What does "4G-Like" mean?

[sbudaj]

On the Motorola website for the Droid, it says:"4G-like power and speed".

What does that mean? Isn't it really 4G?

DROID BIONIC BY Motorola - Android Social Smartphone - - Overview - Motorola Mobility, Inc. USA

 

[kentusmc]

LTE isn't 4G, while it is a new standard, it doesn't meet the speed requirements to be 4G.

 

[Chris Kerrigan]

LTE won't meet it's full potential for quite a few years (which is where Advanced LTE will come into play). My guess is this is Motorola's way of getting around that.

 

[Droid800]

On the Motorola website for the Droid, it says:"4G-like power and speed".

What does that mean? Isn't it really 4G?

DROID BIONIC BY Motorola - Android Social Smartphone - - Overview - Motorola Mobility, Inc. USA

That was referencing the power and speed of the processor and RAM, not the network. The copy was just VERY poorly written.

 

[kentusmc]

That was referencing the power and speed of the processor and RAM, not the network. The copy was just VERY poorly written.

Being as how they finish the sentence with "much greater than typical 3G", they are referring to the radios.

 

[1812dave]

On the Motorola website for the Droid, it says:"4G-like power and speed".

What does that mean? Isn't it really 4G?

DROID BIONIC BY Motorola - Android Social Smartphone - - Overview - Motorola Mobility, Inc. USA

semantics. Not to worry--it will be much faster than 3G. You should get over 5Mb/sec.

 

[Droid800]

Being as how they finish the sentence with "much greater than typical 3G", they are referring to the radios.

Read the copy before it.

'With 512 MB ram and a dual-core processor, DROID BIONIC by Motorola allows you to experience 4G like power and speeds much greater than typical 3G'.

The bolded part of the sentence references the processor and ram, which is what they were comparing to 4G-like speeds. The second part references the network.

Like I said, really poorly written copy.

 

[Brett]

wait so if LTE is considered by verizon as "4G-like", how come t-mobile and ATT can get away with just saying it is "4G"? LTE is faster the HSPA+

 

[thebizz]

vzw can call it 4g and out of the networks its the only one I will call 4g all others are 3.5g

 

[Chris Kerrigan]

vzw can call it 4g and out of the networks its the only one I will call 4g all others are 3.5g

+1. I don't consider HSPA+ 4G by any means, which completely eliminates AT&T and T-Mobile. WiMax is meh...most agree that technology is on it's way to the grave anyway.

 

[thebizz]

And that sucks if they could have chosen a better band to operate on wimax could have been a winner especially with advanced right around the corner that seems to be a beast. but winax was the reason I didn't get an evo I saw the writing on the wall that wimax was going nowhere fast even though I have wimax coverage

 

[The_Engine]

yeah and now with sprint's WiMax provider pretty much broke, it looks like they will be converting to LTE anyway. But still, VZW owns most of the 700MHz band in America. ATT has a decent chunck but not much.

Does anyone know if LTE will run on other bands? I think so, but not sure.

In any event VZW is so confident in their LTE network that they are looking at using it for FIOS instead of running all that fiber.

 

[thebizz]

Yes lte should be able to run on different bands but the 700mhz band seems great now VZW be as quick as sprint and have lte in my area within a year and when I say my area sprint has wimax around my house but the coverage is spotty at best

 

[sniffs]

Regardless if the ITU isn't claiming LTE/WiMax "4G", it's technically the ONLY network that's based on a fourth generation cellular technology.

So, when AT&T releases their LTE, what they going to call it? 5G?


Also, regardless if they call it "4G-Like".. you're going to see MUCH better speeds on this device than any other "4G" devices by AT&T/T-Mobile..

Check out the AT&T Atrix 4G thread on here called "Atrix data speeds suck" and you'll see what I mean.

 

[kentusmc]

Read the copy before it.

'With 512 MB ram and a dual-core processor, DROID BIONIC by Motorola allows you to experience 4G like power and speeds much greater than typical 3G'.

The bolded part of the sentence references the processor and ram, which is what they were comparing to 4G-like speeds. The second part references the network.

Like I said, really poorly written copy.

I did read it, I guess its just how you read it

 

[Droid800]

I did read it, I guess its just how you read it

Yeah, its just piss-poor writing on the part of their marketing department. If two different people reading the same copy can read it in different ways, they're not doing a good enough job.

 

[Hand_O_Death]

'With 512 MB ram and a dual-core processor, the DROID BIONIC by Motorola allows you to experience the power of 4G with speeds much greater than found with typical 3G'.

I like my version much better.

 

[sniffs]

'With 512 MB ram and a dual-core processor, the DROID BIONIC by Motorola allows you to experience the power of 4G with speeds much greater than found with typical 3G'.

I like my version much better.

Mine's 1up'd yours.

"'With 512 MB ram and a dual-core processor, the DROID BIONIC by Motorola allows you to experience the power of 4G-LTE with speeds much greater than found with typical 3G, and much greater than AT&T's/T-Mobile's fake "4G" networks.."

 

[Hand_O_Death]

Mine's 1up'd yours.

Well done sir.

 

[sniffs]

Here's a speed test I just ran on Verizon LTE. I get this on average, consistantly with 2 bars.

In another thread I mentioned that when I go home, I get 4 full bars and it nearly doubles this.

and another test,