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    Verizon 4G LTE Test Market Trials Kick Off in Boston and Seattle This Year

    Verizon Promises More Coverage with 4G Than It Now Provides With 3G

    Giz Explains: Why WiMax and LTE Wireless 4G Data Will Blow Your Mind

    Verizon LTE Wireless Clocking 60Mbps In US Tests, Confirmed to Launch in 2010

    Nokia High Fives Verizon For Picking GSM 4G Technology

    Verizon Switches to GSM's Side For Ultra Highspeed 4G Technology

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    Image of fleebailey33 fleebailey33
    07/27/09

    In reply to Verizon 4G LTE Test Market Trials Kick Off in Boston and Seattle This Year
    i want verizon to switch to GSM, thats what i want for christmas
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    Image of Solertia Solertia
    07/27/09

    In reply to Verizon 4G LTE Test Market Trials Kick Off in Boston and Seattle This Year
    Okay great, the US is finally upgrading service-wise, but our cell phones are still crap. I wish cell phone manufacturers would give the US all the sleek, sexy, hi-res, 5+ mp camera, feature-packed clamshell phones that they make for Japanese carriers :( It just ain't fair
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    07/27/09

    @Solertia: Didn't you hear? Japan's phones are quite the envy they used to be.

    http://gizmodo.com/5318626/japanese-cellphones-as-mysterious-super...+gadgets-2009-edition

    4G is a pretty large step from where they're at now too.
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    Image of LucilleFerret LucilleFerret
    07/27/09

    In reply to Verizon 4G LTE Test Market Trials Kick Off in Boston and Seattle This Year
    personally, i dont think any provider should have exclusivity, i think i should buy my phone from whichever company i wish, and go pick out a service provider to use that phone through.

    you dont buy a car from a gas station, you buy a car and use whatever gasoline you wish
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    Image of FurySamurai72 FurySamurai72
    07/28/09

    @LucilleFerret: Now see, Why cant everyone see it like this? that would be awesome. the only problem with that is the fact that cell phone prices would skyrocket,because service providers are able to subsidise cell prices because of the money they make off the user on the plan. But I mean, why cant all carriers have all phones. why cant we atleast make it so that all the phones can work on all the networks. then if you want to pay the premium on a phone, you can go ahead and use it on whatever provider can give you the best savings/ customer care/ reception
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    Image of Merton Merton
    04/02/09

    In reply to Verizon Promises More Coverage with 4G Than It Now Provides With 3G
    Verizon needs to stop worrying about their coverage, and start worrying about how all of their phones suck.


    Where I am from (Northeast), no other carrier even comes close to Verizon's coverage. For example, my friend with at&t who lives across the street from me gets full signal in his house, and gets no signal at my house (he literally lives across the street). A kid I know with Sprint at my college doesn't get good reception in buildings. T-Mobile doesn't have 3g in our area. Verizon's coverage is far superior in my area.


    At&t has the iPhone, T-Mobile has the G1, Sprint will have the Palm Pre, and Verizon has the... drum roll ... Blackberry Storm.


    Sigh.


    As much as the geek in my wants to switch networks, I can't justify having poorer quality signal for a better phone.

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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    04/02/09

    @Merton: I agree completely.. My wife has ATT and I have VZW (don't ask why), and I mock her poor service constantly. Fortunately she is also afraid of smartphones, so I also have a better device.


    Though that new BB Bold/Pearl hybrid sounds promising (I forget what it's called).

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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    04/02/09

    In reply to Verizon Promises More Coverage with 4G Than It Now Provides With 3G
    Say what you want about Verizon, bu...


    No. Let's just leave it at that.

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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    04/02/09

    In reply to Verizon Promises More Coverage with 4G Than It Now Provides With 3G
    It is my fantasy that my phone can do everything that my lap top can do.
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    04/02/09

    @Software_Goddess: Wow. Your comment aside, the mere fact that your profile picture is a deliberate focus on your titties WREAKS of attention-whoreism. So sad.....How about this....How about, you go do cartwheels down the beach yelling "LOOK AT MEEEEEEE!" and we'll all promise to give you attention, however short lived it may be, mmkkkk?
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    Image of closhedbb closhedbb
    04/02/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: You know what they say about guys who complain about nice cleavage shots...
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    Image of FredicvsMaximvs FredicvsMaximvs
    04/02/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Aaaaand speaking of attention whores: your little outburst is necessary because?


    Software_Goddess has been consistently posting intelligent and witty comments since day 1. If she wants her icon to be a little risque, I think she's allowed.


    Oh, and it's "reeks."

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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    04/02/09

    @Software_Goddess:


    you mean like, run out of battery after 2 hours?

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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    04/02/09

    @closhedbb: @FredicvsMaximvs: @Kaiser 'Wants the Clown Back' Machead: It's not worth arguing over. People who make personal attacks like that are really not the effort. I suppose it is fitting that a man that would verbally attack a woman like that is also wearing a 'wife beater' T-shirt. But thank you all for defending my honor. I am pleased that you all know the brand of humor I bring to the table.
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    04/02/09

    @Software_Goddess: Yes, because the package of "A-shirts" that I buy at Walmart or wherever don't actually say "A-shirts"....No, they say are instead named the colloquial "Wife-Beater". Yea, and I actually took that up to the register and it rang up like that.....Puhleez.....
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/02/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: To be fair, wife beater is the more popular term overall. I don't think I've ever actually called them A-shirts. Even the girl at the Modell's that I go to calls them that. har.
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    Image of sdimacu sdimacu
    04/02/09

    In reply to Verizon Promises More Coverage with 4G Than It Now Provides With 3G
    "A boat is a boat but the mystery box could be anything... it could even be a boat."
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    Image of klaybc klaybc
    04/02/09

    @sdimacu: And you know how much we've wanted one of those.
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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    04/02/09

    Up, up and away in my beautiful, my beautiful motorboooaat!


    Oh wait, I mean, hey Lois: Diarrhea.

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    Image of Chewbenator Chewbenator
    04/02/09

    In reply to Verizon Promises More Coverage with 4G Than It Now Provides With 3G
    I'M ON A BOAT!


    None of this ship nonsense.

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    Image of Takamofo Takamofo
    04/02/09

    @Chewbenator: Well, I'm on a Dolphin. I may be doing flips and shit.
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    Image of alexcheng alexcheng
    04/02/09

    In reply to Verizon Promises More Coverage with 4G Than It Now Provides With 3G
    Wait, this isn't an April Fools joke anymore right? Please say so.
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    Image of Takamofo Takamofo
    04/02/09

    @alexcheng: Look at the time.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    04/02/09

    @alexcheng: have a tissue, weepy.
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    Image of Monty Monty
    03/11/09

    In reply to Giz Explains: Why WiMax and LTE Wireless 4G Data Will Blow Your Mind
    This is a nice writeup Matt, but you missed an extremely important element. The main problem with cellular network broadband is not the max burst speed but latency. So, you can download at a billion megs per second -- that is nice if I am downloading a movie. That that does not help is if I am actually trying to get work done. To truly replace a broadband connection, the latency response rate needs to easily be under 100ms, and under 50ms for many applications. I am not saying whether 4g has that, but I know for a fact that 2.5g and 3g are not really cutting it on latency rates.


    I think the major problem with latency on these networks is the distance the signal has to travel before it hits a cell tower. I hope they have found a solution to this (like sending the packets at faster than the speed of light?), but if they haven't, I still think 4g may only be marginally better than what we have now for people who issue laptops running Citrix / Terminal Services or trying to play video games through one of these connections.

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    Image of mathew mathew
    03/11/09

    In reply to Giz Explains: Why WiMax and LTE Wireless 4G Data Will Blow Your Mind
    It's not the transfer speed that makes mobile browsing suck, though; it's the latency. What are they doing to improve that?
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    Image of Monty Monty
    03/11/09

    @mathew: Damn you, Mathew. I just wrote up all of this nice text about the problem of latency, and you summarized my whole statement in a couple of sentences. I officially do not like you now. Where is the button for 'enemy'? Oh well, I will just click the friend button instead.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/11/09

    In reply to Giz Explains: Why WiMax and LTE Wireless 4G Data Will Blow Your Mind
    So the image is meant to convey that 4G will be scary fast...
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    Image of superbryant superbryant
    03/11/09

    In reply to Giz Explains: Why WiMax and LTE Wireless 4G Data Will Blow Your Mind
    it's pretty sad that I get faster internet on my phone then my parents house lol
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    03/11/09

    @superbryant: Well whose fault is it that they still have netzero?
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    Image of freelunch freelunch
    03/11/09

    In reply to Giz Explains: Why WiMax and LTE Wireless 4G Data Will Blow Your Mind
    why can't we go back to the days of "html" webpages without all the clutter, scripts, and 4MB of images used for formatting?


    Web 1.0b was so much faster.

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    Image of MrBlahBlah MrBlahBlah
    03/11/09

    @freelunch: Yeah, giz's site is pretty but too heavy
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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    03/11/09

    In reply to Giz Explains: Why WiMax and LTE Wireless 4G Data Will Blow Your Mind
    So, on 3G, I will resemble a middle aged woman in the throws of passion, and then with a switch to 4G, I somehow turn into Sloth from the Goonies?


    Is there any option wherein I get to be a tall, kinda gangly guy in my early thirties? Because out of the three options, I want to go with what I know.

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