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Band 4 is 1700Mhz EE UK uses LTE on the 1800Mhz Here's a list of the LTE networking bands http://niviuk.free.fr/lte_band.php (nice graphics below)
Thanks - appreciated :)
Yup, unfortunately EE is Band 3.
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks - appreciated :)
Yup, unfortunately EE is Band 3.
Personally, I don't find the lack of LTE to be a problem at all.
Three's DC-HSDPA network has been excellent with my Nexus 4. I've done a few speed tests and I regularly get between 10-18Mbps down and 2-3Mbps up. It feels really snappy and, at £9.60 a month for a rolling 30 day sim only contract with unlimited data, it's cheap as hell.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
> However, I'm quite curious about the battery life impact. So far the N4 isn't a champion in this category. Adding LTE.. Just get a bigger battery. I got a 3900 mAh extended battery for my Verizon LTE Galaxy Nexus from Mugen Power[0]. Now my phone can run for 2.5 days without any problems. After a week, I didn't even notice the added thickness. 0: http://www.mugen-power-batteries.com/mugen-power-3900mah-ext...
The Nexus 4 has a sealed battery. Upgrading will be a bit tougher.
It's sealed, but screws on the bottom make it easy to replace.
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I just read somewhere that to condition the battery of a phone you should do the usual full discharge/charge cycle every once in a while but also try charging the device via a computer's USB port (the slow way) instead of using the wall plug adapter.
Yeah... you'll want to ignore some of that. http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_li... There really isn't any memory in them. There is value to slow charging, but even more important is temperature and avoiding keeping them near full charge for an extended period of time.
>There is value to slow charging
Only to a point. The provided charger tends to be well within this limit (no benefit to using USB).
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup, unfortunately EE is Band 3.
Personally, I don't find the lack of LTE to be a problem at all. Three's DC-HSDPA network has been excellent with my Nexus 4. I've done a few speed tests and I regularly get between 10-18Mbps down and 2-3Mbps up. It feels really snappy and, at £9.60 a month for a rolling 30 day sim only contract with unlimited data, it's cheap as hell.
>£9.60 a month for a rolling 30 day sim only contract with unlimited data
how? link/info please?
AFAIK the best they offered was £6.90/mo base + £3/mo for unlimited data. And that was 12month contract where you had to call up to add on the data. ?
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#46Does that mean I could use the Nexus 4 on Verizon?
Even if it mystically had band 13 LTE and CDMA support hiding somewhere, good luck getting Verizon to activate it.
The LTE radio is a ~~7-band radio~~. Edit: I'm finding a bit of contradicting info here, let me look harder.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6474/nexus-4-includes-support-...
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I think you just answered the question yourself.
The extra profit from pre-emptive upgrades is probably cancelled out by the increased cost of warranty repairs. Repairs get more complicated, more costly, and more consumers end up having their devices swapped out where previously individual parts could have been replaced. I think it's more so a side-effect of the relentless push for smaller, thinner devices. That aligns with the priorities of most consumers. The ave…
>The extra profit from pre-emptive upgrades is probably cancelled out by the increased cost of warranty repairs.
This is exactly the calculation apple has done; they now deem RAM to be reliable enough to not have a significant impact on warranty claim expenses. This is why they did not solder the (much less mature tech) SSD.
>I think it's more so a side-effect of the relentless push for smaller, thinner devices.
I think this is naive, personally. The extra 3d space of a RAM module on a laptop is minute. The size is a nice bonus. Also i'd bet a very significant chunk of macbook Pro owners upgraded their RAM.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally, I don't find the lack of LTE to be a problem at all. Three's DC-HSDPA network has been excellent with my Nexus 4. I've done a few speed tests and I regularly get between 10-18Mbps down and 2-3Mbps up. It feels really snappy and, at £9.60 a month for a rolling 30 day sim only contract with unlimited data, it's cheap as hell.
>£9.60 a month for a rolling 30 day sim only contract with unlimited data how? link/info please? AFAIK the best they offered was £6.90/mo base + £3/mo for unlimited data. And that was 12month contract where you had to call up to add on the data. ?
Ah, apologies. For some reason my brain isn't working too well tonight.
I had it in my head that my contract was costing me £9.60 per month while it's actually costing me £12.90 per month. Doh.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Nexus 4 has a sealed battery. Upgrading will be a bit tougher.
It's sealed, but screws on the bottom make it easy to replace.
But not easily replace with a higher capacity battery, given how various elements of the antenna are built into the back surface.
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#50I adjusted the settings on my Nexus 4 (T-Mobile in the SF Bay Area). I saw a marginal increase in my bandwidth (going from preferred WCDMA to LTE/GSM/CDMA/(PRE) in the menu entries. It is no way a scientific test but the results are a consistent 2 MBps increase which is not enough to claim that LTE works but is a nice to have. I will do more research and post it here.