While the iPhone’s EDGE capabilities appear to be slow, it’s rendering of web pages makes up for difference in speed between EDGE and 3G. Here is a video of the iPhone on EDGE, and a Nokia E61i on 3G. You can clearly see that both of their loading bars end at around the same time, with the iPhone finishing before the E61i loading eBay. If the iPhone had 3G, it would blow all other 3G devices away in website loading times.
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Written by Ken Allen on December 11th, 2007 with no comments.
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Either things aren’t going to plan in Apple’s product development lab, or the company’s PR people are working overtime; Mehdi Hosseini, an analyst with Friedman Billings Ramsey & Co. Inc, is quoted as saying that the second-generation (e.g. 3G) iPhone has been pushed back “from the March/April time frame to mid to late summer” [via MacNN]. It comes not long after AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson confirmed that Apple would be releasing a 3G iPhone come 2008, which has led some to suspect that the Cupertino-based manufacturer are attempting to rescue their holiday sales by casting doubt on the availability of the next-generation handset.
 
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Written by Chris Davies on December 4th, 2007 with no comments.
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Should you be expected to pay for something if you are unable to use it? That’s one of the questions currently causing no small amount of frustration over at deafmac, as they remonstrate with AT&T with regards the lack of a data-only plan for the iPhone. Chad Taylor contacted AT&T when he noticed they were offering a voice-only version of the Apple contract, to point out that it smacked of discrimination for deaf users to whom inclusive minutes are useless. The carrier responded first by pointing him in the direction of another handset that can be bought with a deaf-friendly plan, and then withdrew the voice-only option leaving the cheapest iPhone contract at $59.99 a month.
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Written by Chris Davies on November 29th, 2007 with no comments.
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Seemingly solid confirmation that Apple have a 3G iPhone waiting - or at least being polished up - in the wings for a 2008 launch came this week from AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, and with it a rise in Apple stock price from $180.22 to in excess of $184. The 3G handset, which is set to answer criticisms from reviewers and consumers alike as to the mediocre data access speeds of the original, EDGE-based iPhone, is rumoured to utilise the low-power Broadcom BCM21551 chipset announced in October, which packs 7.2Mbps HSDPA and graphics processing onto a single chip.
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Written by Chris Davies on November 29th, 2007 with no comments.
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According to the iPhone dev team, a SecPack has been extracted from firmware version 1.1.2 making it possible to re-flash the baseband of the phone after it has been unlocked.
This means that unlocking software can now revirginize your phone with 1.1.2 and bring it back to it’s original state before unlocking the phone.
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Written by Ken Allen on November 10th, 2007 with no comments.
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