Apple & Sprint Working On Slow Data Speeds
A leaked internal email suggests that Apple & Sprint are, internally, calling the slow speeds as a “confirmed nationwide issue”. The leaked document suggests that Apple will be pushing an over the air carrier bundle update to fix the issues.
LEI Mobile can now confirm that the Sprint iPhone 4S is indeed seeing a nationwide slow down. I have an iPhone 4S on Sprint as well and I have noticed extremely slow speeds, only going at about 0.50mbps down and an atrocious 0.10mbps up, at the most since I bought my iPhone 4S on launch day.
The screenshot, above, is a speed test I did on my own iPhone 4S (at the time of this writing) to show you that this is not a hoax or just people complaining about nothing, this issue is indeed real.
Now, as we know, AT&T has the fastest 3G network and us Sprint customers shouldn’t expect insanely fast speeds like 7mpbs or anything, even Verizon is a lot slower, about half as fast as AT&T. However, 0.28mbps up/0.02mbps down is unacceptable. I’ve tested other Sprint devices and they have gone up to 2mbps, so after the update, I want to at least see 1.2mbps all the time.
I do believe it could be an issue with the PRL/APN that the iPhone 4S is currently using for Sprint, but Apple and Sprint should hurry up because every day that goes by, people WILL notice and people will make a fuss like they did with AT&T when they used to have the horrible coverage back in 2007/2008.
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[Breaking News] AT&T may be cracking on tethering
What starts as a simple free message from AT&T may spell bad news on your tethered Internet connection.
“AT&T Free Msg: Did you know tethering your Smartphone to a computer requires a tethering plan? Pls call
888-860-6789
for details or visit att.com/dataplans.”
From what’s been said it is unclear just how AT&T is determining who is unofficially tethering, looks hit or miss to me. Most users messaged are on 4.1-4.2.1 and are using MyWi.
Did you get messaged? We want to know, tell us your story!
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Tethered iPhone Sends GPS Data to iPad
Kyle Carmitchel of TabletMonsters, has just found a very cool feature on accident. While driving, kyle had his WiFi only iPad tethered to his iPhone 4 using the new Personal HotSpot feature that is now built into iOS 4.3, and noticed that it was passing along GPS data to the iPad. The Wi-Fi only iPad does not have a true GPS chip inside like the 3G version, so this is very handy if you would like to use your GPS functions on a larger screen.
Currently this has been tested and confirmed working on both the original iPad and the new iPad 2. The only downfall is that it does not refresh the data instantly. It only send outs updates every minute or so. I imagine this is to save battery life, but none the less I hope that Apple or someone else makes the data refresh instantly.
This is very interesting news as I was waiting in line for an iPad 2 this morning I was talking to one of our readers about this same feature. He was actually wondering if you could do that. Well now there really is an “App for that!”
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Backup Your Application Data With AppBackup
AppBackup, developed by Scott Zeid, is a Cydia application that lets you backup and restore your application data on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. This includes saved settings, levels, achievements, etc. This is very handy if you are doing an upgrade to a new iOS firmware and want to setup your iDevice as a new device instead of restoring from a backup.
AppBackup DOES NOT back up the apps themselves, just the information they save like settings, game progress, etc.
How To Use AppBackup:
1. Download it from Cydia and run the application.
2. Backup individual apps or back them all up.
3. Once you have backed up all the applications that you want. Use iFile or SSH into your iDevice and SAVE the folder AppBackup located at: /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/AppBackup/ to you computer.
4. Now you can restore or upgrade your iPhone and set it up as a new device. (setting up your device as a new device will fix battery issues you may be experiencing.)
5. Download AppBackup from Cydia Again.
6. Once you have your new device upgraded, put the AppBackup folder that you saved to your computer in the same location: /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/AppBackup/6. Launch AppBackup and click restore all.
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Apple & Verizon Announce Service Plan Pricing For iPhone
Hey guys, back on January 11th, Apple and Verizon said that they would be waiting to announce plan pricing on the iPhone, and today, however brief a time it may have been, we saw the pricing of their plans.
Individual voice plans begin at $39.99 per month for 450 minutes, with 900 minutes available for $59.99 and Nationwide Unlimited checking in at $69.99. Family SharePlans begin at $69.99 for 700 minutes, with 1400 minutes ($89.99), 2000 minutes ($99.99) and unlimited ($119.99) also available.
Messaging options check in at $5 (250 messages), $10 (500 messages), and $20 (unlimited messages). Customers can also decline to add a messaging and plan and simply be billed at a per-message rate of 20 cents text and 25 cents per picture/video message. Family SharePlan messaging options include the same pay per use, $5, and $10 plans as on the individual track, but the $20 messaging plan includes 5000 messages for family talk customers with an additional $30 plan offering unlimited shared messages across devices on the plan.
As for data, as we reported earlier, you will only be able to get an unlimited data plan for $30 a month, but the hotspot feature will cost you an extra $20 for 2GB of data for tethering, or $20 after every additional gigabyte that you use for tethering.
To clarify, if you get tethering, you don’t get knocked down to 2GB data entirely, you still get your unlimited data, but tethering-only data is only 2GB.
So there you go guys!
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