Which generation iPhone will have 4G (LTE) network?

[bbotte]

Ahem:
http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2009/05/11/152308.html

 

[robothero]

With all due respect - that's not the point. The poster tried to make an analogy between technology that is just on the verge of release to technology that has been declared EOL. How would an analogy of 2 completely different things work?

His point was that having a 4G iphone would offer you LTE service in an extremely limited capacity, the same way that owning an HD-DVD player will allow you to view an extremely limited number of films in that format.

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

Hmm-mmm. No CDMA. Straight LTE and GSM. The fact that it CAN work with Verizon's network will be happenstantial. It will still be with AT&T, but it will be ready before they are.

LOLs, Skil, please stop presenting your guesses as fact. You can't even support this statement with any precedent. The iPhone wasn't even 3G when 3G was already available.

 

[frosse]

There's an interview with Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T, by Walt Mossberg (All things digital) where Mr AT&T speaks about the iphone and future technology regarding wireless networks and devices. He also brings up 3G and LTE, no specific launch of LTE though, just blather blather about how it's the next natural step after 3G.

Enjoy

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

There's an interview with Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T, by Walt Mossberg (All things digital) where Mr AT&T speaks about the iphone and future technology regarding wireless networks and devices. He also brings up 3G and LTE, no specific launch of LTE though, just bladder bladder about how it's the next natural step after 3G.

Enjoy

blather is the word you're looking for

This is a bladder.

 

[frosse]

blather is the word you're looking for

This is a bladder.

Haha my bad. Guess I didn't pay enough attention in English class, huh. Would however had been fun if he'd started talking about...bladders.

 

[Riemann Zeta]

There is absolutely zero chance of 4G wireless becoming the de facto standard in the US in the next 3 years. I'm thinking 5 years for ample adoption. Remember, 3G service still sucks ass in many areas and during peak hours, those 3G tubes tend to get clogged (a clear indication that a lack of network backbone/bandwidth, rather than a client-side speed issue is to blame). And some cell providers are just now starting to roll out '3G' services. So I think that this country needs good, rock-solid implementations of current standards before we can start adding more Gs.

 

[kiranmk2]

The first phone didn't have 3G as in 2007, 3G chipsets sucked down too much power. Add on to that patchy 3G coverage and the phone would likely be in high power mode searching for a 3G network = low battery life.

By 2008, presumably more power efficient chipsets were available, but I don't understnand why Apple only had 3.6 Mbps - speeds of 7.2 Mbps were available in Europe back then...

When LTE comes out, I can imagine the first chipsets will again suck too much power to allow a phone to last a full day (with all the other things an iphone does).