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Remember, outside of the US LTE is essentially a non-feature, so there are lots of people who don't actually care. Then there are the people who could use LTE,
by SCdF 14y ago
Remember, outside of the US LTE is essentially a non-feature, so there are lots of people who don't actually care. Then there are the people who could use LTE, but find their current network fast enough.
I live in a place with no LTE, but honestly if it were to degrade battery life I'd rather live without it: faster network is always nice, but the current one is fast enough.
- aristidb 14y agoDue to faster download times it can apparently actually _boost_ battery life in some web surfing scenarios. Not that it matters if your network has no LTE.
- rplst8 14y agoIt may not be widely deployed outside the US, but that doesn't mean new devices shouldn't support the new standards. Imagine if when Microsoft was designing Windows 7 they said "well, no one is using IPv6 right now so we won't include any support."
- Rynant 14y agoThe difference between Windows 7 supporting IPv6 and the Nexus 4 supporting LTE is that LTE requires a physical chip that costs extra to manufacture. Why force all users to pay extra for an LTE radio if most users will not see any benefit from it?
- joonix 14y agoThe difference is Google will release another Nexus within one year that will likely have LTE. MSFT makes a new Windows version every 4 years or so.
- fulafel 14y agoCurrent operators don't have voice working on LTE, phone vendors need to keep both 3G and LTE radios on to kludge around this. When the operators/LTE network vendors get their voice act together, phone vendors can start selling proper LTE phones.
- SCdF 14y ago> Imagine if when Microsoft was designing Windows 7 they said "well, no one is using IPv6 right now so we won't include any support." That's not a fair comparison. IPv6 is required so our internet doesn't crumble around us, LTE is just getting cat pictures to your eyeballs quicker.