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namtastic is offline namtastic
2007-09-10 , 22:34
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#239
Originally Posted by nosam View Post
What happens when the people who buy the Touch realize you can't get free wifi anywhere (except a few places). I live in San Francisco and work downtown and there are only a very few places I could actually browse the internet and watch youtube with a Touch or a NIT.
Somehow I can't see all the casual buyers of the Touch setting up their own wifi home network. I think word will get out that you can't use the internet anywhere (not literally) with the touch, at least without paying a monthly fee at starbucks or somewhere.
The Iphone avoids all this with wireless phone service I think.
So, since NITs can pair with cell phones, this makes them much more useable than the Touch that cant do this.
Other's opinions?
Agreed... I think people are going to be sorely disappointed if they think this is the iPhone's internet experience sans telephone. Applications aside, that cellular data is used *much* much more often that most people realize, I think, except for certain users like college students when they may be surrounded by university access. But I have to pair with my phone 90% of the time when out and about in the city. Free (honest or not) Wi-Fi access points are difficult to come by in NYC, too.

And with the improvements in cell data and the continuing failure to create municipal access in cities, it's not going to get any better than this for traditional wi-fi.