Well actually Gary the features they leave out usually make sense including in
this case. Let’s review.
First, the HSPA. /3G wasn’t supported because the initial chipsets were awful.
Also very little was deployed across the network.
Then LTE was with held until the 5, do you remember how bad the other
LTE phones who were early were? The HTC phones barely worked and had a 2 hour
battery life, Sprint was using that really bad WIMAX standard, T-Mobile was all
in on 3G and pushing HSPA+ heavily and there was a shortage of LTE chips.
Now in the case of the watch, there’s no good full featured LTE
chip yet that includes VOLTE. There’s also no mixed 3 and 4G chips that will
fit in a watch. In combination with this, where are you going to put the sim?
By the time you have the tray and sim itself plus the slot you use up to much
space not to mention increase the complexity of water proofing. The E-SIM
saves a lot of space for the actual LTE radio and modem hardware and you still
have the full bluetooth channel back to your phone for placing calls. FaceTime
or Skype would also likely be options over this high speed data channel but
VOLTE isn’t included.O. (Qualcomm doesn’t have that included yet). So you have
to build for the parts you can get access to and this year data only is the
option. Remember the phones all started out LTE data only at first as well,
not just Apple but everyone.
Apple doesn’t put something in a phone or product until it really works, every
time. You might get more bleeding edge options in other brands but you get the
instability to go with it. Samsung is a good example of this with their
restarts and history of cellular problems. Samsung has good ability to field
upgrade with software to correct these problems though but Apple is shooting
for a stable error free but conservative experience.
Aug 16, 2017, at 2:05 PM, gary-melconian <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Tersting that aple is always taking out features from the devices. I really
> wonder wht in the hell tim cook is thinking.
>
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