Dennis Ferguson <dcferguson@pacbell.net> wrote in
news:slrnfsgss7.7q.dcferguson@akit-ferguson.com:

> On 2008-02-29, Larry <noone@home.com> wrote:
>> iPhone only uses EDGE, not 3G, for internet, so that would limit its
>> use and attractiveness in most other places, like Europe for
>> instance, where users are used to the much higher speeds of 3G
>> broadband, instead of just- a-little-faster-than-dialup of EDGE.
>> It'll work on the GSM as a sellphone, but not on 3G as a high speed
>> internet device...........yet.
>>
>> That's why it doesn't sell well in European markets, cracked or
>> uncracked....besides being hobbled, of course, into a WebTV device.
>
> That also might have something to do with why it seems to sell
> so fantastically well in China, where Edge is currently as good
> as it gets. If China Mobile's numbers can be trusted there are more
> hacked iPhones in use in China than there are unhacked iPhones signed
> up for service in the European countries where it is available.
>
> Dennis Ferguson
>

I'd believe that. Chinese hackers are some of the finest in the world. If
you had to watch Communist TV, you'd be coding, too!....(c;