[Geowanking] iPhone Geolocating technology?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Mika Raento wrote:

> stephen white kirjoitti:
>> On 11/01/2007, at 3:06 PM, Kevin Elliott wrote:
>>> I understand, but many areas are picking up EVDO, and UMTS/HSDPA. Many 
>>> countries are participating in the program. Sure, this iPhone will WORK on 
>>> GPRS/EDGE, but don't expect total enjoyment of downloadable music and 
>>> video. Since this is suppose to be the ultimate ipod w/ phone that 
>>> consumes network, shouldn't we be able to use a 3G network?
>
> This of course has little to do with geolocation, but after a couple of years 
> of major frustration with trying to build IP-based applications I just need 
> to vent:
>
> 3G/UMTS is nowhere near working! Moving around in central Helsinki, an E61 
> drops the network fully or switches between 2G and 3G (dropping TCP 
> connections) every few minutes. Establishing calls may take 5 tries.

EVDO works nicely but it's very obvious when you fall back to 1xRTT. Also, 
while I picked up a PRL to allow Verizon (1xRTT only) data roaming, and it 
works, it appears to not autoswitch, I have to make a new connection)

Sadly, for us anyway, no CDMA yet. But, I understand the decision.