Stop whatever you're doing & appreciate that when the iPhone 3G came out, a website loading in only 20 seconds was considered a remarkable achievement.
@BasicAppleGuy 48sec over EDGE is something that the iPhone 3G could do, but was never achieved ever again. EDGE is basically No Service
@w EDGE was actually quite good! I remember travelling to Kyiv with friends and they've had EDGE there, in Moscow we didn't — only regular GPRS, even if some base stations supported EDGE they themselves used slow connection, so full EDGE speeds were never achieved. And I was impressed by it — I could browse Deviant Art from my laptop connected via mobile phone. I had thought that we would never need more bandwidth on mobile TBH.
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@m0xee @BasicAppleGuy Yeah I see your point. We had a small house in the Austrian Alps where only GPRS and EDGE was available, we always tried to get EDGE as even 360p YouTube was possible. Nowadays you cannot even send a WhatsApp text message via EDGE
@w Ha-ha-ha, yeah, that's right, at the time I didn't even think watching videos would be possible, but when the first iPhone came out it wasn't considered unthinkable, it even had an app for YouTube and having only 2G connection was considered the device's shortcoming almost universally.
I still mostly prefer just text and images — pretty old-fashioned in this regard, so now I don't get the 5G hype 😂
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@w Exactly! Even flagship phones of today are limited to 1 Tb storage so where do we put all the data? The only usage scenario I can think of is this VR stuff — so you can receive a lot of data, process it and immediately discard it. Because even with videos 6" screens make higher resolutions kinda pointless, but with VR goggles — who knows.
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@m0xee @BasicAppleGuy tbf I have 5G unlimited on my current phone plan, but (in my daily usage) I cannot tell the difference between 4G and 5G. When you perform a speedtest you see the 600-900MBit/s, which is impressive, but on a phone I don't see any real world usage currently. Maybe someday we say: 4G is unusable, how could we have ever used it, but I doubt it.