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Originally Posted by texasranger
You greatly underestimate edge. If you have full bars, it's just as fast as normal cable internet. Plus, there's wifi.
And i can't find a 16 GB SD card that is affordable. they cost like 300 bucks.
in response to 3, there are over 10,000 youtube videos on the iphone.
as i just said like 2 posts ago, the iphone HAS a keyboard, and works BETTER than physical (and cheezy) cell phone keyboards. Before you consider buying this "Kaiser", make sure that it has good battery life–3G is very battery inefficient.
and lastly, you did NOT consider the phone plan in the price. I'm comparing the bestselling smartphones with equal plans. Go to my other post and see that link.
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16 GB SD cards are expensive. What does that have to do with this discussion?
That said, EDGE is terribly slow. With a theoretical maximum of 473.6 kbit/s for EDGE there is no way it can get close to touching my cable modem. I just ran a speed test and got 6065Kbit/s down and 672 Kbit/s up. HSDPA provides down-link speeds of up to 14.4 Mbit/s theoretically. How is EDGE anywhere near that?
And as far as that other website goes, their conclusions are junk. The second sentence shows their obvious bias before we get to any data. They say the TyTn costs $860 vs the iPhone $600, but the TyTn (branded as the Cingular 8525) is $299 with contract, or $599 without direct from ATT. The same goes for the rest of the prices they list, with the ones I checked being at the least $130 more than they are available for.
As for plans, the
iPhone plans are exactly the same as
the regular plans according to ATT, with the exception of the unlimited data plan for the iPhone listed as $20 vs the $19.99 for the other smart phones. Oh, and you have a choice to get the data plan or not with non iPhones.
Apple fanboys spread just as much FUD as MS fanboys.
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