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One-Third of iPhone Users Mistakenly Think They Have 4G

I have also heard some professional musicians say that unless you use to listen to Wagner or Boulez, you have the intelligence of a donkey.

As you can see anybody can judge you according to their "rules" and find you an ignorant. if you don't know Boulez or you don't appreciate his music, that doesn't make you dumb. If someone doesn't know what 4G is or if it exists or not, it doesn't make you dumb. You can call anyone dumb when you'll know everything.
 
This just proves what most of us knew all a long. 1/4 of the population aren't tech savy and doesnt give a rats behind if they got the latest and greatest hardware.
 
bobsimmons said:
And this only means that 34% of iPhone owners don't need 4G LTE, because they wouldn't know the difference.... :rolleyes:
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With the current state of 4G deployment, I'd say that its more like 90% who don't really need it. All it means is that people will be hitting their caps quicker, at least during the rare times that they're actually on 4G.

Ivabign said:
My wife spent 4G on shoes this year.

I split 1/4g at a Rolling Stones concert in 1985

Woo hoo
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The folks on the now last Shuttle mission are working in zero G.

Prodo123 said:
LTE Advanced is true 4G.
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Question... in the vast majority of the time when its not on a 4G network, is it still draining the battery at 4G rate?
 
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I think the fact that the iPhone 4 has a "4" in the name makes up for the small margin in which iPhone owners think they have 4G over the other devices.
 
NoNothing said:
WiMax and LTE are currently 3.9G as well.
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WiMax is slower than HSPA+ (HSPA+ starts at 14Mbps) ;)
Sprint's WiMax network barely hits 12Mbps on a good day.
T-Mobile runs 21Mbps and 42Mbps HSPA+ networks which are just as fast as Verizon's LTE implementation. When you can get their service. :p

Oh and I know AT&T is full of it with their "4G" network.
I'm lucky if I can pull 5Mbps on my *cough* 4G phone.
Enhanced backhaul my a$$.
 
Gen said:
HSPA+ is considered 4G - not the actual LTE-Advanced "4G", but 4G none-the-less
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None of these are 4G unless it's true that the group that defines this have massively loosened their original standards. Otherwise we're YEARS if not decades from 4G (if we ever get it).
 
Gen said:
HSPA+ is considered 4G - not the actual LTE-Advanced "4G", but 4G none-the-less
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Not true, unless the considering is being done by the company providing them. LTE actually stands for 3G Long Term Evolution.
 
wikus said:
Consumers are generally ignorant, especially apple consumers in the last 5 years (only buying apple because of the logo and pretty looks, nevermind function).
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Yeah... much smarter are those Apple buyers who bought Macs when they were vastly inferior a decade earlier. Right?
 
So 34% of people can't read the little icon at the top?
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Means there are more ignorant and/or stupid people are iphone users than there are android or blackberry. Embarrassing :(
 
Mattie Num Nums said:
I think you're wrong. Most of the Android users I know are rooted or know exactly what they have. The reason why is the technology in the Android market changes so much they have to know what they are getting. With the iPhone you get 1 new model and thats it.
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That's a function of the people you know, not what Android buyers know.
 
i can't believe

how idiotic people can be. seriously..ATT doesn't even have 4g...that should have been a clue. jesus my faith in humanity is going doooooooooownhill
 
rmhop81 said:
hmmm let's say i wasn't tech savvy and i owned an iPhone 3G. wow cool it has 3G this is awesome. Oh wait, there's now a 3GS model and that has 3G as well? i'm confused.....

oh wow cool now there is an iPhone 4 that looks totally awesome and they say it's blazing fast. My iPhone 3G was called a 3G BC it had 3G....so my new iPhone 4 probably has 4G bc it is called a 4 and they say it's blazing fast it can only have 4G!

Wow the new iPhone 5 just came out....wait i'm a little confused by the numbers here. If my 3G had 3G and my iphone 4 had 4G why doesn't my iPhone 5 have 5G...wait the iPHone 5 doesn't even have 4G yet????

LOL

if you're not tech savvy it's pretty confusing. When iphone comes out with 4g technology then gonna call it a iPhone 4G at that point or will it be an iPhone 12?
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For as rambly as your post is, your logic is perfect. This is the exact thought process that I imagine TONS of people have regarding iPhones (hell, any phones with numbers in the name!)
 
Apple should just call the new iPhone the 5G to confuse these people.

It's not like they understand that the small 4G coverage and short battery life tradeoff anyway.
 
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Not surprised considering if you've ever shopped for an iPhone case on eBay.
 
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