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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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???