I live in Brooklyn NY and I have to say the 4G is amazing put my son Evo 4G to shame because he can't even use it he gets no connection smh. My phone does not switch from 3G to 4G I guess because the 4G is so strong where I live. Do people manually switch? IF so how? I don't have a problem with battery life and the 4G i guess its because I am still getting used to the phone and don't really know what I'm doing lol. Just wanted to share the news. Thunderbolt and 4G FTW!!
4G in NYC
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If you're 4G signal is working correctly, I wouldn't stress out too much about trying to switch to 3G. Mine is constantly on 4G (home and work) and while the battery life isn't great... it's about on par with my stock Dinc battery.
was kind of concerned but battery is alright for me.Same here. It's only switched to 3G once since I've had it and that's because there's one part of my driveway where I don't get quite the reception and it just happens to be where I park my car, so when I pulled into the driveway yesterday after work it switched to 3G. Then when I got out of my car and started walking to the back door, it went back to 4G.
The only think I've noticed about "Extended 4G coverage" (which my house is technically in because I'm in a valley) is the speed. I still get a pretty good signal, but instead of the 30 Mbps speeds that I'm getting at the office, I'm only getting about 5 Mbps.
wow that's strange, I also noticed when I went to my son school where it would normally say 4g it had a 1 in place of it, don't know what that mean.
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Sorry just getting coffee lol, I'm located east brooklyn and 4g with Verizon is amazing.
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No problem, lol. I used it in midtown at my office yesterday too. Once 4G was turned on the phone has been amazing. Blows my fascinate out of the water.
I know exactly what you mean, my son that has the Evo is now pissed with sprint, but all and all the Evo is a great phone just the 4G coverage in NY is basically not in existence.
Bensonhurst here...4G is amazing!! I was in awe yesterday. This phone is truly something good.
Well the issue with Sprint is the frequency. 800 MHZ and 2,500 MHZ makes a difference. At 2,500 MHZ I'm surprised more people aren't upset with Sprint. I've heard people say that they can't get 4G coverage at all when they are in their house or office, but once they step out the door they get it.
I live in Brooklyn Heights. Coverage in my apartment (desptie its concrete walls) has been relatively good. Get speeds of 10mbps down and 2mbps up (ping of around 110ms). My Time Warner cable modem only gets like 20mbps down and .7mbps up.
I'm very pleased with verizon's 4g so far, i hope the network can maintain this when there are more 4g users. Battery life is a bummer but its part of the game nowadays with all phone tech advancing except for batteries.
I'm very pleased with verizon's 4g so far, i hope the network can maintain this when there are more 4g users. Battery life is a bummer but its part of the game nowadays with all phone tech advancing except for batteries.
Also Sprint's Wimax has more of a load on it than LTE...People are getting great speeds because of Empty pipes, but as more people jump on the LTE it will slow down, especially with not being able to turn it off and on....
right now there's 4 million users on Wimax vs. 65K on LTE.....Enjoy the speeds while they last, also unless you're tethering Phones are not able process data higher than 1mbs on the phone themselves, phones just cannot render pages faster than that...Yea you may registar 12mps down, but your phones browser will never be able to handle that speed natively, so unless your tethering really doesnt matter.
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