4 ms·
Will the iPhone 5s's currently on China Mobile be able to utilize the new high speeds once this occurs, or will they need a new special China Mobile iPhone to u
by rebel 13y ago
Will the iPhone 5s's currently on China Mobile be able to utilize the new high speeds once this occurs, or will they need a new special China Mobile iPhone to use the 3g/4g? If that were the case I would expect a large portion of people who already have iPhones to be upgrading very early.
- Aloha 13y agoYou would likely need a phone that supports TD-SCDMA - which I dont think the iPhone has done.
- rahimnathwani 13y agoCorrect.
- rahimnathwani 13y agoSee huetsch's comment below. If you only want 2G and 4G (but not 3G), then there's already a 5s that works with China Mobile. Can anyone here share their real-life experience of China Mobile's 4G coverage in Beijing?
- huetsch 13y agoThe A1530 actually falls back to 3G and then 2G depending on the part of Beijing. I don't really understand how that works, but the 3G is also much better than the 2G, which is pretty awful. One very painful thing about the A1530 is that the 4G connection gets broken (and thrown back to 3G or 2G, depending on location) whenever a call comes in or you make a call out. You then have to manually reconnect to the 4G network. I don't really understand why this is. Maybe the voice data is being sent over the 4G network during a call or something? The China Mobile people told me explicitly about the problem. 4G has only been available since the 18th, so haven't had that much time with it, but coverage seems decent.
- rebel 13y agoThanks. With that being the case I'd feel like the sales estimations would all be rather low.
- huetsch 13y agoiPhone 5s's bought in Hong Kong (model A1530) work on the LTE network. The iPhone 5s's previously sold in the mainland, however, will not, as they lack the right chipset for receiving a TD-LTE signal. I'm guessing China Mobile will just be selling the A1530s.