Comments on: One More Example of How My iPhone’s Edge Network Sucks

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:30:00 +0000

now i’m wondering if the new Google platform will be better the iphone.

By: ChiliMac

ChiliMac — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:50:00 +0000

Thomas, the good news is a 3G IPhone is coming out in 2008. But I still think Zooomr will be slow to load on the phone until the mobile site gets rolled out to the US.

I’m curious, do you know if anyone has benchmarked IPhones EDGE vs a G3 device.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:01:00 +0000

Thomas… get yourself a Kyocera KR1 WiFi router, keep it in your car (it comes with a car charger), and plug the VZW EVDO card into it (works with ExpressCard & USB EVDO adaptors… I use it with the USB720)… you can then use WiFi on your iPhone to connect to that nice EVDO network. I did this about a month ago and life with the iPhone is much happier… between WiFi at home, public hotspots, and using the WiFi/EVDO connection in my car I rarely have to suffer through an EDGE connection anymore.

By: Jasmeet

Jasmeet — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:33:00 +0000

"I just wished they hadn't settled for Edge."

Options:

a)bad battery life
b)use CDMA, and end up with an even more hampered device (Verizon has been known
to cripple their phones) which leads to:

i)no market for europe and most of asia
ii)no roaming overseas

c)or you could just wonder if you're willing to pass on all the 'great' times you've had so far with it, in favor of waiting for a much better iPhone.

By: Hawk

Hawk — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:40:00 +0000

I have an AT&T; 8525 (that’s an HTC Hermes to you winmo dorks. I can call you dorks because I do support and testing for a windows mobile software company. ) and it has HSDPA/UMTS.

While neither of those is slow by any stretch of the imagination, there’s a stunning amount of ‘lag’ compared to a standard desktop broadband connection. Also, if your iPhone had the battery life of my 8525, you’d hate it even more than you hate it with EDGE.

By: Thomas Hawk

Thomas Hawk — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:57:00 +0000

why don't you switch to some other device that you won't complain about so much?

Because it's the best music/phone on the market right now. I just wished they hadn't settled for Edge.

By: b-man

b-man — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:41:00 +0000

Umm Thomas… Tech savvy people like yourself, knew Edge sucked before you bought the iPhone. I bought the iPhone knowing this as well. It sucks… but going on about it like its something new… getting kinda old…

By: brian

brian — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:18:00 +0000

starting to sound like a broken record on this one Thomas. we all know the edge network is slow. why don’t you switch to some other device that you won’t complain about so much?

By: dssstrkl

dssstrkl — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:52:00 +0000

Its interesting, because the relative suckiness of EDGE seems to vary greatly depending on where I am and what sites I’m trying to look at (big duhs for both). While I generally don’t have the shitty experience that you seem to get, when a page stops loading, I’ll try rotating the iphone. This is because the status bar gets much longer and gives a more accurate indication of how much is loaded.
I’m fairly impatient, so if the bar stops for more than a few seconds, I’ll reload and see what happens. If it gets stuck at the same point, I’ll either open a new tab and do something else, or I’ll just stick it in my pocket to see if it opens later.

Trying to play the Frenzic demo on EDGE kills.

By: Karoli

Karoli — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:46:00 +0000

I have AT&T; and EDGE, too. Most of the time it doesn’t suck as much as it does for you, but I’m guessing that’s because I’m using the Blackberry browser which is primarily text-based.

So..is there a Zooomr mobile site or something I should be bookmarking, because when I try to get to zooomr now, I can’t ever get past the open id sign in screen.