EDGE to double its speed

outsideroutsider
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in iPhone edited January 2014
http://gizmodo.com/372868/edge-doubles-its-speed



Coming 3rd quarter of 2008. This has got to be good news for current iPhone owners worried that their phones will be completely obsolete after the 3G iPhones are released later this year. And it appears that this is a network side upgrade with no changes needed on the client side at all.

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  • Reply 1 of 8
    olternautolternaut Posts: 1,376member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Outsider View Post


    http://gizmodo.com/372868/edge-doubles-its-speed



    Coming 3rd quarter of 2008. This has got to be good news for current iPhone owners worried that their phones will be completely obsolete after the 3G iPhones are released later this year. And it appears that this is a network side upgrade with no changes needed on the client side at all.



    Let me ask the obvious question. How would EDGE at double its speed compare to a 3G network?
  • Reply 2 of 8
    outsideroutsider Posts: 6,008member
    Well NSN says that mobile devices on the double-EDGE network can have download speeds of up to 1.2 Mbps while 3G currently offers speeds up to 2.0Mbps. These numbers vary depending on what source but the general consensus is that 3G is 2Mbps.



    http://www.informationaddicts.com/ar...edge-and-hsdpa
  • Reply 3 of 8
    dfilerdfiler Posts: 3,420member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Outsider View Post


    http://gizmodo.com/372868/edge-doubles-its-speed

    This has got to be good news for current iPhone owners worried that their phones will be completely obsolete after the 3G iPhones are released later this year.



    Good new? Yes.



    But devices don't become obsolete simply because a better alternative exists. Perhaps what you meant to say was: Techno-weenies won't have as much gadget-envy when 3G iPhones are eventually released.
  • Reply 4 of 8
    outsideroutsider Posts: 6,008member
    I know but with all the gnashing of teeth you hear about the 'slow' speed of EDGE compared to 3G, this will quell some of the hot heads.
  • Reply 5 of 8
    thttht Posts: 5,606member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Olternaut View Post


    Let me ask the obvious question. How would EDGE at double its speed compare to a 3G network?



    Well it depends on the 3G network. It could vary from 384 kbit/s to 7.2 Mbit/s (and theoretically maxes out at 14.4 Mbit/s). ATT's UMTS/HSPA network is around 1.5 to 2 MBit/s from what I hear. 3 to 4 times slower. On iPhone, I think 300 to 400 kbit/s download is more than enough for 90% of the usage cases that it has.



    If music and video can be downloaded to the iPhone over the carrier's data network, than obviously, you want to get as much bandwidth as you can get.
  • Reply 6 of 8
    thttht Posts: 5,606member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Outsider View Post


    Coming 3rd quarter of 2008. This has got to be good news for current iPhone owners worried that their phones will be completely obsolete after the 3G iPhones are released later this year. And it appears that this is a network side upgrade with no changes needed on the client side at all.



    Well, NSN can offer it all they want. But I imagine carriers want to get as many customers on UMTS/HSPA as possible in order to recoup the cost of investing in the network. Offering a bandwidth increase on EDGE would be an interesting proposition as it would effectively delay that. Will they view it as a low investment for data service money? Or as a risk to the UMTS/HSPA network they are building out on?
  • Reply 7 of 8
    xian zhu xuandexian zhu xuande Posts: 801member
    I love how people worry about the horrors of what will happen to their iPhone as soon as 3G comes out. It will still be the exact same product they have been enjoying all along, if not improved further with a software update...
  • Reply 8 of 8
    dfilerdfiler Posts: 3,420member
    Will power consumption go up with the edge speed upgrade?
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