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- anteyekon4myst, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Future "current fad" could do "x". Post it when it happens, tired of these hype generation articles.
- trghpy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9"Future iPhones could share data over non-GSM channels"
Hey, look 802.11. They can do that already!
Article is pointless, anyone with some basic business skills knows Apple will expand past GSM. - meson2k, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Its called FAX/MODEM. Patent rejected.
- dmurray14, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Hm, wow. You know what this kind of sounds like? A MODEM.
- joel2600, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5anyone remember analog?
- kolywater, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4hoping they can also convert my phone calls into text so that i can apply the "inbox zero" principles to all forms of human contact.
- streak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Oh, and ars seems confused over what GSM is used for. GSM is the voice channel, while data is sent over GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA.
- geekchic, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5The article says it bypasses GSM to use voice channels. But the cellular and P2P voice channels themselves run over GSM/CDMA - so what exactly are they talking about?
It sounds like it might be a short range point 2 point radio link - which is OK I guess, but hardly radical. After all, you can do that already with Bluetooth. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+9Hmm, how innovative!
You know what this is called?
ITS A MODEM !!!! (Digital/computer interface to analog telephone line)
More from the Mactard nation apparently!
Bury it! - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Wrong thread.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Another mediocre iPhone story = yawn.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You've just revealed how Apples entire business model works!
- anteyekon4myst, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Promote? More like forewarn. I press "bury as lame"; as I wish I could do with you right now. But thank you for being so presumptuous!
- swtboyazn, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2dude. a part of the concept is to send data over a voice channel. omg, thats exactly what a modem does. duhhhhr. bury.
- ShutYourPieHole, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Which does exist in different implementations today. For example, today, you can send a text message (at least on Sprint) to a landline phone, which will receive the text message via a verbal/computerized call. It still requires a backend system to complete, which is what Apple is talking about replacing, but the concept itself is not new. I'd question what it would take, on the device, to be able to convert the text to speech and its usefulness.
- EBFoxbat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No, the text would be converted to voice by the handset, sent over GSM or Push-to-Talk and received by another handset which would play the voice or convert it back to text.
It's Data over a voice channel not voice over a data channel. - zeromagik, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0no this is about google wanting to buy some of the 700mhz spectrum,the analog tv signals go from a transmitter to your tv without the need for phone lines, or cell minutes,why shouldnt telephone calls. this would make a free communication service that should be available anywhere in the world
- dexim, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1It's called a power button, I think pretty much all mobile phones have them.
... or you could just put it on silent. - ashdigg, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2squirting coming to iPhone ?
- tucsonwc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1better still is to bury you.
- zanderscoffee, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Wall Street disagrees.
- quickfix98, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0That could come in handy :)
http://iphone.corank.com - EBFoxbat, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Seems to me that you are a good candidate to not click on articles that start with "Future" and contain the word "could".
But you didn't. You clicked the link. Read the article (or assumed some gist of it from posts) and took the time to reply. So let me ask you this: If you're tired of them, then why promote and boost them? - fernB, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1I hope the other cell phone providers wise up and make sim chips that work for the iPhone that would really make AT&T happy...
- EBFoxbat, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Seems to me that you are a good candidate to not click on articles that start with "Future" and contain the word "could".
But you didn't. You clicked the link. Read the article (or assumed some gist of it from posts) and took the time to reply. So let me ask you this: If you're tired of them, then why promote and boost them? - raycote, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0Maybe its about Voice--->Text with no keybd. needed for messaging?
- naio, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3Crapple is a ***** company.
- eth3l, on 10/10/2007, -5/+3Like a Zune?
- winmywii, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1I was thinking about getting that 503 error tattoo also.
- streak, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1The iPhone has an unlimited data plan, which could carry voice (normally sent over GSM) in data form over EDGE. Thereby saving the users minutes.
- rogerbly, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0yeah team iphone!
- EBFoxbat, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1Urg... -10 points for failure to grasp the concept at any level.
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