IRES can do a lot of things, but one of the least appreciated features is just how fast it can actually send files compared to FTP. By using finely tuned advanced networking techniques especially designed for mobile phone networks, IRES can achieve speeds almost triple what you would normally get. Seeing is believing, so I made a video of Phojo running on the AT&T Touch Pro, the Verizon Touch Pro II, and the Sprint Touch Pro II. On AT&T IRES achieves about double the speed vs FTP, on Sprint a little bit less than double, and on Verizon, almost triple the speed! The different between the slowest case, sending a file via FTP on AT&T, and the fastest case, sending a file via IRES on Verizon, is huge, 12KB/s vs 70KB/s. If you watch the last section closely you can see the Verizon phone sends almost a megabyte before the AT&T phone can even get up to full speed. Now, your results may and will vary due to how close you are to the cell towers, and in AT&T's case, how many people are using their iPhones at any given moment. In my experience, the Verizon results are pretty typical. AT&T is a lot more variable, enough to cause a lot of frustration. I can't comment on Sprint as I haven't used it as much as the others, but I did expect it to be faster.
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