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TomKease

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Oct 9, 2008
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ok...

so i have a 1st gen iphone that's running on edge. Let me tell you i have just about had it up to HERE with it.

Let me tell you that i really enjoy my iphone and think that it has changed the way we will use phones from here on out. I love APPLE stuff, but this ols iphone is killing me. I would get a 3G but with all the rumors of a 3rd generation coming out, i dont wanna spend the money just yet.

Ya see along with the speed of edge, or the lack there of, i really hate that the iphone doesn't have features that every other phone has these days.
i know everyone bitches about the iphone not having MMS, copy & paste, forwarding of text messages, gps that helps you(HA), running something like messenger in the background. but these are things that a guy me would use all the time and it seems that i have taken these for granted.

Mostly im disgusted with the egde network. I wanna punch an old lady as i wait for a page to render. but like i said with a new phone rumored to come out....what to do.

so in the mean time i have been toying with the idea of a blackberry bold, which would appear to do all those things and have a better battery life. well im told it does all that. i have yet to really play with one and talk to someone at att that really knows what they are talking about.

even better do i just hang on to iphone and wait for the palm pre? should i wait and see if apple makes the changes that we all hoping it does? i'm at a loss.

my girlfriend thinks i just want a new toy, which i think is true. i guess theres really no advice anyone can give me. this post was mainly just to vent and make myself feel better. i guess with the slow edge speed and the limitations on the phone, it just gets to me some how.

Thanks for listening....

not sure if i made any sense at all

TK
 
You arent going to get MMS and copy and paste with another one either. Mine is jailbroken so i get MMS but i wouldnt use copy and paste even if i had it so i dont care.
 
If you're expecting a blisteringly fast page load on the 3G you may be disapointed. My EDGE iPhone loaded several pages (macrumours / news.bbc.co.uk / apple.com/uk/thestore )faster than a 3G iPhone in the O2 shop in aberdeen over the weekend, in fact i usually get arround 700/800kbps on my EDGE iPhone and my boss only gets 300-400kbps on his 3G. BUT maybe ATT in the US has a slower implementation of EDGE or a faster implementation of 3G? who knows?

I'd say just wait, its still a good phone and it probably is just a bit of new toy envy on your part.
 
BUT maybe ATT in the US has a slower implementation of EDGE or a faster implementation of 3G? who knows?

Traveling the U.S. I find that EDGE tends to be 100/200kbps and 3G tends to be 800/1,000kbps. (Apple says "twice as fast" in their ads...I say 5x!)

I had no idea EDGE could be as fast as you get. I've always considered it pretty worthless.
 
I never really had that much of a problem with the Edge network. I only upgraded to the 3G because of the rumors Edge was being phased out and replaced with 3G towers. I miss my 1st gen!
 
My advice: do what I did -- get a Nokia E71. Why?

- It's 3G.

- It's got push e-mail with GMail (actually with any of the many, many, many IMAP providers that support IDLE).

- It plays back H.264 and AAC content.

- It's got GPS (and Google Maps runs on it) and an FM radio.

- It's got a built-in VoIP client that works over 3G.

- It supports tethering via USB and Bluetooth out of the box.

- It runs Java apps.

- It doesn't require you to purchase apps through Apple.

- To top it all off, the battery lasts longer (and is removable), the phone is slimmer and lighter, and it's considerably cheaper than the iPhone.

Oh, and it's got a real keyboard.
 
I had no idea EDGE could be as fast as you get. I've always considered it pretty worthless.

It can't. I don't know what he's referring to, but EDGE's maximum throughput is 236.8 kbit/s -- and that's assuming all conditions are optimal.
 
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