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People who argue about numbers or bullet points are probably unaware of the

2007-06-06 10:52:40

bigger picture and what difference customers will actually see.

14/01/2007

I can UNDERSTAND why Apple thinks HSDPA is not necessary for their iPhone. Most

people will not use it. And the iPhone is not a notebook. But please state the

real reason and don't start the "Apple Distortion Field" and try to tell us

that EDGE is as fast as 3G. There is a difference and customers WILL actually

see it.

In theory EDGE seems almost as fast, but I can assure you that in the real

world, HSDPA/3G is the only game in town that FEELS like a normal broadband

connection.

I work for mobile phone operator. We have tried to push people to use data

services on their mobile devices for years now. Why? Because we charge enormous

amounts of money for data and it makes us a lot of money.

In all our commercials we promised people broadband expierience. Up until we

had HSDPA/3G, we KNEW that we were fooling everybody. We advertised EDGE-speeds

that were only realistic if you live under a GSM-antenna. It's only with HSDPA/

3G (and i've done a lot of testing) that we don't have to lie anymore. HSDPA is

really fasters and customers notice it (certainly those customers that use

their cellphone as a modem for their laptop.

Even HP starts selling notebooks with the HSDPA chip in it. Not EDGE. Why?

Because only HSDPA is relly workable. But then again, the iPhone is no

notebook, maybe apple prefers putting 3G in its notebooks?