It seems all sorts of news sites have been posting that video of the Galaxy Nexus getting average LTE speeds on only 2 bars of signal. Every Verizon LTE phone so far has not indicated LTE strength visually (instead displaying the 1X voice signal strength), and only a few have had any sort of developer menu that displayed numerically the LTE radio signal strength.
Did I miss where it was mentioned that this has changed with the Galaxy Nexus on Verizon? It seems to me like all of these news sites are going crazy over something that very well could be no big deal. For instance, while sitting in the hallway of one of the buildings at my university, I only have 1 bar of signal strength on my Thunderbolt. The building right next door has an LTE antenna on its roof, but no 1X voice antenna. I'm often able to pull 14 Mbps+ down and 8+ up at that location, though if I showed a screenshot or a video of my phone doing so to someone, it would be quite deceptive, since my LTE signal in reality is much stronger than the 1 bar [of voice] indicated on my phone. (And likewise, you can have 4 bars of voice signal, but be on the edge of LTE coverage, and people would probably laugh if they saw LTE speedtests failing to complete.)
I would like to think that Verizon is starting to change their approach here. It's awfully deceiving, and I'm guessing it's nothing more than an attempt to make people think more towers around them have LTE than really do.
So, yeah, anyone know if things changed here, or if these various tech blogs/sites don't understand this?
Did I miss where it was mentioned that this has changed with the Galaxy Nexus on Verizon? It seems to me like all of these news sites are going crazy over something that very well could be no big deal. For instance, while sitting in the hallway of one of the buildings at my university, I only have 1 bar of signal strength on my Thunderbolt. The building right next door has an LTE antenna on its roof, but no 1X voice antenna. I'm often able to pull 14 Mbps+ down and 8+ up at that location, though if I showed a screenshot or a video of my phone doing so to someone, it would be quite deceptive, since my LTE signal in reality is much stronger than the 1 bar [of voice] indicated on my phone. (And likewise, you can have 4 bars of voice signal, but be on the edge of LTE coverage, and people would probably laugh if they saw LTE speedtests failing to complete.)
I would like to think that Verizon is starting to change their approach here. It's awfully deceiving, and I'm guessing it's nothing more than an attempt to make people think more towers around them have LTE than really do.
So, yeah, anyone know if things changed here, or if these various tech blogs/sites don't understand this?