Mobile
New iPhone Ads Promote Voice + Data
Apple’s latest ads demonstrate just how much you can get online while you’re still on a call. These ads are a little better than AT&T’s ads promoting the feature, but they sure don’t reflect my experience trying to get work done with my iPhone 3Gs. I count myself lucky if my call isn’t dropped or if I get a 3G signal.
The ad signs off with a question that’s an attack on the ‘Droid Does’ campaign: “Can your phone and your network do that?”
Apparently my phone and network kinda sorta do that.
Apple iPhone Ad – Did You See My Email? from Arik Hesseldahl on Vimeo.
Apple iPhone Ad – What Time’s The Movie? from Arik Hesseldahl on Vimeo.
GoodThings2Life
11/24/2009 at 11:52 am
Well, it’s true that they can do the whole voice/data connection at the same time, and others currently can’t. But to answer the question… YES, my phone can do that (WinMo or Android), but NO, my network [currently] can’t do the whole data thing simultaneously.
I never really understood why that is until I started hearing about all the dropped calls and network instability issues that AT&T has… then I realized, oh, yeah… that’s why!
Sumocat
11/24/2009 at 2:44 pm
The lack of simultaneous data and voice is a limit of CDMA. However, the CDMA Development Group has announced a spec to overcome that limit.
https://cdg.org/news/press/2009/Aug17_09.asp
Seems a bit late to me. 4G might very well render such problems obsolete before new spec can be widely implemented.
mrpacs
11/24/2009 at 7:19 pm
Thankfully, here in CT, AT&T is rock solid.