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Next iPhone Will Reportedly Have "Global [4G] LTE Support"
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If you were so confident of Android's superiority why would you create an account on an Apple forum simply to troll?
Ever seen "Falling Down"?
I swear that if AT&T decides to shaft the unlimited data clients by not providing them with LTE service, I'm going to the nearest store with a baseball bat..
I swear that if AT&T decides to shaft the unlimited data clients by not providing them with LTE service, I'm going to the nearest store with a baseball bat..
It is an evolution of those standards, but LTE is almost as different from GSM as GSM is from CDMA/EV-DO. Still, it does use WCDMA, so in that sense it is more akin to the wireless standards developed by the 3GPP.
Vodafone havn't bought any 800Mhz/2.6GHzLTE bandwith as yet, they will have to bid for it with a number of other carriers, (presumably once various legalities are sorted with OFCOM, as they might challenge Everything Everywhere's LTE green light), but im sure one of those frequencies will be compatible with it. Trouble is no-one actually knows what chip is in the phone, regardless it should be ok.
Everything Everywhere will be launching 1800MHz LTE shortly, apparently right before the speculated iP5 launch, they probably already know if its compatible, hence the rush to get it out in time.
For the record, im glad EE got the go ahead, i probably wouldnt switch to them just for that service, but it will make Vodafone and O2 pull their bloody finger out. Its shocking the Government, OFCOM and carriers have lagged so far behind.
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I posted further up that Everything Everywhere (owner of T-mobile and Orange) plan to launch it the day before the new Iphone gets released!
I was thinking about upgrading from a 4 to a 4S off eBay and staying off contract. However, an LTE world phone will make me pause and reconsider.
The thought of having Verizon LTE in the U.S. and then jumping across the pond, buying a prepaid SIM, and having LTE in Europe or Asia is exciting. If the next iPhone has support for LTE around the world, it will raise the bar and set the standard like Apple has done with the iPhone in the past.
The thought of having Verizon LTE in the U.S. and then jumping across the pond, buying a prepaid SIM, and having LTE in Europe or Asia is exciting. If the next iPhone has support for LTE around the world, it will raise the bar and set the standard like Apple has done with the iPhone in the past.
LTE 4G on 1800MHz (Orange/T-Mobile next week in the UK) and 800MHz (all UK carriers next year) please.
This is cool if you live in a big city like LA/NY/SF but are 4G towers gonna be norm soon because I don't think where I live (Sacramento, CA) they DON'T have any LTE towers even though it's a fairly big city
Wow! A phone technology that preempts 90% of the world's adoption of it. Sounds great. Kinda like thunderboldt. 
At the very least, a Verizon LTE iPhone should work on 3G overseas. The current Verizon iPad works on 3G overseas with the appropriate overseas provider's SIM card installed, if I'm not mistaken.
Thank you for shutting him up.
These fandroids trolling this forum are like little annoying fleas.
And getting back on topic, like many said, I think we were all expecting LTE at this point, even though I'm keeping my 4S.