Next iPhone Will Reportedly Have "Global [4G] LTE Support"

[MacAgnostic]

Dudes, I'm taking bets on the name of this new iPhone. There is no new radical design and real 4G is in it. Thus ...

iPhone 4, totally new hardware design
iPhone 4S, a board upgrade, no new case design
iPhone 4G, new connector that takes Thunderbolt, taller and real 4G

We are not going to see "iPhone 5" for at least two years since I'm sure that is in Johnny Ive land going all over the place right now.

Yeah, riiiight ... You forgot to use /S.

The iPhone 5 IS a totally new hardware design (electronically and physically).
The iPhone 4S already has 4G (per AT&T), so it wouldn't make any sense to claim 4G support was something new.
Unless the iPhone suddenly had a PCIe bus, Thunderbolt would be impossible; it would be impractical for an iPhone anyway.

 

[bn-7bc]

I wish you guys would take a minute to research Ohm's law and power.

Saying a battery runs at 5.45 watt hours is like saying a pump pumps water at 1 cup.

Maybe this is nit-picky, but for a group of people that spend so much time talking about electronics, details like that are missed so consistently that its annoying.

IMHO that's nor being nit-picky, it's just being correct the last time I checked battery capacity was measured in Ampere Hours (well actually mAh unless you talk about seriously big batteries ie car, ups etc)
But I can easily understand why 99.9% of people (forum members (avd sometimes even myself) use watt hoers by force of habit, since we're so used to thinking about kWh when thinking about billable energy usage.

 

[Chlloret]

Are we in rewind one year back? Why do you still post this utter nonsense.

LTE is 100 MBit/s downstream LIVE on T-Mobile (just rechecked as you can order this bandwith with a LTE data tarif and a subsidized Galaxy Tab LTE) and 50 MBit/s downstram LIVE on Vodafone (premium LTE-plan available, the regular is 22 MBit/s).

LTE IS LIVE in several big cities in Germany with this speed. Go recheck your facts before playing mobile expert. Helpful Link - and yes, you can only look for 1800 MHz-LTE

Very wrong. Those speeds (up to of course) are for stationary LTE reception (outside Antenna and/or dongle) not for mobile phones.
Besides, there is no phone (or tablet) on the market that could handle this speed. Also Vodafone can not deliver this speed and the coverage map is a joke, just try it yourself.

 

[macosxuser01]

I just did a speed test on iPhone 4. I'm on AT&T and my download was 2.01Mbps, upload was 1.02 Mbps. Sounds like all over there world you guys have better 3G coverage. I live 10 miles away from Sacramento and according to AT&T there 4G LTE saids "coming soon" for Sac. I just hope it will be ready by Feburary of next year because that's when I plan to upgraded to iPhone 5. I saw a guy from Phoenix with AT&T 4G LTE posted a pic from a speed test getting 50+Mbps!! Now that's what I want.

 

[Tadow]

Will Apple release the unlocked (full price) iPhone on launch day or will it take a few weeks/months to be able to purchase it?

 

[jkichline]

But...

Apple are so behind the times. Android devices have had this capability for a while now.

But Apple has phones that last more than 6 hours on a single charge.

 

[macosxuser01]

But Apple has phones that last more than 6 hours on a single charge.

pw3nd

 

[swagi]

Very wrong. Those speeds (up to of course) are for stationary LTE reception (outside Antenna and/or dongle) not for mobile phones.

Aaaah.....that must be the reason. Vodafone simply upsells you for mere 40 bucks. Yeah...got it.

Oh...and please tell me, why I should buy into a plan with 3000 SMS; when it is just stationary. And we both know, that the HTC One XL was demoed using 50 MBit in house (I remember all the Apple-people saying "Naah, it's directly in the Vodafone headquarter. You never get that speed in real life.")

 

[jagolden]

pw3nd

Can we take the time to actually speak plainly.

 

[macosxuser01]

Can we take the time to actually speak plainly.

I was saying you were right. I agree

 

[Chlloret]

Aaaah.....that must be the reason. Vodafone simply upsells you for mere 40 bucks. Yeah...got it.

Oh...and please tell me, why I should buy into a plan with 3000 SMS; when it is just stationary. And we both know, that the HTC One XL was demoed using 50 MBit in house (I remember all the Apple-people saying "Naah, it's directly in the Vodafone headquarter. You never get that speed in real life.")

What exactly got publicity with real life speeds in common?
Please, USE the network, THEN say what you achived. The magic words are "bis zu" , meaning "up to"
It is FREE, you can test it for weeks before signing a contract.
And no, you do not get those speeds in real life. Would be pretty useless anyway, 360 seconds full speed a month before droping to ISDN. Great. And that for only $120 a month? Get real.
You can not use speeds that where realized under controled test conditions with everyday use speeds. Its already not possible because when moving you are so quickly out of coverage that the speedtest can not even finish.
But you surely drive a 5series BMW on the Autobahn with 4,9l/100km, right? As it states in the advert?

 

[Carlanga]

Sounds very American to me.
By the way, you don't know yet how the next iPhone will fare, you're only giving it credit. Let's see if it deserves it. In the meantime, everybody is free to buy Apple's next year's technology today from the competition.

Lol, true of the 70-80's, not of todays' US. I blame your people's continued love for Hasselhoff for thinking that. (See how stereotypes work )

Actually at the end of the year the competition and apple will have the same tech of 'tomorrow' that consumes less battery. I consider LTE devices of today as the betas of tomorrow no matter who makes them until the battery time gets to normal levels.

Have you owned any Android LTE devices? You can't just bunch them all together and generalize. The HTC One X on AT&T get's phenomenal battery life (better than the current 4S under real world use).

Nah, you are wrong and your battery life is actually a bit better than the world HTC One X due to being the gimped 2 core version. Your 'real world use' must have very little internet usage. Here is a graph for you:

 

[Flitzy]

Too little and too late. Android FTW

Android is a joke for hobbyists and people that don't care about quality.

Come back once you want a real phone.

 

[Gnomepatrol]

Samsung is just waiting for Apple to declare 4GLTE to slap them with their patent suits encompassing all 4GLTE devices. You can hear their lawyers pacing back and forth like caged lions lol.

 

[Ballis]

Samsung is just waiting for Apple to declare 4GLTE to slap them with their patent suits encompassing all 4GLTE devices. You can hear their lawyers pacing back and forth like caged lions lol.

Why? Apple allready use LTE in their iPad. Why didnt Samsung respond allready?

 

[macosxuser01]

Why? Apple allready use LTE in their iPad. Why didnt Samsung respond allready?

I thought it was HSPA+ not LTE
Am I wrong?

 

[swagi]

And no, you do not get those speeds in real life. Would be pretty useless anyway, 360 seconds full speed a month before droping to ISDN. Great. And that for only $120 a month? Get real.

When was the last time you fully downloaded 2 GB of data over your wireless connection? Heck, when was the last time you received your SMS that your speed will be throttled?

I barely get them with a 500 MB limit. Nevertheless it would be quite convenient (and battery saving to say the least) if your data radio was on for merely a second or two and then switched off again.

I personally wouldn't mind seperate radios for data and phone functions. I'd prefer my phone falling back to 2G when idle or when - well - performing a call. That could make those batteries last way longer.

 

[leroypants]

Can anyone explain the point of LTE if we have data caps?

 

[linkgx1]

Hypocrisy starts in 3...2...1.. O at least on Wednesday!

 

[I WAS the one]

I really hope something big and unespected this Sept 12

 

[Flitzy]

Samsung is just waiting for Apple to declare 4GLTE to slap them with their patent suits encompassing all 4GLTE devices. You can hear their lawyers pacing back and forth like caged lions lol.

Samsung should worry about creating devices that are actually good now that they can't steal from Apple any more before they worry about suing anyone.

 

[Chlloret]

When was the last time you fully downloaded 2 GB of data over your wireless connection? Heck, when was the last time you received your SMS that your speed will be throttled?

I barely get them with a 500 MB limit. Nevertheless it would be quite convenient (and battery saving to say the least) if your data radio was on for merely a second or two and then switched off again.

I personally wouldn't mind seperate radios for data and phone functions. I'd prefer my phone falling back to 2G when idle or when - well - performing a call. That could make those batteries last way longer.

I have 15GB Data, then I get throttled (iPad) usually I reach that limit around the 25th, sometimes on the 20th, that depends on my workload. I log on to different machines, Windows and Mac, so that the desktop, programmes ect auf dem iPad laufen.
Also, I like US TV, and with my VPN I watch a lot of that, the iPad streams it onto the big screen.
I live in Spain, the fixed line ADSL (Wifi) is slower, sometimes a lot slower, then 3G, also more expensive.
Slowly they install fiber here, but it will be a couple of years until that reaches me.
The "Flat rates" they offer in Germany are quite redicoulus, but it seems people pay that there. Good for the providers, bad for the clients.

 

[xelterran]

Welcome to 2 years ago, Apple...

 

[Dandrews524]

The news were about a phone, not an operating system. Do you know the difference?

lol @xanagu not even being able to troll correctly

 

[NumberNine]

But Apple has phones that last more than 6 hours on a single charge.

Hmmm..my 4G Rezound lasts me all day through work

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Samsung should worry about creating devices that are actually good now that they can't steal from Apple any more before they worry about suing anyone.

you should worry about yourself and not Samsung or Apple