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

[tigres]

3 years into having a 3G iPhone enabled device, and I still have yet to see the speeds offered by ads.

I avg about <500kb down and about 250kb up. Maybe 4g will work by 2020? Idk. I am in a major coverage area as well but the data speeds still suck and my 150 mark the spot tags seem to fall in deaf ears.

 

[silusesMac]

just goes to say how stupid society has become

 

[LuckyLuke150]

Right now on my 3GS , next to the antenna is written '3G', so what on earth do those 34% think that this means?!
Sometimes there are now worlds to describe people's intellectual skills... sad...

 

[cvaldes]

3 years into having a 3G iPhone enabled device, and I still have yet to see the speeds offered by ads.

I avg about <500kb down and about 250kb up. Maybe 4g will work by 2020? Idk. I am in a major coverage area as well but the data speeds still suck and my 150 mark the spot tags seem to fall in deaf ears.

No, no, there are no "major coverage areas" in North America.

If you want real performance you will need to travel to Southeast Asia or Scandinavia.

You might think you are accessing a "real" cellular network here in the U.S., but you aren't. You are just accessing a joke of a cellular network as though the mobile operator was being run by The Onion, Saturday Night Live, Comedy Central, etc.

Actually, I think Comedy Central would be a better mobile operator than the Big Four (Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA, Sprint).

 

[Rot'nApple]

I thought people who bought Apple were all smart!

(sarcasm)

Making a smart choice or smart decision, doesn't equate to having a high IQ. Look at Obama... He "killed" Usama bin Laden... Obama made a smart decision once... ONCE... As for the rest of this Harvard Grads choices since taking office?... </faux sarcasm>
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[ghostlyorb]

I can easily see where the confusion is made.


I can also see a confusion in what 4G is (as stated in the article).

Sometimes I wish I had a faster service but overall I find mine to be decently fast…and other times I am on WiFi so it doesn't really matter.

Exactly. 4G network.. would do nothing really. Just faster speeds.. which don't matter to me. AT&T stops 20MB+ apps from downloading anyway... and Pandora works great on 3G.. BUT... I would love 4G for tethering.

 

[zeromeus]

I thought people who bought Apple were all smart!

(sarcasm)

Some people receive the iphone as a gift. My nieces and nephews included.

 

[ghostlyorb]

100% agreed

I really wonder what these Telco companies are going to call their networks when True 4G is released?

7G

 

[Magrathea]

You are all wrong

When will you realize that the view on some techie website represent 0.8% of all smart phone users. Just give us a decent 3G signal and a decent amount of data and 99.2% of us will be happy.

Look, I've got an unlocked 3GS on Tmobile and I don't even have bloody 3G but simple old Edge and it's just fine for simple web stuff and, it seems to be more reliable and almost the same speed than my ATT 3G ever here in my area!

God, I"d love true 4G speed but you know what, with the big carriers you'll use up your entire data cap in a few days so unless they go back to unlimited data, highly unlikely, you'll be stuck with no data or bending over every time you send an email!

Nor sure what will happen in the future ......

 

[j2-core]

Apple is the company that thinks it's customers are not smart enough to tell the different between Apple App Store with Getjar App Store.

 

[OrangeSVTguy]

Apple and their crafty marketing ideas. Or a possibly false advertising scheme to lure in the less-informed?

 

[MacFly123]

I can see this - a lot of my relatives and friends call my iPhone "4G" (and I know they're not speaking of the generations).

Doesn't surprise me one bit.

"The average consumer is an idiot." - DEJO's Axiom of Consumers

Sad but true!

just goes to say how stupid society has become

Don't even get me started on the dumbing down of society. Stupid people are much easier to control. That simple! WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!

Just goes to show that the majority of people aren't tech savvy or care to know the details as long as it "just works."

Pretty much.

I thought people who bought Apple were all smart!

(sarcasm)

With any user base there are those that are smart and informed and really do know what they are talking about, and then the majority are clueless lol. There are both camps in the Apple world as any other.

Half the idiots I work with still say G3 or G4 lol!

 

[Bill Gates]

One third of iPhone users are complete bumpkins.

 

[Beligerent]

i Used to work at a corporate AT&T store and have been asked the most ridiculous questions from uninformed customers. One of my favorites was when I informed one young man that his new iPhone 4 was in fact 3G he asked how much it would be to install another "G" to make it 4G.

Now I work at verizon and the hilarity ensues. I actually find my Verizon customer slightly less tech savvy then the AT&T ones.

 

[nutjob]

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).

No group "defines" generations, they're marketing terms, or at best colloquial terms. You can talk about the actual standard used, anything else is just BS.

Sad but true!



Don't even get me started on the dumbing down of society. Stupid people are much easier to control. That simple! WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!



Pretty much.



With any user base there are those that are smart and informed and really do know what they are talking about, and then the majority are clueless lol. There are both camps in the Apple world as any other.

Half the idiots I work with still say G3 or G4 lol!

Some idiots are not only ignorant but also pretentious and arrogant. Generations don't have any specific meaning and yet these people think they are authorities on the subject.

 

[srxtr]

What?? My iPhone 4 isn't 4G??

I am so gonna sue

 

[farmboy]

Wondering if these 34% also think a G spot is where you get the best reception?

My experience is that if you locate the G spot you get very good reception indeed.

 

[dethmaShine]

One third of iPhone users are complete bumpkins.

Why don't you just stay your bed? lol

 

[pake]

It has been said, but I sum up what I believe this is due to:

1) The question being imprecise: did the public understand 4 generation or 4G internet connection?

2) What about having a second device that supports it?

3) The regular consumer doesn't care about the technical details of things, if it works...

 

[sclawis300]

This is not that surprising when you consider the fact that morons buy bottled water every day despite the fact that most of it is simply tap water.

 

[toddybody]

Wha...you mean I dont have it?

 

[lilcosco08]

Kind of reminds me of this site
http://literallyunbelievable.org/

 

[inkswamp]

So 34% of people can't read the little icon at the top?
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Maybe, but there's apparently also a high percentage of people here on MR who don't know what that 3G is there for. Is that Apple putting that there for branding purposes, to brag about a feature of the iPhone, or is it just showing you your current connection type? See, I occasionally see an "E" or a WiFi symbol there. By your logic, my phone sometimes has 3G and sometimes doesn't.

 

[Dr Kevorkian94]

it's really not surprising to me

 

[Porco]

The sample size was "over 1,000" but covered 3 phones...

So if my maths is right they're trying to draw a conclusion based on a survey of something no bigger than about 0.00001% of iPhone owners. I don't find that hugely convincing really.