I don't see any silenced ipod naysayers...

GPS?
IIRC that's a OLD feature that Sprint and Nextel have had for years. Unless it's some weird new GPS thing I haven't heard of yet.

Are you confusing GPS and GPRS?

Sound like you need to brush up on your mobile techs:

GPS = Global Positionining System.
GPRS = General Packet Radio Service.

I know what a GPS is, I have used several of them. Now I don't understand the big deal about the GPS feature in phones, I thought most phones were GPS ready. I did a little looking to find most nextel phones are GPS ready.

http://www.nextel.com/en/services/gps/gps.shtml

Many smart-phones support GPS with the aid of something like a bluetooth GPS receiver. Although there currently aren't many on the market that have GPS built in.

Anyway SJ, practically admitted that the iPhone will be launches on the 30th of June. So it looks like there is still a bit longer to wait:
"Jobs says Apple is on track to ship iPhone in late June as planned. Walt: Like the last day of June? Jobs: (Laughs) Yeah, probably." - All Things Digital http://www.macrumors.com/2007/05/30/...hings-digital/

Those phones are not available here. Remember, the US is severely limited when it comes to cell phones and we are a couple of generations behind what is widely available in Europe.

HDSPA networks over here are still very limited so I wouldn’t really get a benefit from that right now (or probably within the next year even) and holy crap, you guys bitch at the iPhone price but that N95 is $750 USD! I’m not even sure how well that would work with the networks over here and that’s IF they let it on their network.

Well I gave that time frame from rumors I’ve seen in the last month or two. Apple and at&t still haven’t given any more detail past “June” or “Late June.”

I don’t believe the Prada is coming to the US and listening to some tech analyst’s talk they weren’t really impressed with the Prada. They said it’s a good phone, but for what the iPhone is really trying to do (make life easy from its OS) the LG just wasn’t going to be able to do as well as Apple. Either way, again I don’t think that was even an option for me.

Sprint phones have been aGPS enabled for like five years or so, but that’s not a real stand alone GPS chip. It’s assisted by the cell towers and really is only good for E911 service. I’m talking about a real GPS which can be used for point to point routes and current location information. Nextel has had that for awhile but Sprint JUST within like the last year has started having a few phones with those kinds of features. Some smart phones now have them or at least can talk to a BlueTooth GPS device and use mapping software.

The iPhone will have some type of Google Maps on it but I haven’t heard anything official about GPS pairing via BlueTooth or if the version of GMaps on the phone even supports GPS stuff.

Sounds like you do...

Neither network is considered GPRS.

Sprint is PCS.

Nextel is iDEN.

GPS, is GPS, and it is a feature. Cingular is one of the national services with GPRS.

Meh. Get back to me when it has HSDPA what an absolute joke that it doesn't. Please apple, join us in 2007. I hope the iPhone fails in Europe and Asia.

HSDPA is VERY limited here in the US and probably will not be network wide on at&t for at least another year, maybe two. I expect Apple will have released a HSDPA phone by then.


As for Apple releasing world wide right now without it, that is kind of odd, but maybe you guys will have HSDPA if your market has a lot of support already for it, we shall see in Q4.