Guess I'll be getting an iPhone this summer

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Originally Posted by Jim

Didn't Cingular and At&T merge their cellphone services a year or so ago? They did something because the day they did, all of a sudden my Cingular phone had reception where it never did before.

AT&T Wireless sold their network to Cingular. Cingular had the largest TDMA Network -- AT&T Wireless had a TDMA/GSM Hybrid. At that point Cingular used AT&T's TDMA and Cingular's TDMA and allowed calls to roam across either -- building their network very quickly. Of course, Bellsouth which owns Cingular was just purchased by AT&T, so, Cingular again becomes an AT&T property.

Originally Posted by Cleo

From
http://www.apple.com/iphone/technology/specs.html
GSM Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900)
Wireless data Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + Bluetooth 2.0

I stand corrected. The first reports I saw of it claimed EDGE not supported in version one. We'll see if Cingular supports it out of the gate -- they have a long history of not supporting the 'cool stuff' until the cool stuff is already implemented by everyone else.