In case you missed the news, AT&T is readying a 6X speed increase in its 3G network that will finally put the service on par with EVDO Revision A. Sounds good, right? Well, unfortunately the service is obviously not compatible with the current iPhone and chances are, it probably won’t be put to the experiment for quite some duration.

Regardless, that story tells us one thing: the second version of the iPhone will definitely support 3G and info transfers on the device will be on par with the hefty speeds currently watched on Verizon and Sprint’s services. So what does that mean for iPhone 2.0 owners? Well, you can expect one of the most common complaints about the venerable device to be swept away — newsletter and Net is too slow! But what it plus might promote is the loss of the “made for iPhone” World Wide Web apps that were




engineered to run on the EDGE network. In other words, we’ll finally be able to access everything we actually want at fast speeds without hoping that it’s EDGE-optimized.

It looks like AT&T is preparing that update to not only compete with Verizon, but ready itself for the new iPhone. Does timing have anything to do with that? Could it be that considering the network should be ready to go by October or November, that rumored iPhone 2.0 really will hit store shelves for the holidays? I definitely think that’s a possibility and to be honest, it’s becoming more likely by the minute.

Don Reisinger is a freelance technology journalist who covers everything from HDTVs to the iPhone. He writes The Digital Home for CNET, product reviews for InformationWeek and PC World, and contributes to by 15 publications all through the world.

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