AT&T will buy WayPort. More good news for iPhone users!

At 30 Nov 2008 12:11:32 -0800 4phun wrote:

> > I think there is a ten megabyte size limit for an app over 3G but I
> > have yet to find one that large that I downloaded directly to the
> > iPhone. I have about 60 apps on my iPhone now. About 25% were
> > downloaded over 3G.
>
>
> I was going to get around to this. You are right about the AT&T
> Network. They appear to impose a 10MB cap per file transfered.

Apple is the actual gatekeeper here. The 10MB limit might be a
capitulation to AT&T (and other "partner" carriers,) but the limitation is
Apple's, not AT&T's. My wife has an unlocked iPhone on T-Mobile USA, and
the PHONE refuses to download files larger than 10 MB- despite T-Mo's
network having no such limitation (other than the user might grow old and
die first waiting for more than 10MB to download at 2G!)

> If you
> want to stream more data then that break it up into chunks just like
> any other file transfer program does.


How does she do that with the app store, Vic?


> Google now allows you to have 20MB emails. Did you notice that you
> have to download many attachments one at a time instead of the whole
> ball of wax at once with the big emails?
>
> Many aps from the apt store tend to be less than 10MB, although I have
> some really big ones that AT&T would prevent transfer over the 3G side
> of heir networks. You could still grab a big app over their wifi
> network if you were near an AT&T hot spot.

Again, the limitation seems to be hard-coded INTO THE PHONE by Apple, not a
network message generated by AT&T, else non-AT&T users like my wife
wouldn't see it, and other AT&T phone users would also be hampered by the
limit, but apparently aren't.

On 1-Dec-2008, Charles <fort514 RemoveThis @mac.com> wrote:

> > I don't know anyone who uses it. That doesn't prove that nobody does,
> > any more than your anecdote shows that lots of people do.
>
> I see you are in the UK. Maybe it is a US thing? A couple of them I
> know who used it have gotten iPhones and commented to me about no MMS.
> It is the only feature that anyone I know with an iPhone has commented
> to me about. None has mentioned copy and paste.

I would like to have MMS. I would also like to have a Sling player for the
iPhone and the ability to use the iPhone as a wireless modem.