EDGE has me on EDGE.

[DreaminDirector]

I totally agree. I love the iphone, but HATE and I mean HATE ATT. I have dropped more calls in the last 10 days than I did with my previous carrier in the past 5 years.

ATT is a joke.

I totally agree with you as well. I've have horrible service around the east bay area. I get a dropped call nearly once each day. In my apartment, I got a 64kbs score at iphonenetworktest.com.

BUT I love my iPhone. It's the greatest Love/Hate relationship I've ever had.

 

[drchipinski]

I totally agree with you as well. I've have horrible service around the east bay area. I get a dropped call nearly once each day. In my apartment, I got a 64kbs score at iphonenetworktest.com.

BUT I love my iPhone. It's the greatest Love/Hate relationship I've ever had.

That is EXACTLY how I feel. Iphone is by far the best gadget/phone I have ever owned...too bad I cannot use it half the time due to coverage "issues"

 

[kdarling]

honestly in a place like manhattan, there is no excuse for not having wall to wall wifi.

So it would seem. But unlike wide open areas, they're dealing with really thick buildings all over the place

Figure you'd need a hotspot at least at each intersection (200 streets x 12 avenues = 2400 hotspots) plus probably one in the middle of each long block = another 2400.

But, like Khan in his stolen spaceship, we're only thinking in two dimensions. Manhattan offices tend to be REALLY HIGH. So now we need more hotspots to cut through buildings. Maybe even one per floor per building. So now we're probably talking a hundred thousand hotspots needed.

Sounds easy until you realize how complex and signal resistant the darned place is. That's why they couldn't even tell the firemen, bless them, to leave the Towers in time.

 

[Sobe]

So it would seem. But unlike wide open areas, they're dealing with really thick buildings all over the place

Figure you'd need a hotspot at least at each intersection (200 streets x 12 avenues = 2400 hotspots) plus probably one in the middle of each long block = another 2400.

But, like Khan in his stolen spaceship, we're only thinking in two dimensions. Manhattan offices tend to be REALLY HIGH. So now we need more hotspots to cut through buildings. Maybe even one per floor per building. So now we're probably talking a hundred thousand hotspots needed.

Sounds easy until you realize how complex and signal resistant the darned place is. That's why they couldn't even tell the firemen, bless them, to leave the Towers in time.

just stick a wireless access point on every taxi cab.

problem solved!

 

[kdarling]

Which phones come with these browsers installed?

I've seen the Picsel browser on pre-retail Samsung i760s and at least one other device in production. Gosh, what was it? Mostly Japanese phones. Damned chemotherapy last year took away some of my short term memory. Oh well, I'll think of it.

I'm excited to see so many tools for mobile devices. I'm unexcited that there's so many different browser implementations.

But if we ever ended up with just one, then innovation stops. We know that from experience. So we must resign ourselves to constant browser battles.

 

[kdarling]

just stick a wireless access point on every taxi cab.

problem solved!