– [Joanna] The moment has
come for 3G to hand down. – 3G network, which means
you can surf the web. – [Storyteller] Some individuals
will certainly such as discovering their way two times as fast. – Can you hear me now? Good. – [Joanna] Yet in the past,
I needed to state goodbye by testing 3G one last time. I'' m calling you on my iPhone 3G on 3G. (caller laughs) – Why did I do this? Because, well, I love old tech, yet likewise due to the fact that this year, the 3 large united state cellular
service providers are sunsetting their as soon as groundbreaking 3G networks. AT&T will be the very first
hitting the 3G eliminate switch on February 22nd. The remainder will certainly be dead by December. They'' re all doing this to maximize spectrum for their 5G networks. Already you can'' t turn on a 3G phone on those networks. Something I discovered the tough way, attempting to obtain these 2 phones to work in the last number of weeks. This iPhone 3G, I got it taking care of phone calls and messages on H2O wireless. As well as then this iPhone 4, I lastly got dealing with Cricket Wireless for information, however 3G service would get cut off every couple of hrs or two.
– [Electronic Voice] Thank you for calling cricket wireless. – [Driver] As well as you'' re. stating you want you to reactivate your line? – Yes. Both cricket as well as H2O wireless.
use the AT&T network. However the end of 3G is not simply completion of some network modern technology. This is a minute to remember.
that 3G actually offered birth to the contemporary smartphone. So I tried to return in time, testing myself to.
make use of these old apples iphone on this old network. Objective one, make use of the.
internet to locate a battery charger. So yeah, this iPhone.
4 is constantly dying. Phone passed away once again. Phone closed down once again. Phone'' s dead once again. Phone shut down once again. It works rather well when it'' s connected in. So I went on a look for a new, battery charger finest buy. I missed out on that loading of heaven bar. I won'' t make you wait. It took the iPhone 4 on 3G, 39 seconds to fill the website.
It took the apple iphone 12 Pro on. 4G, much less'than 5 seconds. Sure, that ' s hugely slow-moving. And right now these images put on ' t tons well because the internet browser is so.
obsolete and also mobile variations of internet sites today require even more bandwidth.But you have to keep in mind that before 3G, we had 2G or Side, which was fine for quickly getting texts and also email, but dreadful for loading. websites or any kind of other images.
– We ' re off to the races right here. 3G 2.8 times quicker. -[ Joanna] Goal to get an Uber. So this is type of remarkable. This apple iphone 4 running iphone.
5.1 from back in 2010, had the Uber app set up. I tried visiting with.
my username and also password, but initially I obtained a great deal of this. And then it claims my Uber.
account has actually been impaired. Certainly, that has nothing to do with 3G. This version of the Uber app.
is old and also it'' s not supported anymore by the company. Simply gon na wait. So I had to use my 5G.
apple iphone 12 to obtain an Uber. It'' s a disappointment due to the fact that. 3G was really essential to getting new apps like Uber started. So I contacted somebody.
that had an insider view when the application change.
was just obtaining started.Hi Ralph.
– [Ralph] Yes. – Hey, it'' s Joanna from.
the Wall Road Journal. Just how are you? – [Ralph] Hey, great Joanna, how are you? – That'' s Ralph de la Vega. He was the CEO of AT&T wheelchair when the initial iPhones were introduced as well as were exclusive to AT&T. – [Ralph] We met the.
Uber group as well as they asked us to help them finance the iPhones.
that were going to be provided to the drivers. They clarified to us what.
they were planning to do with smart devices, with.
mobile broadband technology, and with this impressive,.
user friendly interface that use the general practitioner ability on the iPhone.And it was an
aha! moment. – Mission 3, post an image. So indeed, I lastly made it to Finest Purchase. Success. Naturally, I had to extol it by posting on social media sites, which was additionally sustained by.
the mobile change. Other than yet again, the Instagram application was too old.
and the web site didn'' t load. I got luckier with Facebook. The upload fell short a few times, why upload stopped working, yet after that I was finally.
able to obtain it to work via the mobile Facebook site.But remember this image was. small, just 160 kilobytes. A selfie taken with the. apple iphone 12 is a lot bigger.
Look, everybody, 3G, 3G, woo hoo! 3G, prior to it passes away. And this video wasn'' t. even HD not to mention 4k. As mobile phone cams got.
much better, we likewise got 4G, which was also much faster for all.
the points photo and video clip. It additionally brought even.
better video streaming. And also it'' s why around that time, we started to see bigger.
displays on our phones. Which brings us complete.
circle, with 3G going away, making more room for 5G. 3G opened these new applications.
and provided us an inkling of what we could do on our brand-new go anywhere, pocket computers.They likewise made us
understand. that we needed rate
and 4G made it all quicker. to do every little thing else we do on our modern-day large screen phones. 5G is well, 5G is intended. to do something much better than all that. -[ Ralph] This modern technology. with faster download rates, much less latency and also precision. to pinpoint place even better than the previous technologies, tells me that we ' re going to see an additional cycle of incredible development.- So thanks 3G, rest in peace. I will kinda miss you. Probably not. Can I obtain your 5G phone? -[ Kenny] Sure Thanks, Kenny. Thanks, 5G.
