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Nexus 4 Includes Support for LTE on Band 4

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Re: Nexus 4 Includes Support for LTE on Band 4

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Post by yohui »

taligent wrote: post #68
danudey wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Nexus 4 and the iPhone 5 have similar battery life if you disable LTE on the iPhone. The faster you can finish loading your data, the sooner you can turn off the LTE chip and start saving power again.

Well this is just rubbish. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6440/google-nexus-4-review/2 The iPhone 5 has nearly DOUBLE the battery life of the Nexus 4 for typical usage. If you disable LTE it will be even better.

Doesn't that review affirm the core of danudey's statement?

> "As always we test across multiple air interfaces (3G, 4G LTE, WiFi), but due to the increased network load we actually find that on a given process technology we see an increase in battery life on faster network connections. The why is quite simple to understand: the faster a page is able to fully render, the quicker all components can drive down to their idle power states."

AnandTech's 3G benchmark scores for the iPhone 5 and Nexus 4 are 4.55 and 4.15, respectively. It's only when the iPhone 5 runs on 4G LTE that it scores 8.19.

And while I appreciate AnandTech's quantitative reports, I'm not sure you can call this "typical usage", unless you typically spend all day refreshing web pages.

Re: Nexus 4 Includes Support for LTE on Band 4

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Post by ansible »

trimbo wrote: post #61
mahesh_rm wrote: post #31

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Who [or what] decides whether scarcity is true or false?

The way I've looked at it is "everyone who wants one seems to be able to get one in a reasonable timeframe." Apple is a master of this. You might not get one on day one, but you'll get yours on day five. That's enough time to inspire people to line up to get theirs on day one. The Wii was the same way. It was "hard to get" for two Christmases. How is that at all possible? A company misjudges their demand that badly f…

The Wii was the same way. It was "hard to get" for two Christmases. How is that at all possible?

People mess up forecasting all the time. I've been a personal witness to several instances of this. It usually results in someone getting fired.

Overproduction can be a terrible burden on any company. It is often better to take the low forecast to reduce risk.

Re: Nexus 4 Includes Support for LTE on Band 4

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Post by pook1e »

taligent wrote: post #68
danudey wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Nexus 4 and the iPhone 5 have similar battery life if you disable LTE on the iPhone. The faster you can finish loading your data, the sooner you can turn off the LTE chip and start saving power again.

Well this is just rubbish. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6440/google-nexus-4-review/2 The iPhone 5 has nearly DOUBLE the battery life of the Nexus 4 for typical usage. If you disable LTE it will be even better.

No. THIS is rubbish. Did you even read the article you linked, or did you just scroll through the pretty pictures?

> typical usage

Are you serious? This pretty much affirms my point that you didn't read the article, unless you consider constantly refreshing web pages at a fixed interval with fixed brightness 'typical usage'.

> If you disable LTE it will be even better.

Apparently you didn't look too closely at the pictures, either. The article contains an entire paragraph (that I'm not going to repeat) that explains why LTE provides better battery life in this particular benchmark. In fact, if you look at the exact same chart you're referencing the iPhone 5 is at 4.55 with LTE disabled, a mere 0.40 more than the Nexus 4.

Your blatant Apple propaganda is getting pretty old.

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