Starting in February, U.S. cellular carriers will begin to shut down 3G. WSJ’s Joanna Stern got an old iPhone 3G and iPhone 4 working on the old network, in order to remember all it did to shape the smartphone revolution. Photo illustration: Preston Jessee for The Wall Street Journal
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Here we are still stuck with 2g calling and texting ugh
I liked this video to see old tech still working
some correction:iOS 5.1 was from early 2012,not 2010
otherwise,I'm quite surprised that you guys kept iPhones on older iOS versions,perhaps can you fix the old WSJ app?lol
On my XS I use 3G alot because I get full bars on 3g compared to 1 bar on LTE
We all know what 5G is really about. You may laugh and censor us but we will keep talking about it!
why the iphone why not samsung they had 3g support to
This is an absolutely appropriate YouTube clip for an Apple fangirl's individual YouTube Channel reminiscing the old iPhones. Does this have to be through the WSJ? What information does this deliver?
Worthy journey…better you than me. Always love your videos!
The 3G is already dead where I go I was surprised when my old iPhone didn’t work
Joke's on you, Everything from 2G – 5G Still works in some parts in India
4G LTE is next.
6G is about to enter China soon while US is just about to embrace 5G?
I repurpose 10-year-old computers for a home server and guest room PC, and while they may be slower than the computer at my desk, they can still run the same modern software and apps that my main PC does because x86 platform standards don't change as drastically as phones, and both Windows and Linux have good backwards software compatibility. I wish this would become a trend with phones. If it were more practical to repurpose phones or just to keep using them for longer, it would eliminate a lot of landfill waste, manufacturing pollution, and save consumers money.
This video is more about the iPhone vs 3G technology
You holding it wrong 😇
From my own point of view, you need to invest smartly, if you need the good things of life. so far i've made over $505k in raw profits from just q4 of the market from my diversified portfolio strategy and i believe anyone can do it you have the right strategy. mutual funds takes long time but investing smartly is the key for short term. Most of us tend to pay more attention to the shiniest position in the market to the cost of proper diversification.
"The bigger donkeys you get the bigger loads will the washerman bring "…I remember using my Thuraya satellite phone(years before even iPhone released) to email from the middle of the ocean with a speed of 9.6 kbps….😂😂
Leave it to Joanna to make such a boring topic fun and interesting.
I am retiring my smart phone – i phone 8 and not getting a new one. They are futile if the battery dies and serve no real purpose other than to turn the populace into a bunch of idiots. Will use flip phone just for calls turned off most of the time. Doing more interesting things that don't involve phones and all the slave labor and massive environmental destruction used to make the junk. There will be a colossal anti-tech movement that will crash the Nasdaq back to 3k.
I still love my iPhone 4. This was my first smartphone I ever owned. Now I have a S21 ultra now. The screen on this phone is bigger then the entire iPhone 4 lol