“The absence of a 3G iPhone from Apple’s product portfolio has been a hot topic amongst investors, but any concerns in that department are currently a bit overblown, says a new report from one Wall Street analyst,” Slash Lane reports for AppleInsider.
“In a brief research note to client investors on Monday, American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu said he’s frequently asked about the lack of a 3G iPhone and what it means for Apple. He explained, however, that he sees these ongoing concerns as ‘overdone and misplaced’ at present, and outlined four key data points in defense of his beliefs,” Lane reports.
• 3G (WCDMA/UMTS/HSPA) is still a relatively niche technology and not widely deployed in the US
• 3G is not as field tested as 2/2.5G
• Costs of 3G iPhone parts would also be somewhat steep
• 3G Battery Hog: 3G requires about 35-40 percent more power than 2/2.5G
More in the full article here.
Reminds me of a scene from Dead Poets Society.
“This Zune wants to fly!”
Alright ChrissyOne, how’s this:
Wow these new Zunes look great! I can’t wait to get one. It gives the tired and stale I-POD a run for its money. My Zune friends are so happy they can’t wait to tall others about it.
Your potential. Our passion.™
@C1: Thanks for the update. I’m betting the ZT doesn’t even own a Zune.
@ Spark
I’m sure you’re right. But it’s still a pretty safe bet.
@ Zune Tang
Right on queue.
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I remember in Animal House, these 2 guys were hitting gold balls and one of them it a horse in the ass.
Gates falls off of Ballmer and Ballmer runs off dragging Gates in tow. LOL
Now that’s comedy!!
Geez. I can’t spell today. I better cut back on the Red Bulls.
MDN and Microsoft are alike. They both impose a slow, bloated and poorly designed product on frustrated users to make quick $.
C1:
Right on queue (sic)? Your posts are always so exact in spelling and grammar. Am I missing another clever play on words? Or was it just a brain fart?
Dang! Then I type (sic) rather than [sic].
I think I’m going to get an iPod touch instead of an iPhone after Apple releases an updated model. It needs to have a slightly larger screen, 32GB of RAM, and be marketed as a “real” computer instead of a media player with a cool interface. I think I’ll be OK with carrying it around, along with a separate small basic phone from any carrier I want (one that I can abuse without concern).
“Tell” – not “Tall”
(Chrissy-One and ZuneTang)
just a typo.
thx
PS – iPod Nano has already won this bet
Samantha. C1 made a typo and ZT took the piss out of it. Don’t you get it? It’s all friendly banter.
If they just would have gone CDMA (Verizon/Sprint) no one would be complaining.
The 3G issue is for technojerks whose existence is predicated on pretending they are early adopters. No one gave a rats behind about mobile download speeds prior to the iPhone. No one at all, because the mobile web experience until that point was sheer torture. Now that Apple has a game changing, what-the-Hell-was-everyone-else-doing-for-the-last-20-years phone, everyone thinks they are an expert on technologies that had almost ZERO effect on the average consumer until August 2007?
Gales of derisive laughter, Bruce.
If Apple came out with a thought control interface for a 6 gigahertz mobile computer with a terabyte of storage that fit in a pen, the usual collection of pundits would bemoan the fact that it didn’t give you the weather on Venus and was incapable of reprogramming the users DNA.
” . . . that it didn’t give you the weather on Venus . . .”
Well, at least the Venusians have moved on from arguing about global warming.
“3G is a failure,” according to Rethink Research analyst, Caroline Gabriel.
Thanks to Gzero (above). See the full article here:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/25/technology/proto26.php
or
http://tinyurl.com/3a5cey
Wow, a woman who owns a set of golf clubs, and knows which brand, who hates zunes and loves all things Mac. I bet you don’t have any trouble finding a date!
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The Venusians are all talking about their acid rain problem. They also just found out they have lightning.
It wasn’t a typo, it was a brain fart.
And KenC, you should see me on a motorcycle.
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ME: ‘says’ (I miss my Magic Words)
MW, not ME. THAT was a typo.
Chrissyone woke up.
Shepard Steve’s flock are so not used to having the latest technology that using last decade’s cellular protocols in the product shouldn’t hurt sales at all. Provided it has a picture of a fruit on it somewhere they’ll continue to buy.
“Provided it has a picture of a fruit on it somewhere they’ll continue to buy.”
Are you offering a self-portrait?