Apple iPhone
INternet
the iphone was released today and i was in line for three hours with my buddy and i kinda want one now but i was wondering if going on teh internet with edge ? does it use up your minutes?
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You have no clue at all if it's slow....you ASSUME it's slow. I use it all day long and it's far from slow. I just checked out one and while it's not blistering...it's far from slow so get over it. Oh...and with the iPhone plan, all internet usage is free and unlimited.
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Of course I have a clue since my contacts already have this phone before it actually was launched and played with it. They mentioned that it was slow especially compared to DO or HSDPA. (obviously.)
They mentioned that it takes on average of 30 seconds of downloading some web pages. I will obviously get a few of these Iphones and do my own testing. I also had EDGE before, well testing it, and it was slow. (of course it depends on a number of factors.)
They mentioned that it takes on average of 30 seconds of downloading some web pages. I will obviously get a few of these Iphones and do my own testing. I also had EDGE before, well testing it, and it was slow. (of course it depends on a number of factors.)
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🤣 30 seconds per page? PLEASE! Are they in the back woods of West Virginia? I bring up pages on my Blackjack, in Buffalo NY(no 3G), at about 8-12 seconds per page. In 3G areas I get about 2-3 seconds per page...about the same with my RoadRunner. My neighbors LG 8600 pulls up pages on an EVDO network at about 6-8 seconds per page. Remember...my statement WASN'T about the iPhone...it was about the perceived slow network. 3 or 4 seconds will not break you. Couple that with the fact Verizon customewr service sucks, you dont have to extend your contract JUST for changing plans, their crappy phones and the fact that their arrogance with phone manufacturers about their UI and you have a colplete winner in AT&T. I used to work for the evi...
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Yep. At least. Many of the people who now have the IPHONE who are my contacts are now saying it is a little bit more than that and it depends on which website.
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That 30-second average has to deal with the ideal factors (plus it was beta) so this obviously might not be reached as more and more people are going to be using the EDGE network. I bet that average will go into the one min range as more users will be on the network, which will hurt that outcome.
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Of course they've almost doubled the speed of Edge, just as iphone was released. Also I have a Nokia E62 with Symbian operating system, which smokes Windows. I've tried it & cingular 8125 @ same time. Symbiam takes less than half as long to pull up flying J web page, which is fairly grafical. So maybe its not so much the Network as it is the operating system on phone. The Apple is as fast as Symbian & just as easy to use! 😉
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Sprint does not use minutes for web use! They haven't billed like that since before they rolled out 3G (years ago). There is a casual (per k) rate for dtat transfer if you have an old plan without Vision built-in or added. Other than that, most of the rate plans with the data packs give you unlimited data/web use.
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