The fact is NOBODY makes a true 4G phone and no cellular provider in the US has a 4G network either - the ITU made this clear. Nobody will be close to 4G for at least a few years.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20022011-266.html
iPhone 5 ponderings . . .
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20022011-266.html
so i have heard, but the phones still have 4g modes that suck electrons.
ITU was clear, these new radio systems are not 4G. First generation anything is never ideal.
I get very annoyed when it gets int he way of my touch grind bmx sessions! **** OFF texts!
Could really care less whether they call it 3.1G, 3.5G, 3.99999999G, etc, I'm loving the consistent 16mb down, 6mb up on mine (VZ's LTE)... If VZ needs to differentiate it from the agonizingly slow speeds of 3G, I'm totally ok with whatever they call it.
What device are you on? You notice any downsides to the NO2 speed boost, like heat, glitches in the matrix, rouge groups of British dwarves appearing in your closet?
Using a HTC Thunderbolt. Phone gets a bit warm when using as a mobile tether, and battery life suffers if you're using 4G. Standby can easily last a day plus and barely use any battery, whereas heavy internet use'll soak it down in ~4 hours. Not a problem for me, and apparently if you call up and complain you might be able to obtain a bigger battery from Verizon. Haven't tried that, though...
I will say that the speed is a bit..... superfluous though. I mean, no bittorrent. No Netflix (unless you hack it). Additional money spent for mobile tethering (again, unless you root it). No HDMI out, so even if you do DL movies, you're stuck on your little screen. Surfing the net seems mostly limited by your processor and ping (and I haven't tried finding adblock for it yet). And to top it all off, if you use too much bandwidth, VZ can throttle back your speeds.
So, stupidly fast, yes. Practical application? Not worth paying more for it over 3G, IMO (with VZ, it's the same price).
I will say that the speed is a bit..... superfluous though. I mean, no bittorrent. No Netflix (unless you hack it). Additional money spent for mobile tethering (again, unless you root it). No HDMI out, so even if you do DL movies, you're stuck on your little screen. Surfing the net seems mostly limited by your processor and ping (and I haven't tried finding adblock for it yet). And to top it all off, if you use too much bandwidth, VZ can throttle back your speeds.
So, stupidly fast, yes. Practical application? Not worth paying more for it over 3G, IMO (with VZ, it's the same price).
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Using a Verizon card in downtown Long Beach, I was uploading to an ftp at higher speeds than at home with a Uverse connection.
I don't know if that's a measure of how fast Verizon's wireless is, or how bad AT&T's Uverse sucks. And I like my Uverse connection
I have a 6down/1up U-Verse connection primarily because I'm a cheap bastard and don't want to pay the extra $5/month for the 12down/1.5up plan. VZ's wireless blows either of those out of the water, especially on the upload speed. Now, if they just had the capacity to allow for unlimited data, they could pretty much take over home internet usage without having to lay miles and miles of fiber (kind of like how cell phones have taken over from landlines).Using a Verizon card in downtown Long Beach, I was uploading to an ftp at higher speeds than at home with a Uverse connection.
I don't know if that's a measure of how fast Verizon's wireless is, or how bad AT&T's Uverse sucks. And I like my Uverse connection
Yeah, as is it's like a 2 mile long autobahn. Not nearly as useful as it could be.