On 2008-02-29, Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:
> iPhone only uses EDGE, not 3G, for internet, so that would limit its use
> and attractiveness in most other places, like Europe for instance, where
> users are used to the much higher speeds of 3G broadband, instead of just-
> a-little-faster-than-dialup of EDGE. It'll work on the GSM as a sellphone,
> but not on 3G as a high speed internet device...........yet.
>
> That's why it doesn't sell well in European markets, cracked or
> uncracked....besides being hobbled, of course, into a WebTV device.

That also might have something to do with why it seems to sell
so fantastically well in China, where Edge is currently as good
as it gets. If China Mobile's numbers can be trusted there are more
hacked iPhones in use in China than there are unhacked iPhones signed
up for service in the European countries where it is available.

Dennis Ferguson