Awesome. AT&T has HSPA+ here in Cincinnati and as long as they let me keep my unlimited data plan, I'm golden.
It's a human problem, and will impact everyone especially as content evolves to take advantage of the speed.
Speed is meaningless when you're capped at 2gb. In fact, speed in those cases can be detrimental to your wallet.
It's not Apple's fault that American mobile operators are pathetic.
After all, Sweden has a population density roughly the same as the continental United States (as well as similarly dense urban areas) and they seem to have their cellular networks in order (as a matter of fact, they were amongst the first to have LTE).
If you want to point the blame at LTE's tardy arrival, you should squarely accuse AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and T-Mobile USA. Not Apple.
Speed is meaningless when you're capped at 2gb. In fact, speed in those cases can be detrimental to your wallet.
Oh, you mean a successful company, right?*
*that sting is just your pride, that'll go away in a few days.
Speed is meaningless when you're capped at 2gb. In fact, speed in those cases can be detrimental to your wallet.
I understand your point entirely, but faster download speeds are always good, regardless of the caps! Remember not all networks impose such caps.
Faster data is always great, but I wouldn't want to see the iPhone's phenomenal battery life diminish between 4G and a rumored 4" display.
Anyways, glad to hear Apple is pushing the envelope in regards to tech specs.
Stay well MR friends
And there go the unlimited ATT data plans, as this will require an eligible 4G data plan, none of which are unlimited
Speed is meaningless when you're capped at 2gb. In fact, speed in those cases can be detrimental to your wallet.
I agree, but when you're grandfathered in to AT&T's truly unlimited plan like I am, this is great news!
While this is *highly* unlikely, I'm hoping (if true) this supports T-Mobile's HSPA+ frequencies. I'll buy it unsubsidized (again, if offered) and use it on T-Mo. I have fantastic HSPA+ speeds in Colorado.
Was there ever any doubt of this? The MDM6600 in the Verizon iPhone supports 14.4Mbps HSPA+. Though I do wonder where they get the 21.1Mbps number from.
Qualcomm: http://www.qualcomm.com/news/releas...ls-new-roadmap-gobi-connectivity-technologies
I also have a very strong suspicious that Apple has dictated to AT&T that they aren't allowed to call any iPhone that doesn't have LTE a "4G iPhone" or even mention "4G" in their marketing materials which contain an iPhone. That would REALLY screw up Apple's marketing when an LTE iPhone comes out and people wonder "but I thought my iPhone already had 4G!"
For most things are streaming, so if buffer time is smaller does not mean you will listen or watch so much more. Just means you wait less.
I doubt you're grandfathered into 4g data.
Speed is meaningless when you're capped at 2gb. In fact, speed in those cases can be detrimental to your wallet.
My current phone, an EVO, has a widget that allows 4G to be turned on and off. Hopefully Apple gives the consumer the option.
Apple would never do that. That's against Apple's core philosophy. The fact that that option would even be necessary shows a huge failure in the carrier's part.
I'd wish Apple would use its market power at tell providers that they have to offer an unlimited data plan if they want to sell the iPhone. Apple can be progressive at times, so why not stating that with capped data plans, the experience would suffer and therefore it can only be offered with unlimited plans? Besides: Caps are only there to make more money. They don't have to buy one dollar worth more equipment to provide unlimited data. And the providers said it themselves, it only affects some heavy users. It is bogus to say that this would affect all others because they leach the bandwidth... because they still let them and charge extra.![]()
I'm wondering if Verizon is going to be behind again. Without LTE this is a bit lame for Verizon customers
You're right - I should just assume data size will not increase in the future, especially as speed increases. That's a silly assumption.
So just to get this straight, you're saying if your video downloads faster, you're going to wait after watching until the time when the download would have finished over 3g before watching something else?