My iPhone is great except for one thing... AT&T. There are many places even in my area close to the east coast that don’t get a decent signal.
Apple will have to go with Verizon to keep their lead in the smart phone industry.
My iPhone is great except for one thing... AT&T. There are many places even in my area close to the east coast that don’t get a decent signal.
Apple will have to go with Verizon to keep their lead in the smart phone industry.
I hear that T-Mobile is coming on board next. And that makes sense since it's a GSM phone network... (and that's the network which most of the world uses).
GSM (Global System for Mobile communications: originally from Groupe Spécial Mobile) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. Its promoter, the GSM Association, estimates that 80% of the global mobile market uses the standard. GSM is used by over 3 billion people across more than 212 countries and territories. Its ubiquity makes international roaming very common between mobile phone operators, enabling subscribers to use their phones in many parts of the world. GSM differs from its predecessors in that both signaling and speech channels are digital, and thus is considered a second generation (2G) mobile phone system. This has also meant that data communication was easy to build into the system. GSM EDGE is a 3G version of the protocol.
Now..., later on, Apple may supply a combo-chip that will access a variety of networks. I hear that may be coming a ways down the line from some reading I've done on it. In that case, then one would be able to hook up to the "minority network" in the world which has the other 20% of the mobile market...
Right now, the Apple iPhone is doing good to start off with the mobile network that 80% of the world's mobile phones use... :-)