http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/ Engadget Mobile Comments for iPhone report: most owners left Treos, Sidekicks behind http://www.engadgetmobile.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgetmobile.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/Oct 15th 2007 8:57PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/Oct 15th 2007 10:10PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/Do we need so many iPhone stories? It would be crazy if we went ONE day without the iPhone appearing!]]>Oct 15th 2007 10:43PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/
Everyday there is at least one iPhone post on EngadgetMobile.

Now, your problem:

You want to go ONE day without seeing a post about the iPhone.

Now, here's my crazy, ultra-radical idea:

Don't come to EngadgetMobile for a day.

Tell me if it works, then spread this idea around to those OMG-wtf-are-there-so-many-iPhone-posts?-I-wish-there-was-a-way-I-didn't-have-to-read-them-but-still-find-time-to-COMMENT-on-them people.

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Please don't take this personally, but, seriously, people's incessant complaints about this is annoying. It's a big phone. This is a big phone site. Put the two together and there are endless posts.

Once again, don't take this personally. "We still chill, yo."]]>Oct 16th 2007 8:10PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/Oct 15th 2007 10:52PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/Oct 15th 2007 11:32PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/
Just skip it if you don't want to read it, just like I do to Nokia, Motrola, Samsung cell phone related articles.]]>Oct 16th 2007 12:35AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/Oct 16th 2007 1:40PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/Oct 16th 2007 7:35PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/Oct 18th 2007 7:16PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/Oct 18th 2007 7:16PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/
The iPhone is a great phone, iPod (audio and video), web browser, e-mail device and SMS device (in addition to so much more of course). There's just no comparison to anything else out there on the market. And...a new Treo or the like is going to cost you about the same as the iPhone. Why on earth would you do it?

My only gripe is (no, not the slow EDGE network) the total and complete lack of 3rd party speaker docks and FM transmitters. I know its due to the radio interference, but come on...there's got to be a way. I love my little Griffin iTrip, but it sucks to have to go into Airplane mode to use it.]]>Oct 19th 2007 2:22PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/Oct 28th 2007 1:59PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/Nov 12th 2007 9:36AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/15/iphone-report-most-owners-left-treos-sidekicks-behind/Short of very significant hardware re-engineering to replace the wireless chipset, there is no way to make an iPhone work with the Verizon or Sprint networks.

The iPhone is a SIM-based GPRS phone which works on the AT&T and T-Mobile GSM/GPRS networks; Verizon Wireless and Sprint use the competing Qualcomm patented CDMA technology. Unfortunately the Qualcomm CDMA technology used by Verizon/Sprint is only used in the U.S., Canada, some parts of the Caribbean, and Korea. Everywhere else in the world, the open GSM/GPRS is the mobile phone standard (except Japan which is just different).

Presumably Apple quite reasonably choose to release the iPhone as a GPRS device because that technology is available world-wide - especially in the European market. Why does Europe matter if the iPhone only started being sold there on Friday? The European wireless market is much more dynamic and competitive marketplace than the U.S. balkanized and backward mobile phone arena. By releasing a GPRS iPhone they serve the world market with essentially one device rather than having to have two different technologies for the North American market.

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