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> can be done even with 3G (video, streaming music, and any website's loading time is more than acceptable at 3G speeds). I think you forgot how slow 3G was/is
by kllrnohj 8y ago
> can be done even with 3G (video, streaming music, and any website's loading time is more than acceptable at 3G speeds).
I think you forgot how slow 3G was/is. It's around 512KBps. You can stream music on that, but streaming video is a straight nope (480p on youtube wouldn't even be happy with 3G) and even just browsing the web will be a frustratingly slow experience.
4G LTE definitely has the bandwidth to do all those things are reasonable quality/throughput particularly for the resolution & form factor of the device in question, though.
- kalleboo 8y ago"3G" also encompasses HSPA which supports real-world speeds in the 10s of megabits. The original 3G UMTS (384kbps) was indeed dreadfully slow by today's standards.
- kllrnohj 8y agoHSPA+ will hit real-world speeds in the 10s of megabits, but HSPA won't. Both are technically in the "3G" spec, though, you're right about that. But they were marketed/branded as 4G almost immediately.
- kalleboo 8y ago> But they were marketed/branded as 4G almost immediately That was just a US thing though, right? Where I lived it was branded "Turbo 3G". Isn't LTE already being branded as 5G in the US as well?