  OreoleO Wanna Settle This Outside??
join:2004-05-22 Feasterville Trevose, PA | Voltage?
Anyone know if the Wimax chips require a lot of voltage? One reason... why apple didn't put 3G chips on the iPhone, and took EVDO instead. The anandtech review speculated 3G chips to subtract roughly an hour of usage time. |
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 Mutiny32 Network Security Engineer
join:2000-07-04 Lees Summit, MO | Apple didn't go with EVDO, they went with GPRS. I think you mean UMTS/HSDPA |
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  jrsmooth
join:2000-05-17 Washington, DC | Actually the iPhone has EDGE (some call it 2.5G), a slightly better technology than GPRS (2G). |
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 JSM88
join:2000-12-20 Falls Church, VA | and wimax is 4G, so it wouldn't matter what 3G apple had chosen (if they had) rather than going with tired old 2.5G speeds. |
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