3G wireless defined today’s smartphone lifestyle, and now carriers are shutting it down. JoannaStern explains how that might affect you, and why we owe 3G a debt of gratitude
How will this impact you? It likely won’t. Only 1% of AT&T consumers have devices that depend on 3G, according to a company spokesman. Think about it this way: Apple hasn’t released a 3G-driven phone sinceIf you’re part of that small group, however, your old phone will be cut off. No more phone calls. No more texts. Nada.Joanna Stern/The Wall Street Journal, to relive the 3G glory years, I got an iPhone 4 working on Cricket Wireless, powered by AT&T’s network.
Even if you aren’t directly impacted by the 3G shutdown, allow me to remind you that 3G already impacted your life. Big time. And the web itself changed too. As more people started using their mobile browsers, developers began to optimize for the smaller screens, making mobile sites that were easier to get information and navigate with a finger—not a mouse or a stylus. When’s the last time you waited on a website to load on your smartphone? Thank 3G!Our 3G phones weren’t just faster, they were better at determining our location, by using a combination of Wi-Fi, GPS and cellular.
“Everyone was screaming at us that we need 3G for the stuff that was on the iPhone. Then we also had developers saying we need an app store. Then they just magically came together at the same time,” Mr. Fadell told me.
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