We’ve all seen the announcements where AT&T claimed the Inspire would be on of the first 4G (HSPA+) devices coming this year. Well, apparently they put the 4G name on it but forgot the network to go with it.
According to customers, the new Inspire 4G doesn’t even feature full compatibility with the “4G” HSPA+ AT&T network. While they told everyone at CES it will in fact be a 4G device, this has been proven wrong. Several users noticed instantly that while download speeds were on par with other HSDPA-enabled AT&T smartphones, upload speeds seemed a bit slow.
This could be because of two different reasons: HTC’s Inspire 4G either doesn’t feature compatibility with AT&T’s HSUPA service, something they forgot to check, or the carrier has disabled it in the phone’s firmware. If disabled, doesn’t this defeat the purpose of even purchasing a 4G device? Let us know what you think!
UPDATE: Looks like AT&T just didn’t let customers know this service is turned off by default. The phones seem to need a ‘rooting’ before you can unlock the faster 4G speeds. Is that what customers want? I don’t think so. Let us know what you think.
Source: BGR
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Wasnt AT&T the one that also took their 3G network and just relabeled it “4G”???
They said their network is fast enough already and went ahead and rebranded it… Sprint used to say their network was faster than 3G, that they actually considered it 3.5G as oposed to 3G… SPRINT actually went and got a 4G network and released phones for it instead of saying that because the network was faster than 3G, it should be called 4G..
SHAME ON YOU AT&T…
So… has anyone actually been able to experience AT&T’s “4G” network? I have friends with AT&T but the network speed on their phones does not equal the EVO 4G speeds… hmmm… what is that about?
LMAO.. 3.5G, ehh… that’d be called Rev. B if anything and its called 3G+..
and you cant fault AT&T and TMO for saying “hey wait, our speeds are as good or better(YMMV) as Sprint who has 4G, let call ours 4G too”.. I mean who the hell wouldNT say that also?
**If a car that goes over 150/160 mph is considered a sport/racing/high performance car, than ANY car covering or beating those speeds should be in the same category.. Regardless of design or craftmanship** -obviously this is a disgusting way of logic.. but it seems to be on the plane of how Carriers were thinking when they came up with all this 4G nonsense
according to the sources, looks like that’s about all they did and are claiming 4G!?!!?
I’ve heard that At&t and T mobile is going to have the largest and fastest 4G network. I’ve experienced 4G on my EVO, and its blazing fast, I’m wondering what else can be faster than this… as long as the largest part goes, every network says that. I know Verizon is good as being the largest network but their prices compare to services I get from Sprint is way too high. We all know that we don’t use ALL of those services a lot in daily bases, so who cares lol
I will stick to Sprint, they are the best!!!
Another reason to LOL at ATT’s pathetic network.
At&t didn’t really have a choice in rebranding their network as 4G. T-Mobile did it first and At&t is using the same technology and offers similar speeds, so they were kind of forced into the marketing game. HSPA+ is recognized as a 4G technology and can get really high “theoretical” speeds. Real world will always be different.
As far as a speed comparison, the last time I had an Evo and my Nexus One side-by-side was in Naperville, IL, which has Sprint 4G. I did a speed test on both, about 5 times. At&t’s 3/4G network was faster than Sprint’s 4G network 4 out of the 5 times. Sometimes it was minimal, like 250kbps faster, and sometimes it was like .5-1 Mbps faster.
It all depends on the backhaul too. Where I live, we have a Verizon backbone and my At&t 3/4G speeds are only 1-2 Mbps. If I go further east to At&t country, i’ll easily get faster than that.
some nerve. they dont even have a full 3G network and now they are calling it 4G, not to mention they also have the highest prices of any carrier which only white collar business professionals can afford.
seriously, VZW prices are WAY higher than AT&T when you compare them apples to apples
in any sprint store they have a chart that compares and at$t was the highest on that chart
“apparently they put the 4G name on it but forgot the network to go with it.” – LOL!!…that’s worse than a parent putting their baby carriage on top of their car and driving off before putting the baby inside the car.
I did a test too, and Sprint’s 4G is faster than At&t’s 3/4G… A customer was here at my shop with a Nexus one (I liked the phone), we both did a test.. Results were the following…
First time Test
At&t HSDPA : 2.5Mbps down and 0.8Mbps up
Sprint 4G : 4.2Mbps down and 1.2Mbps up
Second time Test
At&t HSDPA : 2.9Mbps down and 1.4Mbps up
Sprint 4G : 4.9Mbps down and 1.5Mbps up
Even though EVO had 2 signals from sprint 4G, It was faster that Nexus one from At&t HSDPA.
As I’ve said before, all 4g phones are bogus,,, att doesn’t even have 4g, why put a phone with 4g label… TMOBILE is the same thing, this a monopoly people
Well it depends on how often do you use 4G, and also if you have know the difference between the 3G, HSDPA and 4G.
If you’re tethering wirelessly using 4G, you’ve got a blazing fast WiFi router in your pocket at all times to use it for your laptop or iPad.
VERIZON is the same way, BOGUZ
3G first before optional 4g
Damn People on a GSM network 4G is a software upgrade that is all! techinally whenAT&T finish their LTE network (if the USAF does not have all LTE networks shut down) It will technically be 5G the G is for Generation of the network people. When people start building RFC standards around a network monickerbase it is just stupid!
They did not Say you would get 4G everywhere, they said the phone was 4G compatiable, IF you did our Home work when buying the Phone as I did, then I knew I would only get 4g in certain locations!
So if you are in one of the locations that say it has 4G and you Don’t then you have a reason to complain, if not then you have no reason to complain.
i was only getting 1.5 down today w/ 4g on my evo, while a classmate with an inspire was getting 2.7 down…
i was a bit irked…
Att&t is such a piece of crap. I couldn’t do anything but laugh the other day when I saw their 4g commercial. Why not work on getting at least 2g coverage to more people before you even think about 4g? They’re dying a slow miserable death….
(Bring it, trolls)
“Why not work on getting at least 2g coverage to more people before you even think about 4g?” LMFAO!!! Best quote of the day!!! 2 freakin funny man.
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