When am traveling sometimes by blackberry shows GPRS or EDGE and I cant really tell the difference because their speed is the same. Can someone please tell me the difference?

if there is no difference you would not have asked.

How about 3G?

Jesus. Was it that fucking hard to search google

http://www.google.com.ng/search?gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Difference+Between+Gprs+And+Edge


And how the Bleep did this weak thread make the front page?


@OP No offence

The difference btween the three is just the speed. In a layman language,It is like comparing, a  Moto cycle, a car and a Aeroplane. GPRS can only do between 56kb/s and 114kb/s as in the rate of data transfer. EDGE is an enhacement over GPRS,it can do almost 4 times of GPRS, btween 238-473kbit/s  approximately. And then 3G is the fastest, it can do up to 2Mbit/s. I hope this helps a little?

Speed is the only difference.

Bisijon, i like pple like u, thanks and to that goat that compares Christ ND HIS USELESS STAEMENTS, MAY gOD FORGIVE YOU, PPLE LIKE U FEEL THEY ARE IMPRESSING ONLINE WHILE U ARE ACTUALLY DIGGING YOUR SIT FULL GRAVE.

skeed19:

Bisijon, i like pple like u, thanks and to that goat that compares Christ ND HIS USELESS STAEMENTS, MAY gOD FORGIVE YOU, PPLE LIKE U FEEL THEY ARE IMPRESSING ONLINE WHILE U ARE ACTUALLY DIGGING YOUR SIT FULL GRAVE.

Dont mind him

vitality22:

Dont mind him

don't mind him-2nded

skeed19:

Bisijon, i like pple like u, thanks and to that goat that compares Christ ND HIS USELESS STAEMENTS, MAY gOD FORGIVE YOU, PPLE LIKE U FEEL THEY ARE IMPRESSING ONLINE WHILE U ARE ACTUALLY DIGGING YOUR SIT FULL GRAVE.

Olodo.

How about HSDPA?

How about LTE?

Difference is this: Gprs=2G, Edge=2.5G and its d middle point btw 2g and 3g.

GPRS: General Packet Radio Service. It is a 2G (2nd Generation) technology. It is the first data solution introduced on GSM that is packet switched
EDGE: Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution. Enhanced GPRS. 2.5G technology
UMTS: Universal Mobile Telecommunications System. 3G
HSDPA: High-Speed Downlink Packet Access. It is enhanced 3G also called 3.5G

You may not notice any difference in speed on most networks because the operators are cheating us. While the specified speeds are achievable between you and the BTS or NodeB (that is where you see the mast) the networks introduce bottlenecks along the path that make it almost impossible to reach the speed limit.

The browsing and downloading speed of 3g is higher than GPRS or EDGE & u can also make video call on 3g network as against GPRS.

@bisiJon
weldone, i wonder y people are fond of abusing and making caricature of others,
he who wanna learn are not afraid to ask.

lets learn to be humble is helping people learn.

@ Op, as layman, bisijon just tried for yu

good replies

[size=13pt]My brother there is a little difference. On GPRS network there is no way you can open a webpage But on Edge network its better but very slow. At least managable, I will advise not to even bother to open a webpage when your phone signal changes to GPRS[/size]

The difference is in its spelling : )

This is one thing i hate about people in this nairaland, they will start a topic looking for an answer and when the answer is given, they will not come back to say thank you. If you see them with BB you think they know a lot.

With so many search engines; and frankly, all you had to do was venture to ask a few friends. I hereby request that ALL inane questions be redirected to different board. Seun, please create a noob board. Thanks!