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ninjatutle
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WIFI

is also broadband


kamm

join:2001-02-14
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said by ninjatutle See Profile :

is also broadband
No, it's not.
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SSidlov
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I'm double posting by mistake, sorry. this message is removed.


Dr Demento
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said by kamm See Profile :

said by ninjatutle See Profile :

is also broadband
No, it's not.
But Wifi is usually a gateway to some kind of broadband connection.

The fact is Apple figures that most people who initially buy the iPhone cannot afford a 3G voice and data package and live in a city where many Wifi hotspots would be available .


SSidlov
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reply to kamm
Quote from »www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/09/iphone0109/

"It supports quad-band GSM, EDGE, Bluetooth and 802.11b/g/n - in other words no 3G yet and no UMTS, making it a "quaintly old-fashioned phone", as Reg columnist Guy Kewney writes on his website: "Certainly, this will lose potential sales. Almost certainly, Apple doesn't care. Putting 3G onto the Mk I device would cut the already-ordinary battery life, while making the electronics more complex."

and this slide from engadget: »www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engad···0203.jpg

But if it has WIFI, then we will surely see someone write a Skype or other app for this phone to circumvent Cingular.....

(and for those who ask why Cingular?, the answer is simple, it is the largest GSM network in the US, and GSM is the cellphone standard used worldwide -although the MMS lack is an issue outside the US. Cingular has a strong desire to get more people using it's data services - slow and boring as it may be. HOWEVER- they don't adequately support their own existing phones with applications, so my so-called 'unsupported phone' forced me to put Opera-Mini and Goggle Local and my preferred weather service supplier -MyCast- on my phone, myself.) My contract is up in June, and I can switch phones cheaply, I would either get this or a Sony Ericson Walkman type.
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wwdubbia

join:2002-06-03
Clinton, NY

reply to Dr Demento
said by Dr Demento See Profile :

said by kamm See Profile :

said by ninjatutle See Profile :

is also broadband
No, it's not.
But Wifi is usually a gateway to some kind of broadband connection.

The fact is Apple figures that most people who initially buy the iPhone cannot afford a 3G voice and data package and live in a city where many Wifi hotspots would be available .
that's not a fact, but a rather off base opinion on your part.

the fact (or maybe *my* off base opinion!) is that most apple users have a lot of coin and can certainly afford a 3G voice and data package.


kamm

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said by wwdubbia See Profile :

that's not a fact, but a rather off base opinion on your part.

the fact (or maybe *my* off base opinion!) is that most apple users have a lot of coin and can certainly afford a 3G voice and data package.
I second this: it's not only a weird notion that somebody has $500 to cough up for a phone but $20/mo is too much for the data service but in fact data service package is the same for GPRS/EDGE and UMTS/HSDPA, for the same price. There's only one package.

In other words APple simply took away the fast internet, for no good reason (it's not new, it's not bigger, not heavier, not difficult, it's the same price etc).

I suspect the good ol' Apple greed.
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