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> Really, how useful was a 2g (Edge) iPhone without a wifi connection? It was sufficient to do most things, even streaming online radio. The biggest downsides
by randomdata 6y ago
> Really, how useful was a 2g (Edge) iPhone without a wifi connection?
It was sufficient to do most things, even streaming online radio. The biggest downsides were that latency was high and the annoying speaker buzz problem. 3G was a big step up. I never felt like LTE came as much of an upgrade over 3G, from there user point of view, so I question it being the defining technology for smartphones.
- kalleboo 6y agoYeah, the early LTE networks were not much faster than the mature HSDPA+ networks from the end user point of view. But it was certainly a necessary evolution to give the networks enough capacity to handle the ever-increasing data demands of users, 3G would not have held up for much longer.