verizon 4g phones

[deadeye]

Well after having the original Droid for well over a year I bit the bullet and got a thunderbolt today. (Tax return present to myself)

So far I am really impressed. I really liked my original Droid but this thing knocks that right out of the water for performance. The sense stuff is a little annoying but I suppose it will be fine once I get used to it. The internet and operation speed compared to the original Droid is pretty amazing.

We will see what the 4g coverage is like but so far so good. It's definitely nice having the extra speed without having to pay extra for it. I almost feel like I'm not getting ripped off by the company. Almost.

[LMITOUT]

Is that a brother to the Sprint EVO?

[deadeye]

Yeah I would say they could be brothers. It's supposedly has a newer processor and more RAM but Idk if that's just bunk that they were feeding me at the store. It pretty much looks identical to the EVO though.

[pureinsanity]

Yeah I would say they could be brothers. It's supposedly has a newer processor and more RAM but Idk if that's just bunk that they were feeding me at the store. It pretty much looks identical to the EVO though.

All they feed you at the store is [PoorWordUsage] Just like your 4G coverage I will say at least you are on a solid network

[DTro]

Are you saying 4G doesn't exist?

Kind of like all those Pre-N routers everyone used to use? Because the technology wasn't certified yet does that mean that Pre-N was not real?

Maybe those N routers are really only 56K.

[pureinsanity]

Are you saying 4G doesn't exist?

Kind of like all those Pre-N routers everyone used to use? Because the technology wasn't certified yet does that mean that Pre-N was not real?

Maybe those N routers are really only 56K.

In technical terms, nope 4G isn't here, yet...

just like when I said the river floods every year, you said that's not the case, because it isn't officially recorded information and low lying areas are not considered a flood....

[SanJoaquin]

Lol,bodyslam! Ouch

[pureinsanity]

Ahh, here it is Dtro.

Quote:

Nick, I'm sure they are using technical terms as far as gauge height. It DOES NOT flood every year. In Jordan I think the flood stage is 25'. The time I've lived here (about 10 years) its only got above that maybe half the years or 50% (maybe not even that high).

Is 24' flooding? Sure I suppose, but not officially.

So is 4G here, Sure, But not Technically.

[DTro]

Find me the technical term for 4G.

[DTro]

Ok I found this:

Pre-4G technologies such as mobile WiMAX and first-release 3G Long term evolution (LTE) have been on the market since 2006[2] and 2009[3][4][5] respectively, and are often branded as 4G. The current versions of these technologies did not fulfill the original ITU-R requirements of data rates approximately up to 1 Gbit/s for 4G systems. Marketing materials use 4G as a description for Mobile-WiMAX and LTE in their current forms.

So is LTE and WiMax faster than 3G? I would say it probably is...

[pureinsanity]

Dan and I had this thread convo a while back. I can go search the threads unless it got deleted. Yes 4G is being marketed and used, but it is NOT up to the technical standards.

I never said the "4G" they are using isn't faster, I said the real 4G isn't even here yet.

[DTro]

Congrats on the new Thunderbolt LTE phone and thanks for the review deadeye.

While Verizon might tell you it's 4G, I guess technically that is not true. I'm sure it is much faster than previous technology such as EDGE or 3G, but sadly it might not meet the requirements of 4G. You might want to return it because ulitmately it will probably be too slow for you. Best wait until all phones are 4G compliant. By then they might be branding phones at 5G though.

"How many bloody G's are there". LOL

[deadeye]

Oh its way faster than 3g. That much I do know.

I don't care what they call it 3g 3.5g 4g LTE Wimax pistachio pudding whatever. It's better than what I had and it has so far worked everywhere I have been which is better than my buddy's EVO did. Plus I don't have to pay an extra 10$ a month.

So...its a win for me

Oh ya and thank you dtro. It's been fun so far. I don't really have a lot of exciting stuff ie xbox Wii big tv ect so this is my main form of electronic entertainment. It is really nice to be sitting on the bank of the river listening to Pandora and looking at this site.

[pureinsanity]

when 4G comes out 5G will be on the market.

and I do not care what they say the river floods every year

[PierBridge]

Did you pre-order it through the internet or did a verizon store have it in stock?

Congrats!

[deadeye]

I walked into the store by ridgedale and got it after work. I guess it was a hot item though.

[upnorth]

We went out and got new phones and the AT&T folks where trying to push the 4 HTC. Cripes we just 3G up here a couple months ago, probably going to be 2 or 3 years til we see 4G.

[headcheese]

did a few download speed tests on my new thunderbolt and im getting 20-25 mbps! just as fast as my comcast cable.

blows 3g out of the water!

[LMITOUT]

Is your wi-fi turned on?

[headcheese]

Is your wi-fi turned on?

nope. not a fluke either. tested it multiple times.

i wonder if the speeds will last as more people get on the network? But right now its blazing.

[Nick Kuhn]

Is your wi-fi turned on?

I would assume so seeing as though I believe he exceeded the current incantation of LTEs theoretical limit.

Edit: Maybe I was wrong, but apparently it depends heavily on the channels available to it at the time. Most people won't get anything near that fast, particularly when the network gets loaded.

[headcheese]

fastest i got today was 38 but its been averaging around 15.

no bull.

theres a good review video on engadget if anyones interested

[deadeye]

I got the speedtest.net app and its showing download at 19.63 and upload at 26.99. I did see it hit much higher during the test but that's the numbers it landed at.

[LMITOUT]

Nice!

[deadeye]

To put that in perspective I just did the same test on my original droid (I gave it to my mom as its a huge upgrade for her) and its at .64 mbps download and at .57 upload.

Idk what "G" you classify 19mbps I got on the new phone but I call it pretty freakin sweet compared to the old one.