The excitement is palpable but am I the only one thinking that this is one phone that doesnt deserve the hype?. It looks great and fits with the apple mantra of simple and cool but its a 600 dollar GPRS phone for crying out loud. I mean, there are free after rebate HSDPA phones out there and Jobs wants us to plunk 600 bucks for a 2.5G phone especially one with a lot of data apps?. He must be kidding surely. And for those thinking that someday Jobs will turn on HSDPA by a software update, not happening. As a wireless engineer, I can tell you there needs to be hardware updates on the phone, one which means a newer SKU and a lot more changes. If one such radio is available in the iphone but not turned on, then the customers are going to be pissed. I am waiting to see how this works out. For me, my first iphone if ever will be the one that has HSDPA or better still HSUPA.
I'm with you on the lack of 3G on this phone. All the ads are showing blazing speeds for accessing maps and other things that are just simply SLOW in reality. While Jobs will clearly do a good job on the hardware and simplicity, I just don't believe reality will come close to expectations - in fact, I think they're trying to 'pull the wool' over people's eyes when it comes to speed. Now of course Wi-Fi is a lot faster, but usage is just not practical (you're not really in hot spots that often, not to mention battery life tanks with Wi-Fi on phones, I've owned several)...
I've got a friend that works at Cingular/ATT who says that the Apple displays in their stores will be connected via Wi-Fi - again, to mask the fact that the iPhone is SLOW... talk about 'pulling the wool' over buyers' eyes - I wonder how many will return the phone after realizing that it doesn't work like the ads or the store demo unit???
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The excitement is palpable but am I the only one thinking that this is one phone that doesnt deserve the hype?. It looks great and fits with the apple mantra of simple and cool but its a 600 dollar GPRS phone for crying out loud. I mean, there are free after rebate HSDPA phones out there and Jobs wants us to plunk 600 bucks for a 2.5G phone especially one with a lot of data apps?. He must be kidding surely.
And for those thinking that someday Jobs will turn on HSDPA by a software update, not happening. As a wireless engineer, I can tell you there needs to be hardware updates on the phone, one which means a newer SKU and a lot more changes. If one such radio is available in the iphone but not turned on, then the customers are going to be pissed.
I am waiting to see how this works out. For me, my first iphone if ever will be the one that has HSDPA or better still HSUPA.
I'm with you on the lack of 3G on this phone. All the ads are showing blazing speeds for accessing maps and other things that are just simply SLOW in reality. While Jobs will clearly do a good job on the hardware and simplicity, I just don't believe reality will come close to expectations - in fact, I think they're trying to 'pull the wool' over people's eyes when it comes to speed. Now of course Wi-Fi is a lot faster, but usage is just not practical (you're not really in hot spots that often, not to mention battery life tanks with Wi-Fi on phones, I've owned several)...
I've got a friend that works at Cingular/ATT who says that the Apple displays in their stores will be connected via Wi-Fi - again, to mask the fact that the iPhone is SLOW... talk about 'pulling the wool' over buyers' eyes - I wonder how many will return the phone after realizing that it doesn't work like the ads or the store demo unit???