Comments on: iPhone 3GS Doesn’t Support HSUPA for High Speed 3G Upload

By: Martin Nielsen

Martin Nielsen — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:05:04 +0000

On my old phone i had fast upload. I really miss HSUPA when thethering.

Maybe the next iPhone will be named iPhone 3G US

By: Philly Z!

Philly Z! — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:27:09 +0000

@Matt

True it's a Phone but other competitors have higher res. It's time 4 an iPhone HD with atleast 720P resoultion like a Zune HD

@Frog, your Australian network with 21Mb downstream and almost 6Mb upstream is amazing I wish AT&T had that!!!!

I'm in Chi-Town and always in a 3G zone so I can't camplain much but, I do want a iPhone HD with an OLED screen and a physical Keyboard that would be a sweet limited edition I'd pay mad money FOR!!!

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:15:59 +0000

@Michael… “crappy display resolution”… as compared to what; 1080p?. You do realise it’s a phone and not a TV, I presume?.

By: frog

frog — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:40:29 +0000

Our network in Australia supports 21mbps downloads, 5.8mbps uploads.

The iPhone does not support those speeds, it's not a network issue.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:37:54 +0000

@icebike: No, the blame is placed correctly as it's indeed the chipset that's at fault here. I could theoretically get up to 5 mpbs upstream with my mobile provider here in Japan and it's also my phone (not an iPhone for that matter) that caps the possible datarate to 384 kbps.

@bill: I think this is really a hardware limitation and a software update won't do anything to fix it. There are certain modems that in the past were able to go from 1.8 to 3.6 Mbps downstream, but none that ever made the jump from 384 kbps to a higher upstream.

Apple's chipset is simply not HSUPA capable and only god (or better, AT&T) know why. This and the crappy display resolution are the reasons why I'm not getting a 3GS. And while the display resolution is admittedly a tough nut to crack (app compatibility issues galore) implementing HSUPA was neither technically nor financially unfeasible.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:48:12 +0000

Maybe they did it to save battery life?

By: Don

Don — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:19:30 +0000

Most people have ADSL or DOCsys connections at home which are also asymetrical. A typical ADSL on Telus is 2Mb down and 400ish up.

Extreme high speed may go 5 times faster down but only 2x faster up.

Around here (Vancouver) I have been getting about 1.5M down and 120k up. It was higher before HTC Dream and 3GS sucked the life out of the network.

I am not complaining. It is better than Telus and Shaw's base high speed offerings.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:57:09 +0000

Until video chat over the phone is a reality, who cares about upload speed.

By: D

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:06:46 +0000

Because a picture you copied is not the same as a linked location on a hard drive the link tells the site where to look on your hard drive to upload it a copied pic is just a new jpeg image you wouldn’t be able to copy a jpeg into a link box on a desktop either

By: icebike

icebike — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:29:35 +0000

Quote Article:

Apple didn’t see fit to equip it with the matching HSUPA upload speed

Are we sure this has anything to do with Apple?

Typically, upload and download speed have more to do with your internet upstream connection. This stuff is never limited by the terminal equipment.

Seems like blaming 3Com Nics for a slow upload in your desktop machine.