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Comment Re:Observations (Score 1) 150

by edderly on Tuesday June 24, 2008 @10:40AM (#23916755) Attached to: Nokia to Acquire and Open Source Symbian

I'd assume that the Symbian bit which becomes part of Nokia will continue to do this. Whether the licensee does this or not has always been a little vague i.e. Symbian would recommend this as 'the way to do things' whether that advice is taken is a different matter.

EDGE Can Out-Perform 3G; Here's Why 255

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 16, 2007 @05:44AM from the bandwidth-is-the-new-mhz dept.

goombah99 writes "Blackfriars's communications has an interesting discourse on why the practical difference between 3G and EDGE cellphone data networks is less than it appears to be based on a naive bandwidth metric. Their argument is that the user experience of TCP/HTML is much more impacted by latency, error rates, and processor speed than by bandwidth — and Edge had the edge on all three. Additionally, EDGE may consume considerably less power."

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