It’s nice to hear AT&T Chief Randall Stephenson talk about a 3G iPhone today, even though he’s not telling us anything we don’t already believe. Apple is in this thing now and I’m sure that they are, once again, doing the brain work, and leg work, to do it right.
They may be also hanging their hat on some future timing of a significant HSDPA revision, or something that will make the iPhone, once again, leap forward. Summarily, we like to call things… things, but the iPhone with the new network facet may be a "4G" device.
Is Fortune’s Most Powerful Man In Business going to settle for a somewhat well established cellular backbone that a bunch of other folks have? I’m going with patience on this one. They also have to straighten out the integrity issues among high speed GSM networks across the globe, which have their differences.
These plans must be ahead of WiMax potential a this point, I would guess… however Steve may Think Different. Whatever the leap, It’s guaranteed to continue the distinction of the device.
Imagine a big pipe on the iPhone, most everywhere you go (What’s AT&T gonna charge us for this?… does it matter?), many thousands of iPhone web sites, a native apps "iStore", and several more huge media source company integrations…
OK, patience may be overstating.
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November 30th, 2007 at 8:28 am
Finally Apple and AT&T have initiated a true stop for all of the iPhone unlockers out there. You want to unlock our phone? Have at it, and be stuck on EDGE with Tmobile. Oh, you want 3G? Welcome to Cingular, the New AT&T and our ridiculously high data charges. You’re going to pay for these and love it, because Steve Jobs has finally delivered with the iPhone 3G.
As for the guys across the pond, it’s really a lost cause, heck, the EU is probably going to force everyone to unlock that bad-boy anyway.
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:37 pm
I am glad they are releasing a 3G iPhone. The EDGE network is just too slow, it is an insult to such a sophisticated phone. If they have improved the battery life, I wonder if they will also make it removable, and replaceable by the user. The downside of having a removable door on the back is it would ruin the beauty of the iPhone .