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Old 10-24-2008, 02:26 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by richard371 View Post
It will stay on EDGE in non 3g areas and have good battery life. The problem is people may want to use EDGE in 3g areas to save battery and avoid the 3g flakiness on ATT. Maybe this was a mistake. I don't know why ATT would take away that option when it is available on the iphone 3g. We will see what happens when they hit big time on nov 4th.
Thank you for the good explanation. I question the difference in battery life from one technology to the other. Is there a significant difference? Either way, I can understand AT&T wanting phones capable of 3G to have an affinity for 3G as the system has more capacity.
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