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Is the iPhone 4S 4G capable?
A friend of mine was looking at the AT&T wireless site and saw that the iPhone 4S is categorized as a 4G phone. To my understanding there was not an iPhone that supports LTE or WIMAX, is this true?
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There is NO 4G iPhone. Apple has not made a single one yet, the 4s is the same across all networks it's available.
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How incredibly convenient that the iPhone 4 was named so, just as 4G was rolling out on major carriers nationwide.
As a salesman in the wireless industry, I cannot tell you how many times I've had to clarify that the iPhone 4 and 4S are most certainly not 4G compatible devices - and I know my experience is not atypical.
I believe Apple took great advantage of the 4G hype, and without delivering an actual 4G product, was able to fool millions of American consumers into believing they had purchased a 4G device simply because of the name and that it had a 4 in it.
Hell, I've actually gotten into relatively heated arguments with customers over this very issue.
Gotta love Apple. They own 15% of the smartphone market, yet pu...
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As a salesman in the wireless industry, I cannot tell you how many times I've had to clarify that the iPhone 4 and 4S are most certainly not 4G compatible devices - and I know my experience is not atypical.
I believe Apple took great advantage of the 4G hype, and without delivering an actual 4G product, was able to fool millions of American consumers into believing they had purchased a 4G device simply because of the name and that it had a 4 in it.
Hell, I've actually gotten into relatively heated arguments with customers over this very issue.
Gotta love Apple. They own 15% of the smartphone market, yet pu...
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Steve Jobes said:
As a salesman in the wireless industry, I cannot tell you how many times I've had to clarify that the iPhone 4 and 4S are most certainly not 4G compatible devices - and I know my experience is not atypical.
I'd imagine AT&T saleman have the same problem with their faulty advertising. I went to the website myself and selected 4G in the filter section and the iPhone 4S is the first phone to come up
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Interesting. I wonder whether that was an earnest mistake or whether AT&T decided to iterate the quasi-false advertising.
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I didn't know that. Even so, HSPA+ isn't really 4G, but I don't even want to get into that argument.
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4S is AT&T's HSPA+ "4G", Apple doesn't advertise the iPhone 4S as 4G, AT&T does. Apple doesn't advertise the iPhone for specific carriers, but just the individual device it's self, their ads would be all over the place with AT&T blah blah 4G, Verizon and Sprint blah blah 3G.
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Sorry for last reply I meant AT&T's Iphone 4s is 4g Capable with HSPA+ Network, no other network has this capability yet, there is no LTE or WiMax Iphone yet.
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The iPhone 4S on the AT&T network is HSDPA+ capable, qualified as a 4G device (but not LTE).
T-Mobile had appealed the definition of 4G to include HSDPA+, once that was OK'd AT&T followed their suit in naming conventions.
T-Mobile had appealed the definition of 4G to include HSDPA+, once that was OK'd AT&T followed their suit in naming conventions.
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It has HSPA+ 14 MBPS capability on the AT&T network, which is classified as '4G.' Which means it's not the same on all the networks, if you live in an area that AT&T calls 4G, you'd probably be going faster on your iPhone than Verizon or Sprint counterparts, which would be going off their CDMA networks.
Does that mean it's '4G?' Eh.
Does that mean it's '4G?' Eh.
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when doing an internet speed test on the 4S compared to my 4, the 4S was getting double the speeds. I was around 2Mbps and the 4S was a little over 4Mbps. Not bad on a 2-3 bar connection.
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OK, The iphone 4s, is not true 4g but it is HSPA+ Capable, same thing T-mobile runs on for it's 4G......
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