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This is why I'm waiting for an LTE iPhone. :)
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So I could use iTunes match effectively as a streaming service, why the hell are people so dismissive of LTE anyway with this talk of "Why would you even need it, it's TOOO fast".
Shut up, jeez, I bet you thought your 56K modem was just fine too back in the day, huh?
I asked him the same thing a few days ago and pretty much got the same answer.
OP: If your all over fast download speeds I'd like to introduce you to WIFI or high speed Internet, it's really a great thing. You should look into it.
You are absolutely correct when it comes to battery life. Proper power management software does indeed take advantage of LTE's efficiency. It's different than 3G power management, therefore when a manufactures uses a modified 3G profile it's a compromise that sacrifices run times.
Once Apple let's go of it's conservative approach and decides to do it the right way, then LTE iPhones will be great.
Unfortunately as usual we'll have to wait since Apples track record is lagging behind the competition in some areas. It's like the first iPhone. Every other phone at the high end had 3G when Apple introduced the archaic iPhone, running on EDGE, not 3G. Part of that was greed since Apple left out something their users wanted which assured Apple the iPhone II would be in high demand.
Apple is nothing, if not clever when it comes to sucking the funds right out of us.
You could be right, but I'm skeptical it will work out this well. I see quite a lot of situations now where I have four bars of 3G signal but the internet response is really slow. I guess the backend support is not keeping up with the bandwidth of the radio. In a year or two when much more infrastructure is built out I think things will work much better.
I have a samsung droid charge (LTE) that was pretty bad stock on Froyo, but is great on the new gingerbread leaks running a modded kernel by Imoseyon. So I don't think it is strictly an LTE problem inasmuch as programming or settings. I've gone from 10 hours stock to 20+ hours.
Don't understand why all these people don't want LTE in the phone. Obviously Apple wouldn't include it unless they could get decent battery life out of it.
Also, if anyone is going to make a comment about LTE, I think it would be better if you had personal first-hand experience with an LTE phone rather than pure speculation based on rumors, 2nd-hand info or reviews online.
same/lower than home connections? I get 7 and thats on a cheap college connection (with 25down/4up)
Colleges usually have direct lines to the main infrastructure of the internet and not using a middle man[ISP's]. And LTE in the video linked in the original post gave 50s-60s ping results on a single bar. With full bars I'd imagine we would see it dropping into the single digits.
According to a leaked slide from China Unicom, iPhone 5 will support HSPA+ with 21mbps DL speed, which is three times as fast as that of iPhone 4.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393828,00.asp
OP, if the above news turn out to be true, then iPhone 5 will support 4G.
Before anyone jumps on the definition of 4G, please be aware that its definition changes over time, and according to the most recent updated ITU definition, HSPA+ is 4G.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2374564,00.asp#fbid=so-OCj-m_Mc
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393828,00.asp
OP, if the above news turn out to be true, then iPhone 5 will support 4G.
Before anyone jumps on the definition of 4G, please be aware that its definition changes over time, and according to the most recent updated ITU definition, HSPA+ is 4G.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2374564,00.asp#fbid=so-OCj-m_Mc
LTE is in it's own category no matter what anyone re-defines it as. The whole point of naming it Long Term Evolution is to future proof it. So theoretically we can say 7G will just be another product of LTE.
Agree...apple will always be behind the competitor in hardware...
Look At how long it took them to add a video camera
I won't say that they will always be behind. I think Apple will release a feature when it feels that it has worked out all it can to provide user with a good experience, and this may take place before or after competition.
well I didn't mean the connection the university itself provides, I mean the cheap package we (my roommates and I) as students could afford for our (off campus) house