Unauthorized Oz review says phone speed limited

[kdarling]

Interesting.

Some people were thinking that ATT was the limiting factor, but a review in Australia says their iPhone (on a 7+Mbps 3G network) still topped out at 1.4Mbps... apparently proving that Apple limited the speed on the phone itself, to save battery.

http://apcmag.com/unauthorised_first_australian_review_of_iphone_3g.htm

 

[Pointer]

Despite these relatively low speeds compared to other 3.6 and 7.2Mbit/s handsets on the market, it's not really an issue. On a mobile phone it doesn't make much difference if the connection speed can go a lot faster — if the CPU speed isn't fast enough to render web pages as fast as the phone can receive them, then any extra connection speed doesn't help.

It doesn't really matter.