‘literally’ rising costs should have read ‘linearly’ rising costs’ (figuratively speaking, of course).

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That is shocking! (isnt it?)

http://www.heavyreading.com/details.asp?sku_id=999&skuitem_itemid=880&promo_code=&aff_code=&next_url=%2Fsearch%2Easp%3F Are the telecoms really so cheap=dumb that they cant figure that solving this bottleneck is a competitive advantage — ie a scalable paltform where costs not not forever rise literaly with traffic?

Oh wait, i said telecoms. I guess i answered my own question ;-)

At any rate, unless you have no access to wifi networks, the phone makes up for it in every other way. It rocks big time. I’m already doing pretty well with the two finger typing (I did have practice on my shit Treo, which seemed to know the end was near today as it kept restarting itself in protest).

I was skeptical, but I’m happy i went ahead and got it. On the whole this device is 80% perfect, where all the others don’t even come close to the experience of this.

Besides the EDGE network, everything else is faster than a bullet (the UI) and slicker than the bridge of the Enterprise. I don’t like to engage the flamers, but the naysayers should really try the iPhone before charging through with their standard anti-Apple pre-conceived notions that this thing can’t be half of what it’s been hyped to be. Because it is…much more than that.

Wait till Apple announces their International iPhone partners. I bet you that will be with a UMTS iPhone (unless its Japan, Korea, or China in which case it can be EV-DO). Then there will be no talk of battery drain.

This is important especially given the recent Blackberry outage where an unforeseen software problem led to an outage that affected 8 million users. It’s clear the demand for the iPhone is huge and will remain that way at least in the near future, so the potential is high for a repeat of the Blackberry scenario given AT&T’s already notoriously spotty network.

Tom: It’s not just about time slots, you also need transceivers back at the BSC. Where the AT&T network was underprovisioned was on these transceivers. This was because they were also underprovisioned on backhaul — no need for greater EDGE throughput if there is no backhaul to support it. I used to fight about this stuff 4 years ago. Funny that it took the iPhone to make them care about customer data experience! Anyway, data time slots are on-demand, so the iPhone would have to spark a major uptick in data ussage to cause voice blocking.

Although this would be something that could be fixed via software.