(almost) 1 month iPhone gripe
1 month iPhone review.
3g. Or rather, lack thereof. EDGE is blowing chunks.
Wifi is not necessarily a good replacement for 3g either, as I've stated in various fashions on one of my MR posts, and I quote:
Are you saying widespread 802.16 deployment is that imminent?
Or that it's cheap and easy to deploy wifi mesh networks?
and:
Nothing is free. Nor is a mesh network cheap. Or free. Or necessarily secure. Or free. (repeat 100x)
Personally, I'd worry about security concerns with public and open wireless networks, given some of the IDIOTIC decisions made by the iPhone team at apple in regards to that little (or, maybe not so little) aspect.
and:
Honestly. To all those iPhone users out there who have miraculously free wifi wherever they go (that don't live in a place like mountain view [with google wifi])...where do you live and what do you do to get free wifi? I've had a laptop since forever, I've had mobile devices with wifi, I now have my iPhone...I have never encountered such a plethora of open usable networks such as the ones you people here are describing. Never. Never over years of having wifi on my laptops.
So, cough it up folks. I want in on your free wifi secrets. Cause it's so much more available than 3g in Los Angeles, apparently, and I can drive/walk around and still use it whenever I want to.
~
On a sidenote, LJ was down for a few hours yesterday...fun outage. Can't believe some of the lies some sites are making up to cover for 365 Main's idiocy in regards to backup generators.
3g. Or rather, lack thereof. EDGE is blowing chunks.
Wifi is not necessarily a good replacement for 3g either, as I've stated in various fashions on one of my MR posts, and I quote:
Are you saying widespread 802.16 deployment is that imminent?
Or that it's cheap and easy to deploy wifi mesh networks?
and:
Nothing is free. Nor is a mesh network cheap. Or free. Or necessarily secure. Or free. (repeat 100x)
Personally, I'd worry about security concerns with public and open wireless networks, given some of the IDIOTIC decisions made by the iPhone team at apple in regards to that little (or, maybe not so little) aspect.
and:
Honestly. To all those iPhone users out there who have miraculously free wifi wherever they go (that don't live in a place like mountain view [with google wifi])...where do you live and what do you do to get free wifi? I've had a laptop since forever, I've had mobile devices with wifi, I now have my iPhone...I have never encountered such a plethora of open usable networks such as the ones you people here are describing. Never. Never over years of having wifi on my laptops.
So, cough it up folks. I want in on your free wifi secrets. Cause it's so much more available than 3g in Los Angeles, apparently, and I can drive/walk around and still use it whenever I want to.
~
On a sidenote, LJ was down for a few hours yesterday...fun outage. Can't believe some of the lies some sites are making up to cover for 365 Main's idiocy in regards to backup generators.