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**Apparpsmose** · 06-21-2007, 04:27 AM

I'm not really impressed by the iPhone. It simply lacks features a demanding European customer wants. Sure it looks fancy, but N95 or E90 is the way to go.

Why no EU provider wants to sell the iPhone? Because for EU networks, technologically wise, it's a step back. UMTS is the way forward and iPhone doesn't have it. It doesn't have integrated GPS. There will be huge earnings from Mobile Phone Navigation Maps. When you want to download a country's map to the phone, you want it downloaded fast (E90 has HSDPA up to 3.6Mbit/s) not get old while downloading maps with EDGE (cca. 64kbit/s)

iPhone just doesn't deliver.

EDGE has a common deployment theoretical speed of 240 kbps, And real world typical speeds of 100~120 kbps.

Many networks in Europe support HSDPA with a 7.2 Mbps theoretical DL speed. However the performance differences 1.8, 3.6 and 7.2 Mbps are minimal, as they all tend to hover around a "typical" advertised connection speed of 400~700 kbps.

Just thought you might like to know. However the iPhone being an Edge device is pretty lame, in that regard it's seriously outdated from the get go.

06-21-2007, 04:27 AM	#22
Apparpsmose Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 524 Senior Member	I'm not really impressed by the iPhone. It simply lacks features a demanding European customer wants. Sure it looks fancy, but N95 or E90 is the way to go. Why no EU provider wants to sell the iPhone? Because for EU networks, technologically wise, it's a step back. UMTS is the way forward and iPhone doesn't have it. It doesn't have integrated GPS. There will be huge earnings from Mobile Phone Navigation Maps. When you want to download a country's map to the phone, you want it downloaded fast (E90 has HSDPA up to 3.6Mbit/s) not get old while downloading maps with EDGE (cca. 64kbit/s) iPhone just doesn't deliver. EDGE has a common deployment theoretical speed of 240 kbps, And real world typical speeds of 100~120 kbps. Many networks in Europe support HSDPA with a 7.2 Mbps theoretical DL speed. However the performance differences 1.8, 3.6 and 7.2 Mbps are minimal, as they all tend to hover around a "typical" advertised connection speed of 400~700 kbps. Just thought you might like to know. However the iPhone being an Edge device is pretty lame, in that regard it's seriously outdated from the get go.
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