Apple iPhone
EDGE conspiracy theories
Check out this article:
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/20 ... »
Very interesting... Today Rush Limbaugh on his radio show announced that the EDGE network has mysteriously DOUBLED in speed!
Yet again, what a waste - just put 3G in the dang phone and be done w/ it.
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/20 ... »
Very interesting... Today Rush Limbaugh on his radio show announced that the EDGE network has mysteriously DOUBLED in speed!
Yet again, what a waste - just put 3G in the dang phone and be done w/ it.
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it is to my understanding that they had been working on that particularly because of the impending iphone release. it was mentioned on phone scoop, though damned if i can remember exactly which forum.
and it hasn't doubled in speed, it's a hella lot faster than before.
http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/apple/iphone/ »
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and it hasn't doubled in speed, it's a hella lot faster than before.
http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/apple/iphone/ »
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Ӣ AT&T's EDGE network, which the iPhone uses to access the Internet when Wi-Fi isn't available, has taken some hard knocks over its pokiness by iPhone reviewers. But last night, reports began filtering in from AT&T subscribers that the dog-slow network was now noticeably faster. Gizmodo reported earlier this month that AT&T had a project called Operation Fine EDGE that was aimed at increasing speed
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ah, on that same link it also shows steve jobs' reasoning for choosing to stick with EDGE
When we looked at 3G, the chipsets are not quite mature, in the sense that they're not low-enough power for what we were looking for. They were not integrated enough, so they took up too much physical space. We cared a lot about battery life and we cared a lot about physical size. Down the road, I'm sure some of those tradeoffs will become more favorable towards 3G but as of now we think we made a pretty good doggone decision.
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