Edge iPhone vs Nokia N95

[Michael CM1]

It likely depends on reception of services too. Are you both on the same network? Whilst up on the moors I (on Virgin Mobile) get a full signal whilst my friends Vodaphone gets no signal at all.

The iPhone also has a pretty fast renderer. Some guy at college had one of the first 3G phones - downloads and stuff were fast but loading up a standard page was really haulted.

Just saying theres probably reasons why 3G was so slow.

I know absolutely nothing about the N95, but theoretically if you hooked a very old 486 cpu-based PC to a 3.0Mbps Internet connection and then used iTunes to download a song, a C2D iMac with a 512kbps or whatever connection would probably do that all faster.

In other words, 3G is only part of the equation. Yes, network connections are usually the bottlenecks of all computers, but the whole package counts.

FWIW, EDGE has been pretty good to me so far. It's not sucking battery life and seems to be kinda double the speed of dial-up. I can deal with that for $250 (beats having nothing on the RAZR).

 

[marksman]

but for me i couldn't live without a physical keyboard. i will often compose an email in stop and go traffic (i know i know...) and doing so on the iphone will get me killed. on the curve, it's pretty simple.

You should not be typing on any device while driving a car. That is just monumentally dumb.

 

[marksman]

It wont allow high-bandwidth apps like SlingBox and Skype over WIFI.

Not true.

PS Nobody cares about your N95 here... It is a nice phone for people who want to struggle to use a cell phone. For the rest of us who have more important things to do with our time, and where usability is actually a primary factor, well... that is why we are here on the iPHONE forum.

 

[benmrii]

I have alot of experience with a "full keyboard smart phone" the treo and crackberry...and typing on both totally suck. Keys are to small, multible buttons get pushed and shifting to use other characters was a task and a half trying to find the hidden symbols. I got so frustrated that I gave up texting unless I absolutely had to. Now with the iPhone keypad, i type all day long and have never had an issue. I can type upto 32 words a min which is fine for my purposes. My finger tips dont hurt after answering emails or forum threads and my spelling is actually better with the iPhone. So, with that in mind, I have to disagree and will only say that it depends on the user and which keypad suits his/her needs. No one is better then the other, its a user preference.

A user preference indeed. You are, at least in my experience from speaking with my pre-keypad now iPhone friends as well as my own, the minority, but I'm glad you're happy with it.

I'm not knocking it, it's a great system to get all the visual space as possible, I just don't like typing on it near as much.

 

[ruinfx]

Not true.

PS Nobody cares about your N95 here... It is a nice phone for people who want to struggle to use a cell phone. For the rest of us who have more important things to do with our time, and where usability is actually a primary factor, well... that is why we are here on the iPHONE forum.

you act like an n95 owner started this thread to troll the forum. i understand this is an iphone forum and you would love to just start a thread like this and bash the n95 in a giant iphone circle jerk instead of actually hearing the other side. bash away.

 

[chrisparr]

Not true.

PS Nobody cares about your N95 here... It is a nice phone for people who want to struggle to use a cell phone. For the rest of us who have more important things to do with our time, and where usability is actually a primary factor, well... that is why we are here on the iPHONE forum.

Funny comment, I don't struggle to use mine.

And to think this thread was originally discussing Edge Vs 3G

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