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Hyer
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Thought maybe it was my phone, so I restarted it, now only 3kb!
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Jerry Raia
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Guess this thing is not going to be a <insert name here> killer.
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Kris Kumar
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:41 am Post subject: |
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| Hyer wrote: |
| Thought maybe it was my phone, so I restarted it, now only 3kb! |
Yikes!
I guess the only way to fix this is to buy a $500 Apple toy and complain to AT&T about poor EDGE. Without the Apple toy I am afraid AT&T would not even listen to us. WinMo users are the untouchables on the network. 
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Kris Kumar
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| Jerry Raia wrote: |
| After the fun of sliding yor fingers all over the screen wears off, you will have a real nice paper weight to play with. |
At least they didn't put the music player buttons like HTC and others. But you are right it seems to me like the Vista experience. Vista looked really cool to me at first, refreshing change from the dull looking XP and had some features that were worthy of the upgrade. But overall it has been an eye-wash.
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Kris Kumar
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:50 am Post subject: Re: God Bless the i(Pod)Phone for Making AT&T Boost thei |
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| John Cody wrote: |
LOL - You'll notice that all of the iPhone commercials that show it viewing and zooming in on a webpage are of an *already loaded* webpage. The commercial would have been a 5 minute commercial if it tried to load the New York Times homepage in real time |
Good point. While they do show the phone doing everything else, the page is pre-loaded. I read somewhere else that Apple might have the popular site banner logos, and background etc. pre-cached on their mobile phone.
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Bohemian
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:12 pm Post subject: Re: God Bless the i(Pod)Phone for Making AT&T Boost thei |
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| vincenzosi wrote: |
I reckon it has something to do with sheer volume for one, and secondly I'd be willing to bet Apple did a little chipping in to make sure the EDGE network was up to snuff before launch. Truth is, the iPhone made a bigger wave on the industry than any other phone in history, love it or hate it.
When the 8525 launched, how many people lined up for it?
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When looking for quality and true functionality, I always look for the one the masses are flocking to.
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dstrauss
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SteveHoward999
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| Kris Kumar wrote: |
At least they didn't put the music player buttons like HTC and others. But you are right it seems to me like the Vista experience. Vista looked really cool to me at first, refreshing change from the dull looking XP and had some features that were worthy of the upgrade. But overall it has been an eye-wash. |
Most people turn off all that swishy, slidey, wobbly stuff pretty quickly.
I've been working in multimedia for about 10 years. After the Flash Explosion of 2000 or so, when we all learned to love the Skip The Effin Intro button, clients briefly asked for stuff that slid in and out, transitions everywhere etc etc. Then quickly got sick of them and asked for them to be taken out.
All those transitions slow things down, they are distracting, annoying, and add nothing to usability.
But they look cool.
For ten minutes.
Or on tv ads 
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djdj
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I feel bad for you Cingular/AT&T customers that have had to put up with bad speeds like that.
Doing the same test on my Dash with T-Mobile has given me results of 175, 186, 200, and 203 kbps the four times I ran it. (and it has been about that fast as long as I have had an EDGE capable phone) I had no idea that AT&T's EDGE had been so slow up until now. I'm sorry to hear you've been suffering with expensive slow data.
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