'Enable 3G' Setting in iPhone Firmware NOT Fake

[PubGuy]

3G on/off switch is a Good Thing

The way everyone talks, you'd think 3G was a nationwide standard in the US --- it's not. It is only available in certain large cities Period.

So, if you don't live in those certain large cities, it makes perfect sense to have an option to turn off the 3G radio, just like you can turn off the bluetooth.

Also, I find the Edge totally adequate to check emails on the go and to get occasional directions. Surfing the web is painful, but I can always locate a free hotspot using the maps program if I plan on doing extensive web surfing.

Granted, if you live outside of the North America, 3G is much more prevalent and a desirable feature. But then again, if you are only checking email and an occasional map while on-the-go, the option to switch off 3G to increase battery life is a real nice option to have.

 

[Shasterball]

Why is it mandatory to post at least two "3G!!!" -news items every day? Everyone knows 3G is coming and almost every 3G phone has the option of turning it off.

So what's the actual rumor/news here?

I don't think there is one...

 

[iSlave]

Personally, I'm almost as sick to death of reading 'rumours' about the 3G iPhone as I was about the original iPhone prior to release.

Which leads me to this question: Which do you think has had more hype, rumours and general press overkill? iPhone? Or 3G iPhone? Answers on a postcard...

 

[PowerFullMac]

Personally, I'm almost as sick to death of reading 'rumours' about the 3G iPhone as I was about the original iPhone prior to release.

Which leads me to this question: Which do you think has had more hype, rumours and general press overkill? iPhone? Or 3G iPhone? Answers on a postcard...

Well, the original iPhone was 100% speculation, no one even knew about the multi-touch screen, and I think all the people who were buying them on launch day because of the hype as they had never even used one before. The same will probably go with this one, but lets hope there is less baisc stuff missing from this one!

 

[Morky]

Up the sleeve.

On a slight tangent to this subject i think for me everyone is getting very excited about the 3g aspect to the next version of iphone, but if its just a form change and 3g then i dont think i'll be scrabling to get one, in other words ole steve has to have something else up his sleeves in June! The 3g rumours has definately deflected everyone attention to the point something else, GPS (which is another rumour) is going to really swing it to make everyone update to/buy the new version.

For a lot of folks, including me, the Exchange support is the killer app allowing us to leave our Blackberrys (spelling intentional; it's a brand). The app store also creates a whole new dimension of functionality for the iPhone.

As far as something up the sleeve, I would love to see GPS, and iChat-compatible video chat accompanied by the release of iChat for Windows. To blow the doors off most remaining complaints: replaceable battery (c'mon Jonny Ive, you can find a way to make a battery beautiful), voice dialing, cut and paste, Finder, disk mode, scissors, wine opener.

 

[SamoanDude]

Excuse my ignorance but this is the new upcoming phone and not existing ones right?

 

[PowerFullMac]

Excuse my ignorance but this is the new upcoming phone and not existing ones right?

Unless the old ones can magically grow 3G transmitters than yes.

 

[RussGJohnson]

Why not have a "automatically switch 3g on or off for data connections" preference setting instead? When enabled you would automatically be switched to 3g when you open Safari or maps for example, and then be switched back to edge after a reasonable time of inactivity.

 

[thaitillidie]

Yada yada frickin' yada

There are circulating claims that the 'Enable 3G' setting screenshot in the latest iPhone 2.0 Beta was faked.

Asking whether or not the screenshot is fake is like asking if a perfect digital replica of a photo is fake. The story remains the same regardless of the answer. As mentioned in the original story, the exact wording and text from the screenshot appears in Apple's iPhone 2.0 firmware:

Apple expects the 3G option in the upcoming iPhone to impact battery life enough that it offers the user and option to turn it off.

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Former Apple Fan Log: Thursday May 22, 2008 A.D. --- The effects have worn off. Officially. I first noticed signs of remission shortly after droppin' $400 of my hard-earned money on a frickin' 8GB iphone that didn't even have features found on models costing much less, only to witness these ******s at Apple then offer a model a few months later with TWICE the memory but with no incentive in place for me to upgrade without paying for a brand new phone for five hundred frickin' more dollars!!

And now, presently, after witnessing these same ******s sit idly by for weeks and months while their loyal devoted fans are reduced to making buffoons outta themselves by wildly speculating with rumors, innuendos and unsubstantiated claims related to a THIRD model (in less than a year at that!) on the horizon -- without the company offering so much as a simple courtesy by providing them with one iota, nay, a small morsel of what features will/will not be present on the new device until such a time of their choosing is, well, UNFREAKIN'ACCEPTABLE and a slap in the face to its customers who have supported them, restored their reputation and help put them back on the map.

So I'm done. I'm cured. No longer susceptible to their mind and wallet games.

If this new so-called 3G iPhone with its feature set and capabilities is anything less than multiple orgasm-inducing and a cure for my debilitating herpes -- especially considering the unprecedented degree at which its hype machine is now operating -- I am finished with Apple. Forever. And for good.

Signed, sealed and delivered this Thursday the 22nd day of May in the year 2008.

Good frickin' day.

 

[PowerFullMac]

Here is ultimate proof it works - I just done it!

 

[captain kaos]

Why not have a "automatically switch 3g on or off for data connections" preference setting instead? When enabled you would automatically be switched to 3g when you open Safari or maps for example, and then be switched back to edge after a reasonable time of inactivity.

Im sure some one, somewhere will write a programme for that, and it'd be a good idea as well.

 

[L3X]

I'm still wondering if 3G is worth it or not. I got my 16G iPhone in April as a birthday present (milestone birthday), and some friends suggested that we should've waited until the 3G. But, for what i do, EDGE works fine, and most of the time I'm near an 802.11b/g WAP. Battery life, however, is a big thing.

I wonder, will Apple beef up the battery for 3G?

Stick with your 16GB. Save the 3G for those of us that don't have an iPhone.

 

[tgildred]

It seems like some people just come to this site to click negative on all the rumors.

I know I do.

It makes me feel like a big man.

 

[Stewie]

can i just ask and this may seem rather silly but why would a 3g phone of any kind not just iphone need 3g turned off yes granted 3g battary life is some times rubish just depends on what your doing with your phone such as playing music as well as surfing the net..


Just seems kind of daft to me

Because a 3g phone will always want to connect to a 3g network. So it tries really, really hard all the time to connect to 3g. If you aren't in a 3g area this will drain the battery down very, very, very quickly. And by very, very, very quickly I'm talking hours. I used to have a Verzion treo that would only get about 4 hours when I was out of 3g coverage. Of course treo's suck so that is not the best comparison to make when talking battery life, but still....

 

[tomjleeds]

I don't think that is the point of this thread

That's probably true, but I'm sick of hearing this over and over again.

You could have said that in a better way with less arrogance.

1) The whole "'mericans" thing was a joke, no more no less. I guess irony is lost on some people.

2) I think it's pretty frickin' arrogant that those of us who've been using 3G phones for years are ignored time and time again.

 

[phasornc]

Not Windows Mobile

Jeebus! Are you 'mericans so devoid of 3G that you don't listen to us Europeans going on and on and on and on about how pretty much every 3G phone on the market has the option to use only 2G networks?! Yes, it gives the user the option, but so does every other phone, this isn't new!

Neither the Moto Q9H nor the Samsung Blackjack II provide a user switch for Edge (2.5G). They will fall back to Edge but the only user customizable switch is "Disable Cellular Data". Ya that sucks when your battery is running down and your out and about with no charger. You have to make a "painful" choice "no internet now" or no internet and "no phone at some point within the next not completely certain timeframe". I like the edge fallback option. Edge is good enough for email and Google maps which is really all I use my Blackjack for since Mobile IE $UCKS!!! And Opera is pretty hard to use with no touchscreen.

 

[Paulo the Limey]

D'oh!

This just illustrates the power and fallibility of the internet. Great power to distribute information globally in a short space of time. The fallibility? Helps if the information is right in the first place…

 

[thogs_cave]

So I'm done. I'm cured. No longer susceptible to their mind and wallet games.

I don't get it. If you buy something that does what you need it to do when you buy it (or why would you buy it?), then why complain when something newer comes out? The 3G phones won't make my current iPhone any less useful to me than it is now - it does what I want, and that's why I got one.

Sure, faster networking would be nice, but it was fast enough when I bought it. When it no longer is, then I will consider a new one. Yes, it's nice to have the shiny new toy, but in the end it's a tool.

 

[sassenach74]

Former Apple Fan Log: Thursday May 22, 2008 A.D. --- Blah Blah yadda yadda dribble dribble more dribble and a bit more yadda yadda................Signed, sealed and delivered this Thursday the 22nd day of May in the year 2008.

Good frickin' day.

Yeah cos techonology has a tendency to sit still, nothing ever gets superceded by newer models, the old models always suddenly become **** when a newer model comes out, consumers are always privvy to inside information, it's only Apple that holds it back......what a totally nonsensical post you made.

 

[PowerFullMac]

Neither the Moto Q9H nor the Samsung Blackjack II provide a user switch for Edge (2.5G). They will fall back to Edge but the only user customizable switch is "Disable Cellular Data". Ya that sucks when your battery is running down and your out and about with no charger. You have to make a "painful" choice "no internet now" or no internet and "no phone at some point within the next not completely certain timeframe". I like the edge fallback option. Edge is good enough for email and Google maps which is really all I use my Blackjack for since Mobile IE $UCKS!!! And Opera is pretty hard to use with no touchscreen.

The BlackJack does but, if I recall correctly, you need to get in to a secret menu. Google it.

 

[rhett7660]

Bring on the 3G... june can not be here fast enough!

 

[PowerFullMac]

Bring on the 3G... june can not be here fast enough!

It will seem slow because this week is a EDGE week, after June 9th the space time continuum will run on 3G so the days will go by faster!