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LTE roll out
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arijaycomet
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That would be SO NICE! ... a good OS update + LTE would make the 17" screen so much more enjoyable than it is right now.
sfriedrich
Member
Certainly an upgrade to LTE will be needed in the years to come as the carriers very much want to shut down 3G.
dirkhh
Middle-aged Member
They do? They still haven't shut down EDGE in the vast majority of the market. Only about 50% of the phones in use can use LTE data and about 30% of the phones can use LTE voice. The shutdown of 3G is at least a decade away if not longer.
Oh, you mean we might finally see a *gasp* hardware upgrade included with annual service?!?
ra-san
Member
This is me talking about something I don't know as fact, firsthand, so grain of salt and all that. But my understanding from late last year is that the board they were using for 3G (4G if you're wearing your fancy marketing hat) was end of life'd mid last year, if not earlier. The replacement was LTE compatible. I don't know the pricing details but assumption was (you know what they say about assume and all) it was a direct replacement, similar/less cost. That doesn't mean they couldn't keep getting the old part for a while, but it was reasonable to me to conjecture that at some point in the later part of last year that they switched to the new radio parts. That doesn't necessarily mean that they had antenna modules that would support LTE, even if the radio module itself did. The other thing I understood from quite some time ago is that it was a module that should be able to be replaced independently of the rest of the system.
So I wouldn't really be that surprised if Nov/Dec 2014 deliveries, or early 2015 deliveries were LTE ready, soon as they have a deal done to turn them on. Wouldn't surprise me either for there to be a service center upgrade to LTE enable any S not already able - though not sure they would go to the effort to do that right now. Frankly at some point, if they were up for such a thing at all, it'd make more sense to update the whole Tegra system to whatever they come up with for the Model X era of systems. That and better optimized software are really needed to go hand in hand with data speed anyway.
Anyway, just fun conjecture for any of it at this point.
jvonbokel
John VonBokel
I don't understand... with voice requesting of individual songs, doesn't Slacker already provide this functionality in a better way?
Nevermind that... How is going to a video site to find a song easier than finding it in an app dedicated to music or pulling from USB or phone? Oddest request for HTML5 I've seen so far.
Telenor in Norway have said 3G will be shutdown in 2020. (Norwegian source: 4G - Telenor skal kvitte seg med 3G - tu.no/it) The article says that 2G will live on, presumably to support voice and sms I guess.
jvonbokel
John VonBokel
Maybe he meant "for free", as in after the included Slacker subscription runs out.
Seeing rumors of LTE popping up out there. Anyone else see something new on their cell signal indicator?
It looks like I have LTE enabled
Ditto. Hopefully I have LTE hardware so it can be enabled in an update. The 3G speed isn't a big deal, the laggy browser bugs me more.
travwill
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I think we'll figure it out soon, but this could be the first delivery showing it with latest software. So could be a mid-May sometime build date forward that has LTE enabled, but only with latest software. It is always frustrating we know though to be that batch right before something new comes out; e.g. auto pilot, 60 to 70 battery, etc. Ug!
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