My iPhone fell off the EDGE of the world last night

Doylestown3gMy posting was light yesterday as Barb and I were meeting with our potential wedding photographer. We loved the work he showed us and signed our contract, so that’s one less thing to do before November 8th! The studio was just outside the Borough of Doylestown and our appointment was over around dinnertime, so we drove in to the "big city" for some fine Italian food. Well, as fine as you can have while still dressed in jeans and an Adidas top, that is.

During a rare lull in the food I went to check e-mail on my iPhone but kept getting an error message that the server wasn’t responding. I thought it was odd, but didn’t stop to really look into it. Instead, I went to the web and found the same issues. Hmm… five bars of signal strength: check. And then it hit me: I saw something that I never saw before. Actually, it’s what I didn’t see for the first time ever: no "E" next to the AT&T, which meant no EDGE service. HUH?

I’m lucky to be in an area that’s pretty well covered by the major wireless carriers, but this was a first for me. Ironically, as the AT&T coverage map here shows, they’ve got Doylestown blanketed in HSDPA for 3G. Maybe the Italian place has lead-lined shielding in the walls? I even asked Barb to fire up her iPhone thinking that mine had some issues… same deal for hers. Definitely a strange experience for me… but a good one for the Italian place… I ordered a second glass of Merlot to cope.

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