Living in a digital world

iPhone – 3G, GPRS, EDGE, blah blah blah

There’s been a lot of moaning across the blogosphere for the past few days about the lack of 3G on the European iPhone.

The lack of 3G on the iPhone doesn’t matter and here’s why:

1. Honestly, how often do you use the mobile internet on your current 3G phone? thought so…hardly ever. It’s just too painful to use the web on most current phones. The interface is awkward, the screen is too small and it takes ages to type in urls and searchs.

2. EDGE (the standard on the iPhone) is about 2/3rds the speed of most 3G phones. Hardly a massive speed disadvantage.

3. Crucially, i’ve found that the browsing experience on my iPhone feels quicker than my old 3G phone. I put this down to the ease of use and the fact that most current Nokias’ have a woefully underpowerd CPU – the time it takes the Nokia to render web pages removes the slender advantage that 3G has.

4. The iPhone won’t download flash, so you don’t have to worry about it downloading huge animations that suck up your bandwidth.

5. WIFI is everywhere, the iPhone will connect to high speed wifi when it can, this means fast access at every coffee shop, airport, train station (and trains), thousands of pubs and from your next door neighbour who hasn’t secured his connection.

So, quit moaning about the lack of 3G and enjoy…

September 18, 2007 - Posted by robertjenkins | Uncategorized