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Wall Street Journal Confirms 4G LTE iPad for AT&T and Verizon
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Yeah, I feel ya. I spend way more time setting up & tweaking my phone than actually using it.
You managed to use more RAM on an iPad than I use on my Mac? Man, OSs are getting more and more wasteful every year!
It won't be the 6th generation, it will be the 6th version. It will be the 4th generation so split the difference and you get 5!
Where is your logic? It is indeed the 6th generation..
All of ATTs LTE towers have fiber backhaul now. Also, LTE has AMAZING latencies. Ping rates in the 50ms range vs. 100-150ms for HSPA+. It feels like Wifi even when you're just browsing.
Then Apple sued them
Ultimate strategy.
Actually they didn't. They tech crime force or w/e it's called, which apple started no less, were the ones who busted down Chen's door and went through his stuff. Supposedly.
Just fine. It's huge. Not as much as an issue with the iPad compared to the small one in the iPhone.
Isn't LTE just the air transmission, not the towers? I thought it was just on a different frequency and faster, not referring to better cell tower wired connections.
I'm with you on the shared data as well as texts. I have that for minutes. I have 6 iPhones on the same bill, so you don't 'need' multiple bills.
Of course iPhone 5 will be LTE. It can't ship without it. Nobody is going to lock in the next iPhone for another two years on 3G. That's crazy talk. The next iPhone number is 5 and it will be called the iPhone 5.
That's what i've heard from Sprint reps. 4G feels like Wifi and that's a good thing.
Because sales reps always tell it like it is.
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THIS. The one thing AT&T can do to get me off my grandfathered unlimited iPhone data plan is a shared data plan. If they want people to switch, they need to quit the obnoxious throttling and offer shared plans. I would gladly give up unlimited to share 5 GB/month between my iPhone, my wife's iPhone, and an iPad.
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THIS. The one thing AT&T can do to get me off my grandfathered unlimited iPhone data plan is a shared data plan. If they want people to switch, they need to quit the obnoxious throttling and offer shared plans. I would gladly give up unlimited to share 5 GB/month between my iPhone, my wife's iPhone, and an iPad.
LTE is going to be so awesome when we get it here in three or four years!!!
I had 3G phones for 5 years before it was something that I had turned on full time. Hopefully LTE will be useful faster but in no hurry to have it on my Phone. The big problem with 3G at least around here was that if you hit a poor coverage area it didn't fail gracefully so you'd get cut off. Yet iPad that can take advantage of that data speed and with adhoc Data Plans we have around here LTE iPad seems like it'll be more usefully out of gate.
Unless LTE (or the Apple baseband team) has much more reliable fallback systems.
These rumors are nothing new, just closer to being believable.
What no one seems to wonder or leak is how the iPad's function will expand to make it more like a desktop in your hands, or how it will be improved beyond mere resolution and hardware specs. I am curious if Apple has anything in store for the launch.
Guess we have to wait 3 weeks.
What no one seems to wonder or leak is how the iPad's function will expand to make it more like a desktop in your hands, or how it will be improved beyond mere resolution and hardware specs. I am curious if Apple has anything in store for the launch.
Guess we have to wait 3 weeks.
I think he was suggesting that the first iPhone is the 1st generation, then 3G and 3Gs were the second, then iPhone 4 and 4s were the third, then this would technically be the 4th generation. lol I'm personally just waiting to see what Apple calls it haha until then I'll refer to it as 'iPhone 5' or 'the next iPhone'
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That definitely sounds like something that would be saved for the actual launch. It's one thing to get hardware pieces but to see how the whole thing works would be a bit more than a leak, and if it happened Apple would probably make security on new devices even higher than it already is.
iPhone 4GS
then it might be named, like this:
iPhone 4GS in 2012, iPad 4 in 2013
iPhone 5 in 2013, iPad 5 in 2014
iPhone 6 in 2014, iPad 6 in 2015
What's the use with the current data plans? If you use LTE at full potential, you'll be paying a lot monthly. 3gb per month is nothing in fast Internet connection, especially if you want me to rely on iCloud as much as Apple want us.
No, ATT had to upgrade their backhaul at each LTE tower to accommodate all the new bandwidth. I've been to SF, LA, Chicago, Houston, Boston, New York, and Vegas and I consistently get 30-40Mbps. You'll love it!
Hey, who wants to chip in so we can get $5000, pay someone to repeatedly download Zynga apps on the App Store, and have Apple remove it because it got promoted?
Cheaper, more effective and more reliable than IP Lawyers.
