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BoyGenius: Edge beats Wifi on new curve

In side by side comparison of EDGE and Wifi browsing on the T-Mobile’s new Blackberry 8320, The Boy Genius reports that EDGE is faster than wifi. That’s a big disappointment; interesting to see where the bottleneck lies and whether it can be improved by a software upgrade. The new 8320 also does not offer GPS; I think I’ll definite hold out for the 8820. Despite the disappointing Wifi throughput, I am still interested by the ability of the new Blackberries to support unlimited flat-rate voice calling over Wifi, since I’m often near a wifi connection at home, work, or a Starbucks.

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[…] I wrote earlier on the paradoxical benchmark results showing that Edge connections beats Wifi on the new 8320 Curve. I’m in the market for a new phone and data plan, so this is of more than academic interest to me. […]


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