iPhone 3G

by **Frank The Bunny** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:08 am

Did anybody weather the lines to get one this week?

by **withahip** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:22 am

Is the US getting excited about technology the rest of the world has had for awhile? Kind of like digital tv?

by **JackT** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:25 am

withahip wrote:Is the US getting excited about technology the rest of the world has had for awhile? Kind of like digital tv?

No.

by **Frank The Bunny** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:25 am

has the rest of the world had the iPhone 3G for a while?

by **JackT** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:28 am

Frank The Bunny wrote:has the rest of the world had the iPhone 3G for a while?

...or digital TV, for that matter?

by **Dr Cheese** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 12:43 pm

Digital tv is ace, now I have hundreds of channels of moronic shite to choose from instead of just 5.

by **JackT** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 12:52 pm

Dr Cheese wrote:Digital tv is ace, now I have hundreds of channels of moronic shite to choose from instead of just 5.

Hell yeah. I'll watch anything if it's HD.

by **blinkilite** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:03 pm

Frank The Bunny wrote:has the rest of the world had the iPhone 3G for a while?

i thought the iPhone 3G release was worldwide - and why they had some programming problems overloading the servers with all the new people activating their phones...

i'm curious for some first hand reviews... i'd like to get one, but probably will wait a while. my cell phone contract goes till 2009, so i'll probably wait till then

by **JackT** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:14 pm

blinkilite wrote:i'm curious for some first hand reviews...

If only there were a resource where you could find stuff like reviews of the iPhone. Oh well, maybe some day.

by **withahip** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:37 pm

JackT wrote:...or digital TV, for that matter?

Well you gotta remember I was in Japan. Digital tv since the 90s, using cellphones to buy train tickets, groceries and soft drinks from soda machines, video chat on cellphones,

Africa and Europe have had it for awhile

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3G#Impleme ... nd_history

by **JackT** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:46 pm

withahip wrote:. Digital tv since the 90s,

Yes, so have we. OTA ATSC was rolled out in 1997 in the US. The digital TV standard Japan had back in the '90s was scrapped and a new one is in the process of adoption. I don't know how widely adopted the original one was.

You think Europe has had digital TV longer that we have? And Africa?

by **JackT** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:10 pm

withahip wrote:Is the US getting excited about technology the rest of the world has had for awhile? Kind of like digital tv?

Here's a picture of them lining up for the iPhone 3G in Japan

by **Mr. Brian** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:20 pm

withahip wrote:Well you gotta remember I was in Japan. Digital tv since the 90s, using cellphones to buy train tickets, groceries and soft drinks from soda machines, video chat on cellphones,

The Japanese have long had the technology to cut through shoe leather and cans AND still slice bread so thin you could see through it! With the same knife! Check this shit out...

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by **JackT** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:53 pm

Mr. Brian wrote:The Japanese have long had the technology to cut through shoe leather and cans AND still slice bread so thin you could see through it! With the same knife! Check this shit out...

OMG it's like the future is already here....

by **withahip** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:25 pm

JackT wrote:Yes, so have we. OTA ATSC was rolled out in 1997 in the US. The digital TV standard Japan had back in the '90s was scrapped and a new one is in the process of adoption. I don't know how widely adopted the original one was.

You think Europe has had digital TV longer that we have? And Africa?

No -
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The first pre-commercial 3G network was launched by NTT DoCoMo in Japan branded FOMA, in May of 2001 on a pre-release of W-CDMA technology. The first commercial launch of 3G was also by NTT DoCoMo in Japan on October 1, 2001. The second network to go commercially live was by SK Telecom in South Korea on the CDMA2000 1xEV-DO technology in January 2002. By May 2002 the second South Korean 3G network was launched by KTF on EV-DO and thus the Koreans were the first to see competition among 3G operators.

The first European pre-commercial network was at the Isle of Man by Manx Telecom, the operator owned by British Telecom, and the first commercial network in Europe was opened for business by Telenor in December 2001 with no commercial handsets and thus no paying customers. These were both on the W-CDMA technology.

The first commercial United States 3G network was by Monet Mobile Networks, on CDMA2000 1x EV-DO technology, but this network provider later shut down operations. The second 3G network operator in the USA was Verizon in October 2003 also on CDMA2000 1x EV-DO, and this network has grown strongly since then.

JackT wrote:Yes, so have we. OTA ATSC was rolled out in 1997 in the US. The digital TV standard Japan had back in the '90s was scrapped and a new one is in the process of adoption. I don't know how widely adopted the original one was.

You think Europe has had digital TV longer that we have? And Africa?

Yes, but I was actually watching digital broadcasts in the 90s there.

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