Comments on: AT&T's New Network May Not Help Your Old iPhone

By: tmp

tmp — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:08:40 +0000

I’d be happier if they would “complete some system upgrades that will ensure our customers have the best experience with” getting a freaking signal..

By: Interconnect

Interconnect — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:31:58 +0000

3G iPhone announced $99 aren’t upgradeable to take advantage of the enchanced AT&T’s HSPA. AT&T customers subscribing with the old sets would want to switch over should be allowed as their purchases investments will die otherwise.

By: Rudy

Rudy — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:10:56 +0000

Why blame the carrier? They’re not in the business of selling devices. Don’t you think Apple knew AT&T’s network upgrade plans while they were developing the iPhone 3G? Apple wasn’t going to wait around for chip manufacturers to provide a HDPA 7.2 chipset while sales of the original iPhone began its downturn. Apple put out a product that would be ‘hot’ for the next year only, with the intention of selling even more iPhones (new and upgrades) the following year.

Well the following year is here, and not surprisingly, a new device (iPhone 3G S) will support today’s latest and greatest speeds. (translates to Fall 2009 for the start of AT&T’s HSPA 7.2mbps implementation nationwide)

It’s a pity that Verizon and Sprint won’t have any incremental speed/bandwidth improvements to speak of for the next couple years…until 4G becomes a national reality. At least AT&T is offering their customers the scalability from 1.7 -> 7.2 -> 14mbps -> 4G/LTG along the way.

Why would Apple make a detrimental move towards a CDMA iPhone, when CDMA only has another two years on the planet? It would take engineers several months just to redesign the socket on which to mount the dual Q-comm chipset anyway. When AT&T’s exclusivity agreement comes up for renewal in 2011, perhaps the iPhone 4G will become a multi-carrier platform.

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By: Mark Sigal

Mark Sigal — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:24:41 +0000

I had four major takeaways from the WWDC keynote yesterday, and one of them was, “AT&T-Apple Marriage: This Can’t End Well.” For more fodder on my reasoning, and the other three takeaways, check out my post:

Apple WWDC Keynote Analysis: Punishing the Wizard, Part Two
(http://bit.ly/2lC3yC)

Cheers,

Mark

By: Wai Yip Tung

Wai Yip Tung — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:12:14 +0000

Those who want latest of latest and fastest of fastest will upgrade their phone anyway. I’m ok with my iPhone 3G now and I wish to keep it for 2 years or more or until some killer feature come out. Safari on 3G is not very fast, even with Wifi network. HSPA alone is not the reason for me to upgrade.

By: Plenty of new features in iPhone 3G S « Systems Engineering and RDBMS

Plenty of new features in iPhone 3G S « Systems Engineering and RDBMS — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:49:39 +0000

[...] the network that supports it is aweful. You can read more on that on Om Malik’s blog. And here is another post at gigaom which talks about how AT&T’s new network may not help the old [...]

By: jim

jim — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:22:19 +0000

CDMA issue notwithstanding, Apple should get the 3GS on Verizon. Just put that dual CDMA/GSM Qualcomm chip that RIM uses in the darn thing a get access to VZW’s sweet demographics and 86 million potential new customers!

yeah, I know ATT has some exclusivity, but their network just ruins the iphone experience. Apple knew ATT had these issues and should have made network and customer service milestones a condition of their iphone exclusivity renewal.

By: B

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:01:03 +0000

This makes me further unhappy and I severely wish another carrier would pick up the iPhone in the US. ATT wouldn’t dare treat us like this if they had competition.

By: Steven Roussey

Steven Roussey — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:23:21 +0000

It is the *upload* speed that really matters at this point. And the original 3G didn’t have the fast HSUPA upload (it still uses EDGE), thus there is a lot of latency in downloading something like a webpage with many requests.