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Probably a typo... :P For me the surprise was iPhone 3G back then with Apple skipping the iPhone 2. Apple probably was thinking about iPhone 4G but it wasn't p
by iaskwhy 15y ago
Probably a typo... :P
For me the surprise was iPhone 3G back then with Apple skipping the iPhone 2. Apple probably was thinking about iPhone 4G but it wasn't perfect yet or they just wanted to stop marketing hardware features like that.
- tesseract 15y agoApple likes to call their products by the same name worldwide. Are there any countries other than the US where HSPA+ networks are advertised as 4G? And on the other hand, are there countries where advertising HSPA+ as 4G is prohibited?
- iaskwhy 15y agoIn at least some European countries 4G is everywhere.
- dangrossman 15y agoThat doesn't answer either question -- first you need to define what they're calling "4G" in those countries. Is it HSPA+? WiMax? LTE?
- iaskwhy 15y agoTrue, sorry, I read it as something else.
- ugh 15y agoI think both 3G and 4G are a lot less present in carriers’ marketing in Germany. And maybe I missed it but I haven’t seen a big marketing campaign for 4G in Germany. I wasn’t even aware how widely available it already is†. Carriers in Germany seem to be a lot more willing to use standard names for their marketing, e.g. UMTS, HSDPA, LTE, probably mostly because all carriers are using the same standards. (No one uses CDMA in Germany.) I also haven’t seen any carrier refer to something as 4G that’s not LTE. — † http://www.t-mobile.de/funkversorgung/inland/ http://www.t-mobile.de/funkversorgung/inland/ — http://www.vodafone.de/privat/hilfe-support/netzabdeckung.html http://www.vodafone.de/privat/hilfe-support/netzabdeckung.ht... What I would like to know is why LTE is available in all those weird places with relatively low population densities and rarely in cities. What’s going on there?