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Ask Slashdot: Do 4G World Phones Exist?
First time accepted submitter Viv Savage (3679171) writes "I live in the U.S. but my daughter will be attending college overseas next year (Scotland specifically). I need to purchase a new phone for her and I'm curious what the Slashdot community would recommend. I understand that a GSM world phone supporting 850/900/1800/1900 MHz frequencies would give her the best voice support. There doesn't appear to be a solution for getting high-speed data (i.e., 4G) here and abroad with one phone. Have any worldly Slashdotters figured this out?"
I didn't claim 4G/LTE. I claimed it worked fine. No worse than in the US which is supposed to offer 4G, but forgets to actually attach it to the internet by anything faster than a damp piece of string.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
And if she gets an iPhone, she will be enjoying a much better life. (http://apple-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/06/03/1419220/apple-says-many-users-bought-an-android-phone-by-mistake)
And what 4G phones are fully waterproof? This is Scotland we're talking about.
Red to red, black to black. Switch it on, but stand well back.
They have cell phone shops too. She should buy herself a cell phone in Scotland.
On her first day in a strange country, she's supposed to negotiate a complicated, expensive purchase in a foreign language?
I mean some may talk funny, but since when does that count as a "foreign language"?
Don't go blaming us Brits for treating American as a foreign language. I was in a Chicago book store several years ago and was amused to see that they had the Oxford English Dictionary on the shelves of the foreign language section.