Steve, regarding EDGE, there are a couple other inaccuracies in the article that lead me to believe that the sentence towards the ends re EDGE may be more the reporter's speculation than anything else.
I'm really expecting/hoping that Apple will use this week's announcement as an opportunity to intro a 3G-capable iPhone, rather than seriously expecting carriers on your side of the pond to add new infrastructure capabilities everywhere for EDGE... (yes the iPhone is a landmark device, but I find it hard to swallow that _any_ one device warrants that degree of infrastructure investment, especially in a basically obsolete (albeit less power-hungry) technology)
FWIW, the 2 inaccuracies I found were in the 5th & 6th paragraphs:
* the current-gen iPhone supposedly not being able to connect to the WiFi iTunes store (while that's technically true right this second, Apple's publicly stated that the current-gen iPhone will get the WiFi iTunes feature later this month when an automatically-installed software upgrade is pushed out via iTunes desktop syncing)
* the iPod touch supposedly being able to do everything that the iPhone can, except for phone calls (the touch also can't do email, camera, stocks, Google Maps, weather, and notes)
I'm also hoping/expecting that this week's intro will bring the capacity of the iPhone up to 16GB to match the touch...
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Steve, regarding EDGE, there are a couple other inaccuracies in the article that lead me to believe that the sentence towards the ends re EDGE may be more the reporter's speculation than anything else.
I'm really expecting/hoping that Apple will use this week's announcement as an opportunity to intro a 3G-capable iPhone, rather than seriously expecting carriers on your side of the pond to add new infrastructure capabilities everywhere for EDGE... (yes the iPhone is a landmark device, but I find it hard to swallow that _any_ one device warrants that degree of infrastructure investment, especially in a basically obsolete (albeit less power-hungry) technology)
FWIW, the 2 inaccuracies I found were in the 5th & 6th paragraphs:
* the current-gen iPhone supposedly not being able to connect to the WiFi iTunes store (while that's technically true right this second, Apple's publicly stated that the current-gen iPhone will get the WiFi iTunes feature later this month when an automatically-installed software upgrade is pushed out via iTunes desktop syncing)
* the iPod touch supposedly being able to do everything that the iPhone can, except for phone calls (the touch also can't do email, camera, stocks, Google Maps, weather, and notes)
I'm also hoping/expecting that this week's intro will bring the capacity of the iPhone up to 16GB to match the touch...