I was in Europe for 2 weeks and used my iPhone constantly, visual voicemail,
read the NY Times and LA Times every morning on Safari, Google maps and Weather a few times a day, sent pics I took back to the famiy and friends and when I was at the airport to leave I still had not used my 20 megs. Don't know how you use 10 megs a day, but I had trouble using 2 megs a day.
If it's not 3G I'm gonna laugh, then cry, then be very angry.No 3G in iPhone would subject Apple to mockery from Europeans. anything other than 3G in Europe is worthless.
The iPod Touch isn't 3G and I'm sure they're selling plenty of those...![]()
And every interface Nokia has made was laughable compared to the iPhone.
Maybe they should stop chatting and start producing phones without horrible interfaces.
This has been rehashed a thousand times, particulary with respect to wired telecommunications, e.g., "The USA doesn't have good broadband internet speeds cause its cost prohibitive to lay fiber optic cable in the huge land mass". This disinformation is sprayed out there by the telecom monopolies in this country!
Whether its about wired broadband or cellphone technology, the flaw in that argument is that the population density of the top 25 markets (or even top 100) in the United States is quite high, definitely high enough to warrant competitive broadband and cellphone technology. And yet besides the extremely limited rollout of Verizon FIOS, most of us are limited to a DUOPOLY of DSL/Cable for internet with abhorrent speeds for either and ridiculous prices and terms of service.
On the cellphone front, we are hardly any better. Indeed the CDMA 3G coverage isn't too bad in populated areas, but we are still much behind the latest technology and we pay out the **** for what we do get.
I don't mean to jump on you, but Im very passionate about this issue and wish to dispel any misconceptions about why the US is falling so behind in certain technological areas. I mean for GOD **** SAKE, WE BASICALLY DOMINATED THE LAST 40 YEARS OF TECHNOLOGY IN THIS COUNTRY AND NOW LOOK WHATS HAPPENING. The piece of *** corrupt Republican politicians sold us out to the telecoms long ago. I am so sick of that.
Im moving to Tokyo....
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Well, it will take longer for Canada because it's not a major market. Germany is the 2nd or 3rd largest consumer market behind the US. Japan is also up there. If Apple is going by a "large markets first" policy, then I'd say you're going to be waiting a bit longer.
the next best market for the iPhone is Japan.
In the UK, I would say that nobody pays over £50 UK for a new contract phone these days. People expect them to be FREE if they are signing a contract which is £35 or more each month.
My Nokia E65 on launch day was free with my contract. Im sure there are people with bucket loads of spare cash who can justify the iphone, but it seems massively over priced for what is still essentially... a mobile phone.
Japan is the most sophisticated phone market in the world, at 2G the iPhone is just not ready, it needs to be 4/5G to compete successfully there![]()
So all in all a 3G iPhone would be of no benefit over an Edge based one. This goes for all people who are in similar circumstances than I.
Yes, it would be nice for a future proofed iPhone, but none of the networks in the UK seem to want to cover my area, and battery life would suffer.
cheers
matt
could apples hook-up with t-mobile help US t-mobile costumers get visual viocemail that are using unlocked iphones?
I think you used a lot of wifi, a NY Times page is typically 400k, Gmaps 500k up to 1MB or more and a photo is probably about 1MB. In my own country i do plan on using visual voicemail and push mail, 10 MB per day is nothing.
Which got me poking around on Wikipedia: "Besides this vagueness there is no definition to what 5G is but it will go beyond all preceding generations: 4G, 3G, 2G, and 1G wireless communication systems and is expected to start to be known before 2015."
Before 2015? That's still a long way off...
If it's not 3G I'm gonna laugh, then cry, then be very angry.
399 sounds a bit dodgy.. That's quite a lot of a price difference from the US version. If the EU version doesn't have any different hardware, then why spend some 150USD more on it?
So right now I have a Nokia N80, wonderful specification, but doesn't work smoothly for whatever reason. It has 3G and is on the Orange UK network.
I do not get 3G coverage where I live now, I do when I go to college, or to a local city. It is not worth me keeping the phone in 3G mode purely because of the battery drain, as when it is not in a 3G area it constantly searches for one.
When I do need to use the browser on it, I am more than happy to use EDGE, the speeds aren't that bad and I am usually travelling so I have time to kill. The phone also has wi-fi so when I am near a usable hot-spot I can use that. If I am not near a wi-fi hot-spot I am usually near a computer. On the occasions I have used 3G for browsing I personally felt no gain in speed over EDGE.
So all in all a 3G iPhone would be of no benefit over an Edge based one. This goes for all people who are in similar circumstances than I.
Yes, it would be nice for a future proofed iPhone, but none of the networks in the UK seem to want to cover my area, and battery life would suffer.
Sorry for the reasonably long post, but I felt that I needed to put in my little bit.
cheers
matt
If the iPhone launched in Germany turns out to be the same non-3G version
that's out in the US... well, I hope it won't sell well at all. If it forces Apple to either update the thing or lower prices.
Just sayin'.