AudioBoo: Palm Pre and O2 “The Smartphone Network?”

by Ben Smith on 10th July 2009

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With the first European launch announcement for the Palm Pre on Telefónica’s UK network O2 are they becoming the ‘network for smartphones’?  Much of the progress impresses, but I think there’s a few crucial things left to do before O2 (at least) can truly claim that crown.

Palm Pre

The Pre - Coming to O2 'before Christmas'

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Tagged as: launch, o2, palm pre, smartphone, Telefónica

  • weirdshanghai
    ok lucky you but on all the mobiles ive tested in edinburgh its always been rate limited
    to 384K. i guess its a regional thing for lack of capacity provisioning. cool nice to see o2 doing better. still they are a bit pants at signal.
  • weirdshanghai
    The thing that lets all of us down is their absolute shit coverage for 3g. And the fact that they CAP their 3g at 384K incoming. Utter Shit. I get loads of speed on orange/tmobile/vodagroan 3g. o2 perhaps is the smartphone network, but the smart phones if they sell well will wind up crippling them as in the case of AT&T USA. Nice mobiles, shit network, perfect... unlock unlock unlock.. im off to Hong Kong to purchase an unlocked iphone 3gs, then I can choose.
  • worldofnokia
    O2 dont cap at 384k?. I ran a speed test on a E75 today and hit 1mb
  • They did / threatened to (depending on who you believe) some time back. I think they canned that idea :-)
  • worldofnokia
    yeah when O2 started 3G on phones they cut the speed for non business customers. That was dropped quite a while back now :)
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