How fast will the internet be on 4G?

[techs]

I've seen different numbers thrown about. Last night I saw an ad that said 100 times faster than 3G. Since I have seen 3G phones do 1.5Mbit I was pretty shocked.

 

[shocksyde]

Is Xohm/Clear WiMax internet considered 4G? If so, my max has been like 400kb/s.

 

[Crono]

They are probably talking about actual speeds for 3G versus the theoretical limit for 4G.

 

[destrekor]

LTE is supposed to be capable of some amazing feats.

It'll be up to the providers to actually pump out that much throughput. We'll see.

Verizon has been stating they are going to hit, cannot remember the actual specs, but the goal is over 50mbps.

 

[destrekor]

Is Xohm/Clear WiMax internet considered 4G? If so, my max has been like 400kb/s.

Comically enough, Sprint will be ditching their partnership for WiMax.

It's terrible. Has potential but has been implemented terribly.
Their HTC 4g phone will be the only device to use WiMax, which has essentially been 3.5G, theoretically. But yep, hearing it's been no better than 3G for many people.

 

[allthatisman]

I would take regular old 3G... if AT&T could get that right...

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

I'd take just about anything if providers didn't cripple the shit out of our phones and charge $$$ for data plans.

 

[Nik]

http://gizmodo.com/5520164/this-is-apples-next-iphone

 

[IceBergSLiM]

http://gadgetsteria.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ludicrous-speed.png

 

[LittleNemoNES]

::-----------------------this fast-------------------------::

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

What cell phones need is a robust bluetooth-like standard which would allow it to interface with monitors, keyboards and mainstream computers wirelessly. In fact if done right it could be a computer replacement. It's certainly not going to drive a big display at high frame rates and resolutions, but a sufficiently advanced phone could have a full featured OS and all the benefits thereof. Now that would be cool.

 

[Gooberlx2]

What cell phones need is a robust bluetooth-like standard which would allow it to interface with monitors, keyboards and mainstream computers wirelessly. In fact if done right it could be a computer replacement. It's certainly not going to drive a big display at high frame rates and resolutions, but a sufficiently advanced phone could have a full featured OS and all the benefits thereof. Now that would be cool.

Totally agree. WebOS, scaled for a monitor, would work perfectly well for web browsing, email, simple document creation, etc...

I think something like this is an inevitability.

 

[Fox5]

There should be a standard docking solution to hook phones up to keyboards/monitors/tvs/etc, not bluetooth which will never carry video efficiently.

Sprint's current 4g isn't all that fast, latency is better than 3g, actual speeds really aren't though.

Technically, true 4g is a long ways off. According to wikipedia, 4g starts at 100Mbits/s, about 12.5MB/s. Heh, that's LAN speeds from a decade ago. None of the successor technologies are anywhere near that, but I guess marketing can call whatever they want 4g.