Mapping the iPhone
Written by Chad on August 25th, 2008Well, because we all know that without the iPhone, civilization will end. Wired has gone out and mapped where all the iPhone users are (really, it is a better map of just the network) in the USA.
As you can see, the east coast and breadbasket of the US have civilization as does the west coast. But the middle of the US.. anarchy is the rule.
On a serious note, iPhone aside, (it is cool, but really.. nothing THAT special) this does show a mostly accurate map of what AT&T’s 3G coverage is. Areas you would think to be strong are coming up as the opposite. (As for me, I max out because at home I have an AT&T tower 900 feet away.. but other than making phone calls.. I don’t use anything else)
I am just an unfrozen caveman lawyer, you’re iPhone scares and confuses me.
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Just to be clear about how Wired did that mapping. It was a survey: 4,200 iPhone 3G owners. “The study, which invited users to measure their local 3G speeds and enter the data on an interactive map, was less than scientific. The participants were self-selected and a third of them provided data so incomplete the information was unusable.” 2,636 data points were usable and mapped.