
At the time the iPhone was released, the majority of Verizon dumbphones were already using 3G EV-DO for data. If you hacked them using QPST you could even tether them to a computer over bluetooth, and the old plans counted data as call minutes instead of billing by the kilobyte! Those were the days...
Could not agree more.
Apparently, I needed to add a /S at the end of my post. Sheesh, some of you guys take this stuff way too seriously.
In hilly or mountainous terrain, you'll always have bad coverage in some spots shaded by surrounding hills or mountains. It has always been my experience that as you descend into such a dead spot, your connection drops from 4G to 3G to EDGE (2.5G) and to pure GSM (probably GPRS). Switching off EDGE wouldn't mean cutting off older devices (at least in regard to smartphones that aren't really used for 10+ years) but would mean reducing coverage.
Maybe EDGE simply offers a wider coverage for a given mast position and antenna size, maybe EDGE simply works with a weaker signal.
"Just know it works" is a much larger bash job on the SFO train folks, as you call them. Saying that the engineers responsible for the Muni system simply have no clue about what they do...??? That's bold.
I can guarantee you that anyone using 2G signal devices would receive some sort of notice from AT&T well in advance. Since the transit system is a large-scale deployment by a commercial operator, it wouldn't have just been overlooked. Maybe ignored for budget purposes, etc (as previously mentioned) but certainly NOT "unnotified."
We're only taking iPhones here,but what about all those other 2G non-smart phones like Nokia.. etc..
This is only half the picture.
There will be a bigger impact i guess when u start shutting of 3G Network by 2020 or whatever that will be. In order for these things to work well, coverage needs to be better improved in black spot areas (e.g rural areas). so if u get to 4G/LTE as the only measure down the track,,, and u still unable to get 4G/LTE in some areas... u'r phone can't fall back to anything but a "No Service" which is more devastating than still being connected.
So this has to be fixed first.
If i still had a original iPhone i'd keep it
This is only half the picture.
There will be a bigger impact i guess when u start shutting of 3G Network by 2020 or whatever that will be. In order for these things to work well, coverage needs to be better improved in black spot areas (e.g rural areas). so if u get to 4G/LTE as the only measure down the track,,, and u still unable to get 4G/LTE in some areas... u'r phone can't fall back to anything but a "No Service" which is more devastating than still being connected.
So this has to be fixed first.
If i still had a original iPhone i'd keep it
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I thought Europe was on top of this issue? When I lived in Wiesbaden (1998-2002) all I had was a nokia flip phone (snake anyone?) If I lived there now I guess I'd be really frustrated.Lucky, the phone coverage in Germany is still utter crap and i have a plan on all three.
Was in Costa Rica for vacation, even had LTE in the jungle and never saw anything below 3G. Got back home and just out of Frankfurt ... 1 bar of edge before dying completely. At my parents place i turn on airplane mode and use wifi cuz 1 bar of edge is useless. Some places i even see "GPRS"!
At the train station in Stuttgart it shows me 3G but nothing loads. So embarrassing for a european country.
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Either you're big lier like your CEO or doesn't know anything about your network. Obviously your "80 GBPS" is a made up number just like T-Mobile exaggerated number of towers.
Verizon didn't shut down its analog service in the mid 90s. Some large US cities didn't even have digital service yet in the mid-90s. AMPS got shut down in 2008.
You've been able to get them officially unlocked through AT&T for quite some time now.
Lucky, the phone coverage in Germany is still utter crap and i have a plan on all three.
Was in Costa Rica for vacation, even had LTE in the jungle and never saw anything below 3G. Got back home and just out of Frankfurt ... 1 bar of edge before dying completely. At my parents place i turn on airplane mode and use wifi cuz 1 bar of edge is useless. Some places i even see "GPRS"!
At the train station in Stuttgart it shows me 3G but nothing loads. So embarrassing for a european country.
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Surprised to hear that a tiny country like Germany has such bad coverage. That is pretty inexcusable.
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If only Steve were still alive, he would be in complete agreement.
I'd like to know this too. I want to keep my original iPhone and my iPhone SE forever.
With Li-Ion batteries if the charge gets too low it won't charge. I try to charge mine up every 6 months.
You missed the joke apparently. It was a very well made one with illustration. Wow, are you guys getting that uptight? I know you've been here longer than I have, but wow.