Bring the speed! These new iPhones are going to sell like hotcakes. Once again, Jobs has earned his $1 salary and airplane. Apple got the better end of that deal when they hired him back.

The chipset (SGOLD3) that the 3G iphone is using only goes up to 7.2Mbps HSPDA. The exec can enthuse all he likes but unless apple have a tardis and are shipping chips from the future the iphone aint gonna go that fast.

You're talking about the software reference which, of course, can change.

Let's not forget the 3G chipset isn't the only part of the phone that needs the ability to handle that much data. You can't write to flash at 42 Mbps so downloading content that fast is useless.

You also need the processor to handle that kind of throughput to RAM and back. The current iPhone chokes on a lot of data so I'm not inclined to think I want tens of Mbits of data going back and forth.

Telstra here in Australia (the network where this exec appear to be from) likes to boast about how fast their 3G network is when there are in fact no devices on the market capable of it yet! At the moment it is nothing more than Marketing drivel..

It's like saying "our road can support speeds of 1000km/hr"...... woopdedoo , who cares if no car on the road can even go near that speed....one day maybe but at the moment it means nothing..

Maybe that speed is the capacity at the tower end? So a tower can serve more subscribers, so one antenna can possibly take 42 subscribers pulling down a constant 1MBps. The reality is more like 2000 1mbps subscribers per tower antenna figuring in common contention ratios.

But the really high number still sounds very fishy, like someone's wishful thinking overheard and misconstrued as a statement.

These are a selection of his comments about Apple and the iPhone.

"There's an old saying - stick to your knitting - and Apple is not a mobile phone manufacturer, that's not their knitting," Mr Winn told AAP.

"You can pretty much be assured that Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and ZTE and others will be coming out with devices that have similar functionality."

"I think people overreacted to it - there was not a lot of tremendously new stuff if you think about it," he said.

"It was maybe kind of cool on the touchscreen technology but touchscreen technology is another domain, so it's only a matter of time before it went to the device."

..It can, it can't - how about, it won't?! Here in Aussie, Telstra has the referred to network - next 3g they call it - however, the actual infrastructure to support 42Mbps download of data from say the US, whether possible chipwise or not, isn't in place - during high traffic periods, due to server bottlenecks(read lack of b/w and foward thinking/spending), Australian b/b may as well be called 'dial-up plus' - nodes are always going down, even the copper to support ADSL/2 isn't there. So, don't be envious, there's nothing to it but marketing hype...