On Friday, September 21, 2012 11:58:28 AM UTC-4, iBoaterer wrote:
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On 9/21/2012 11:15 AM, wrote:

On Friday, September 21, 2012 9:41:08 AM UTC-4, Meyer wrote:

On 9/21/2012 9:30 AM, iBoaterer wrote:

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He's been camping out at the Apple store the last few days, hoping to be
one of the first to get the new I phone.

Yeah, they FINALLY got up to 4G, where everybody else has been for two
years!

Not everybody. 4G is still a little spotty.

More than a little spotty.

http://network4g.verizonwireless.com/#/coverage

If you don't live in one of those green dots, even with "America's largest" 4G network, you're out of luck.

Personally, 3G is sufficient for anything I need, so my iPhone 4 is just fine for now. Most of my data use is when I'm around WiFi anyway.


When we hook up the sprint "bug" to surf the net we turn it off and
restart if we get 4G... It sucks, period... at least around here.

You'd rather use slower 3G than faster 4G? Figures.

You're letting your non-engineer, non-technical side show again.

The touted speeds of 3G and 4G networks are a theoretical maximum. In the real world, the actual speed you acheive varies based on many factors such as signal strength, cell site load factor, etc.

It's completely plausible that Scot is near a 3G tower but on the fringe of a 4G tower, so he gets much better data rates with 3G.

I suppose you'd just make sure the display said "4G", no matter what the results?