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DMZ

Dec 18, 2010, 11:20 AM

I'm Waiting For The Mad Rush When The LTE Phones Come Out

Latest info on that seems to be February or March. Also, 2011 is when AT&T's exclusivity agreement with Apple REALLY expires, and you all know what that means, right?

Every last iPhone owner I know in the NYC area is counting the days until they can tell AT&T to shove it.
Tmorep6

Dec 11, 2010, 7:16 PM

Nexus One

Have you thought about testing their speeds with a 4G compatible phone instead of going with the Nexus One?
and what 4G phone do you think would be the best for this trial youre proposing
tmorep03

Dec 10, 2010, 11:23 AM

speed?

i am curious the speeds seemed really fast and its goin to be great for customers, but once verizon gets all their customers on that network how fast its goin to be?
no real way of measuring exactly what the speeds will be once more users are on it, but if the CLEAR/sprint/evo/what/are/we/idiots/how/did/w e/not/see/this/coming debocle proved to us anything its that there will be a sharp decline in the networks spee...
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belovedson

Dec 5, 2010, 10:06 PM

expensive..... enough said

In a single, long day of testing, I burned through 2 GB of data without trying too hard. All of that Netflix streaming was undoubtedly to blame. If you rely on the LTE network for your entertainment needs on a long business trip, you could easily burn through the larger 10GB data cap in a single work week watching TV and movies online. That's $80 down the drain just to watch Netflix. At that point, Verizon starts charging $10 per GB of data over the limit, which isn't exorbitant but it isn't cheap, either.

1 week. someone answer how lte is better?
the biggest issue I have read is that they alotted only 30MHZ of space for this technology, so bottlenecks will be frequent. Sprints Wimax has 300MHZ...the data highway has more lanes. Thats the reason for the flucation along with terrain.
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Better building penetration is all I can come up with for answer.
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the premise behind 4g is the same as it was with 3g. the issue is that a true 4g network does not exist. (google it. 4g is defined as 100mbps downloads, this article is about the fast network in place and if you can read youd see that the speeds dont ...
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CellStudent

Dec 4, 2010, 9:21 AM

MacBoy

I am also annoyed that there is no Mac support... I hate ebony treated like a second class citizen.

But, Apple-ites are second class citizens...
I thought that there is no Mac support and yet the picture clearly shows the modem attached to a macbook pro. so what is the deal with that.
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Jonathanlc2005

Dec 4, 2010, 5:39 AM

good review but...

you left your number on the photo 🤣
It is the phone number for the data device.
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