
This is LTE
The iPhone 4S can use LTE. It's not lying, it's just a propagation of the vague specifications of '4G'.
To be fair, other phone manufacturers are doing this, so Apple is just joining in.
Apple's iOS 5.1 upgrade has left iPhone 4S-owning Americans baffled after their shiny smartphones claimed to have 4G connections, er, when they don't. Here in Blighty, we know we're not going to get 4G internet on our new iPads, or anything else for that matter until at least a few years. But iPhone 4S owners on the AT&T …
You’re being lied too and you’re accepting it. It's only 'cause it's your (RUBBISH|DATED) iPhone you're prepared to put up with it!
HSPA+ is NOT 4G, doesn't matter what AT&T say.
Have you not realised that big companies will say anything for your dollar? (Stupid question, he bought an iPhone) They are about as credible as a peado denying an erection in a playground! (And as morally bankrupt)
.. is pretty much 100Mbs wireless connection while on the go, and 1Gbs while stationary. The technology AFAIK is largely irrelevant as long as you meet the speed definition. HSPA+ actually gets to 42Mbs on my "4G" Tmobe SGSII, which is the same speed as Verizon's current LTE, except without the battery penalty of another radio. Currently there is no real "no quotes" 4G in customer hands that I'm ware of.
With that said, I don't care what they call it as the speeds continue to go up, just don't call me late for dinner. :)
Errr, nope. That's what it used to be. Then they subsequently dropped the speed requirement a few notches (I believe El Reg reported on it) in order to placate the mobile networks who would be in no position to offer true 4G any time soon. It's now not worth taking notice of any labels and just looking at your speedtest results.
I guess it's a tough one. Like somebody else said, much of the LTE we see now isn't true 4G, yet people (and carriers) are calling it that. If you upgrade your olden 3G network until it's faster than the also-3G LTE that rivals are calling 4G, you have a better product that people ignore because it's last-generation and therefore old and slow. Do you call it 3G or 4G?
People to blame and put to the gallows for this one:
1. The standards setters for failing to nail down what 4G is
2. The carriers for marketing yesterday's tech as tomorrows
3. Apple for letting the carriers get away with it
They need to be standing about four thousand miles to the west of their current location.
Whats this..some hidden small print....on the back of the case........
iPhones cure all known disaease - not available on all planets - please check with your mobile provider.
Yeah, I mean for christ's sake, it's only a network/mobile maker effectively lying about their product's capabilities in order to promote it over identical offerings. Anyone would think this was a technology website or something! Let's ditch these stupid non-news stories and get back to global economics and interviews with Greenpeace.
"Yeah, I mean for christ's sake, it's only a network/mobile maker effectively lying about their product's capabilities in order to promote it over identical offerings"
well, it's more the other way around, really - HSPA+ operators have been calling everything in sight '4G' for a while now, so this is more the iPhone catching up than the other way around.
I did see a rather interesting infographic at some point which made a rather strong case that HSPA+ provides pretty much the same bandwidth as LTE, given the same bandwidth: LTE is not innately faster than HSPA+, really, but just requires honking chunks of bandwidth by default. Made me stop and think for a bit.
Just look at the number of 10/100 switches on eBay that are advertised as "Gigabit" (oh, the ports aren't but the internal fabric is as I was told...), or "USB3/FW800 compatible" really means it's a USB2/FW400 device that can use faster interfaces, yes it's 3.6Ghz (when it's really 1.8Ghz with hyperthreading) I wouldn't call 3 months a "long" MOT, etc. etc. etc.
....this phone can do 5H.
'cos 5 comes after 4 and H comes after G. Now go and buy that piece of plastic and you will be "in", "sexy", "desirable", "worth the procreation".
Still not satisfied in life? Buy our 6i mobile. 'cos 6 comes after 5 and i after h. This should help you find your inner peace.
Oh - it didn't work out? Buy our 7j mobile...