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I'm guessin an 8mp picture is around 2-2.5 megs, at 256kbps, that would take 78 seconds. At 1200kbps it's 16 seconds. Now upload a days worth of photos to Facebook and see what speeds you prefer.

Btw, my home dsl has a 400k upload, and when I upload things from my phone I turn wifi off cause it sucks.

Agreed..but who uploads a whole days worth of facebook photos in one day?

Thats a case of going with the WORST POSSIBLE scenario to make a point is it not?

That was supposed to be 256kps and you KNEW what i meant

Its irrelevant anyway because we are looking at something more akin to 1mbs per second on these and you are complaining that its not 5.76...and at 1mbs it would go through in less than 5 seconds.

My argument stands..point stands. Typo does is irrelevant.
 
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Agreed..but who uploads a whole days worth of facebook photos in one day?

Thats a case of going with the WORST POSSIBLE scenario to make a point is it not?

Not really, I've uploaded a few dozen pictures to Facebook multiple times. And on vacation you don't have a wifi network all the time.

And it's not a worst case scenario. It's a smartphone that is meant to be used to it's fullest potential. 256k uploads is not to the networks fullest potential.
 
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Agreed..but who uploads a whole days worth of facebook photos in one day?

Thats a case of going with the WORST POSSIBLE scenario to make a point is it not?

That was supposed to be 256kps and you KNEW what i meant

Its irrelevant anyway because we are looking at something more akin to 1mbs per second on these and you are complaining that its not 5.76...and at 1mbs it would go through in less than 5 seconds.

My argument stands..point stands. Typo does is irrelevant.

Nope, your still wrong, your confusing bytes and bits. Throughput is always measured in bits. A 1mbps upload speed is actually 125,000 bytes per second, so 4 seconds for every megabyte of data. To upload a 4.5 Meg file as you mentioned in 5 seconds would require an 8mbps upload speed.
 
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Not really, I've uploaded a few dozen pictures to Facebook multiple times. And on vacation you don't have a wifi network all the time.

And it's not a worst case scenario. It's a smartphone that is meant to be used to it's fullest potential. 256k uploads is not to the networks fullest potential.

Sigh....

I think i see the problem.

You expect everything to work at its peak theoretical bandwith all the time while i take into account things like network traffic, signal strength, etc and realize that the peak theoretical is RARELY actually achieved with any device ever. There will be spikes that get "into the neighborhood" with dips that are just down right horrible.. Thats the nature of wireless cell phones. Its also the nature of a BRAND new network thats barely even completed/functioning. Frankly id be SUPRISED if it were any other way?

Regarding the picture upload time jumping from 5 seconds to 20 something seconds (based on upload being measured in bits not bytes) above, i still don't think people usually send the picture files at that setting or send that many at once..

Edit: On that note i think the "upload speeds do not matter as much as you are claiming" back and forth argument has fully been explored. Not much else to say.
 
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Exactly, sigh. New network, blah blah.

I'll take my 1200kbps upload and you can have your 256kbps.

I do not think it will stay at 256kps but lets have this argument again next year when AT&T rolls out its LTE network as well (it's been fun). LOL

I agree there may be a few users "impatiently" waiting on something to upload at those speeds but i think its been exaggerated here somewhat.
 
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I do not think it will stay at 256kps but lets have this argument again next year when AT&T rolls out its LTE network as well (it's been fun). LOL

I agree there may be a few users "impatiently" waiting on something to upload at those speeds but i think its been exaggerated here somewhat.

I don't think it will stay at those speeds either, but it is proven that att disables faster upload speeds in all phones except for the iPhone.

Upload speeds are important to many users, and there is a reason why tmobile's are 1-2mbps, sprint's are 2-3mbps, and Verizon's lte even higher.

Att cannot compete unless they remove the cap and give the phones full access to their network.
 
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