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4G Phones Are Really Fast — At Draining Batteries
Hugh Pickens writes "With Verizon's 4G network covering a good chunk of the country and AT&T gaining ground, more smartphone users have access to the fastest wireless service available. But because 4G coverage isn't truly continuous in many locations, users' batteries are taking a big hit with 4G, as phones spend an lot of battery power trying to hunt down a signal. 'You've got a situation where the phones are sending out their signals searching and searching for a 4G tower, and that eats up your battery,' says Carl Howe, a vice president for research firm Yankee Group. The spottiness of 4G stems at least in part from the measured approach carriers have taken to it, rolling out the service city by city. There are a few tricks 4G users can try to extend battery life such as turning off your 4G connection when you don't need the fastest speeds — when using email, for instance — or using a program such as JuiceDefender to search for apps you may have downloaded that you don't need to run all the time, and erase them."
Yea no kidding. I think this 'worse than previous generation' concept must be something smartphone (Android?) apologists seem to hand waive over.
People mocked Apple for not including 4G in the iPhone 4S,
We mock Apple because they pretend to be ahead of the competition in technology, when in reality they are far behind the bleeding edge.
When Apple fanboys stop pretending Iphones aren't old tech, we'll stop mocking you for it.
Android is an early adopter, we perfect new tech so by the time Apple is floundering with the introduction of LTE, Android will be running it well. Remember that Apple had trouble implementing 3G when everyone else could do it properly. As yet, Iphones still dont have HSPA+, which has been around since the Iphone was first released. The Iphone 4S does not even have 3.5 G tech (Sorry, no other country in the world thinks HSPA+ is 4G and even Australia had HSPA+ before the US).
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.