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O2 can barely provide the advertised speeds for normal data browsing i wonder how they expect to cope with tethering
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Posted: 2009-06-10 16:01:32
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...or when they'll provide 7.2mbit HSDPA
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Posted: 2009-06-10 16:05:34
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It is just amazing how Apple pick the two most seemingly unequipped networks for US and UK. I'm positive any other network wouldn't bodge-job the iPhone releases/tariffs. AT&T are absolutely years behind other US networks, Apple to a certain extent have to hold back on network related stuff as AT&T just wont be able to support it. How crap is that! NO MMS for AT&T until late summer? Why the feck not? They should be fully prepared and equipped! ie Banning people from using Skype over 3G?! WTF! O2 charging more for a crappy tethering bolt-on than they do for their own mobile broadband!?!?
These company's make so much money, especially reselling a premium handset like the iPhone you would think they could get the network up to speed, tariffs sorted out and not just be thinking about culling £$£$£ of people for nothing
/rantover
Best speed i've ever seen on my iPhone over 3G is 1.5mbps, some way off the 3.6mbps... let alone 7.2mbps on the 3GS.
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Posted: 2009-06-10 16:17:46
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Does anyone know what the business tariffs are?
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Posted: 2009-06-10 16:17:49
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O2 aren't great on some things and I think they're pricing is well off the mark on the new phones, but I don't understand the upgrade arguments. They're simply doing what they'd with any other phone, and expecting people (quite fairly) to wait out their contracts. If you bought a pay monthly 3G from them then you got it at a hefty discount, and its that subsidy you're paying back now over the term of your 18-24 month contract - if they write that off now they're simply robbing themselves.
So what if Apple have brought out a new model after a year - who's surprised by that? Who honestly bought an iPhone at any point in the last year thinking Apple weren't ever going to improve on it? Which phone manufacturer doesn't update its lineup at least once a year, regardless of whichever ridiculous length of contract the networks are favouring now?
Yes it would be nice if they offered cheap upgrades like they did last time, but let's not lie to ourselves, we all KNOW that they only offered the cheaper upgrade then because owners of the original iPhone had already paid the FULL cost of the device - their phones weren't subsidised at all so they owed the networks nothing. We on the otherhand have had our big saving on the phone up front and now we have to pay for it over the course of the contracts we signed - that's just how it works.
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Posted: 2009-06-10 16:32:25
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Yeah tbh, I feel the arguments for the upgrades from O2 are a little unwarranted, people do seem to forget that the 2G was not subsidised by O2 and just expect the network to follow suit every year a new device is released.
However, I agree with the arguments of the tariff prices and the tethering costs. Obsurd to say the least. Apple mentioned the iPhone being more affordable. Yeah, that's a proper lol moment.
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Posted: 2009-06-10 16:48:30
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you will never reach the claimed speed of a device, in this case with iphone 3gs, 7.2mbps, even if the network supports 7.2mbps.
you will always reach at least a couple mbps less!
with 3 here, with our mobile broadband for example, the 3.6mbps modems, currently max at about 1.5mbps, and the network is currently at 3.6mbps. once it us upgraded to 7.2mbps, the modems speed should jump to about 2.5mbps, where as the 7.2mbps modem 3 stock will dl at about 4.5-5mbps. why? i dont really know
just how it is. at least here.
wonder how the new iphone will go on Telstra's network, all 21mbps of it!
telstra claim that real world performance would offer "typical download speeds ranging up to 8Mbps."
http://whirlpool.net.au/news/?id=1835
id safely say speed shouldnt be an issue! but they change a premium for it!
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Posted: 2009-06-10 16:49:28
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Superluminova Posts: > 500
Kinda lost with this one, as i think it looks like an in-between product release.
As its not got a lot of new hardware and the design is... well the exact same, i wouldn't be to surprise to see apple announce another iPhone later this year or early 2010.
Anyone know if i'll be able to get it to work on Vodafone UK?
lol
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Posted: 2009-06-10 16:54:51
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apparantly the internals are quite different, especially the processor
The first thing I will be trying is my little thing (can't remember what its called) that slots in with the SIM card and makes the iphone unlocked (but only while its in with the sim).
its worked fine for all V2.x releases so fingers crossed for 3.0 as then I can continue to use it, as needed, on tmob and also Telstra when back home in oz
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Posted: 2009-06-10 16:57:14
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Superluminova Posts: > 500
Is that a turbo sim your talking about?
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Posted: 2009-06-10 17:04:31
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