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Re:Intel and Arm Announce Multigeneration Collaboration on L... by nordsieck on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:15PM (#35545176)
> The big telcos were handing out data in miserly amounts and eye bleeding prices (think 50 bucks for 1MB then another 30-50 for SMS). AT&T was willing to pair with an unlimited plan set the iPhone wildly ahead of all the other phones in that category.

From what I recall, the original iPhone only supported 2G, while contemporary phones supported 3G. I remember a lot of criticism around the iPhone web experience because of that, even though the interface was clearly superior to everyone who used it.

It looks like there were relatively competitive data plans available[1] that offered unlimited data. I'm not really convinced that that was the problem.

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1. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/04/data-plans-the-barri...

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Re:Intel and Arm Announce Multigeneration Collaboration on L... by colejohnson66 on Thursday April 13, 2023 @08:19AM (#35554280)
> From what I recall, the original iPhone only supported 2G, while contemporary phones supported 3G.

Yep. Only EDGE and quad-band GSM ("2G"). The second generation iPhone was called the "iPhone 3G" specifically because it supported tri-band UMTS ("3G") with HSDPA. In fact, some even back-named the first generation iPhone to "iPhone 2G".

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