On Mar 16, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Gopiballava wrote: > When I first heard that iOS 5.1 was rebranding HS something or other to 4G, I > felt mildly annoyed that my 4S would soon be showing me essentially an AT&T > marketing message sometimes. > > Now that I have an iPad with LTE, I'm annoyed. For an LTE device this > marketing stuff actually does genuinely confuse. > > Now that I think more, I'm suspecting that this was the real goal: having > iPhone 4S users see a 4G display isn't really that big a deal. What does help > them, though, is having iPad HD users not go around saying "I never see 4G!" > > Looking at it another way, I got 7 Mbps downstream on my iPad HD without LTE > (but displaying 4G). Verizon has LTE here. It would be sad for reviewers to > focus on the icons displayed rather than the performance. Verizon's slowest > 3G coverage is exceedingly slow. AT&T's fastest 3G is really fast. Perhaps > the display should be a bit rate display instead of a modulation scheme > display? I mean, do you really care what protocol gets you your bits? >
According to an article I read, the iPad, when on LTE, has an additional marker for LTE (above and beyond the 4G). If this is true, then I actually LIKE The 4G for the HSPA+ network since it should, conceivably, let me know if I am on an HSPA (3G) or HSPA+ (4G) speed network... _______________________________________________ iPhone-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/iphone-talk
