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Cutting Through the 4G Hype
crimeandpunishment writes "Cell phone companies are about to bombard us with advertising for the next big thing — 4G access. The first 4G phone, Sprint Nextel's EVO, comes out this week. But just how big a deal is 4G? Is it fast enough to warrant the hype, or are consumers better off waiting a while? AP technology writer Peter Svensson looks at the differences between 4G and 3G technologies."
You guys are just posting this story because...Apple doesn't have a 4G and you're jealous.
Sorry.
Had to be said.
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4 > 3. 'nuff said.
Other than that, it's difficult to point to completely new uses for 4G phones -- things they can do that 3G phones can't.
Couldn't you say the same thing about Dial-Up? After all, its difficult to point to completely new uses for broadband, things they can do that dial-up connected computers can't. The point of 4G isn't to be "revolutionary", it wasn't claimed to be. It is simply trying to be faster. The same thing could have been said about EDGE to 3G.
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So, I take it that the author of this article is happy just using EDGE, right? Since that's only distinguished from 3G by its speed?
No need to worry about HTC (who, with your worry about speed, will probably only ever update your device once. Or twice) - just jump on the XDA-Developers bandwagon!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/
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Oddly enough, non-geeks seem to love video conferencing. We tend not to care much about seeing a person, but lots of grandparents of the world consider to be really great.
I think geeks are more interested in what a person has to say. The mundanes love all the non-lingual communication with body language, and seeing people smile and stuff. I don't really understand it, but it is very common.
Yes, some people play multiplayer games on their cell phones. As the technology improves, and makes a wider range of multiplayer games easy an impressive, I'm sure it'll become more common. The cell phone is becoming a more ubiquitous platform for applications than the PC, which means that people have come up with all sorts of uses for them, and will continue to push the envelope with new ideas.
And, Skype is one of the things people commonly use for video conferencing.
After all, its difficult to point to completely new uses for broadband, things they can do that dial-up connected computers can't
YouTube. Now was that so hard?
No, that would be 4g-3g
4G-3G is more like 6.67428*10^-11 N m^2/kg^2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_constant
Uh? I found this article quite good: it explain to users why they could care about lower latency (not for surfing the web but for multiplayer games) and it doesn't oversell 4G.
As they say the 4G can theoretically provide higher bandwith and lower latency but as always it depends on the implementation:
if the backbone is overused for example, a better radio access network won't bring much benefit to users..
So that's not weasel words, just being cautious..
Sprint's 4G is just MiMAX (40Mbit/s), as opposed to actual, real, rest-of-the-world 4G (1Gbit/s). It's bullshit.
Unless you are doing some real-time interaction with a server or another client (live voice, live video or multi-player gaming) or unless the latency is measured in seconds instead of milliseconds, how does latency impact typical mobile data access? For the average user (streaming multimedia and web page access), download speed will have the biggest impact.
Yes, and of course CDMA is non-migratory.
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