iPhone - The Hummer Of Cellphones
From The September 3, 2009 New York Times Business section
Customers Angered as iPhones Overload AT&T
By JENNA WORTHAM
Slim and sleek as it is, the iPhone is really the Hummer of cellphones.
It’s a data guzzler. Owners use them like minicomputers, which they are, and use them a lot. Not only do iPhone owners download applications, stream music and videos and browse the Web at higher rates than the average smartphone user, but the average iPhone owner can also use 10 times the network capacity used by the average smartphone user.
“They don’t even realize how much data they’re using,†said Gene Munster, a senior securities analyst with Piper Jaffray.
The result is dropped calls, s...
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Customers Angered as iPhones Overload AT&T
By JENNA WORTHAM
Slim and sleek as it is, the iPhone is really the Hummer of cellphones.
It’s a data guzzler. Owners use them like minicomputers, which they are, and use them a lot. Not only do iPhone owners download applications, stream music and videos and browse the Web at higher rates than the average smartphone user, but the average iPhone owner can also use 10 times the network capacity used by the average smartphone user.
“They don’t even realize how much data they’re using,†said Gene Munster, a senior securities analyst with Piper Jaffray.
The result is dropped calls, s...
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No shock here. This has been the case since the original iphone came out. Too much data pull on a lackluster 3G network.
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this was really needed to be posted on the Verizon forum? you already posted it on the att one as well.
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