“Apple will talk about its iPhone next Tuesday during a special event at its Cupertino headquarters, so I’ve gathered all the most recent additional claims for the device in this post,” Jonny Evans reports for Computerworld. “Expect the fifth-generation to be faster, sleeker and better-connected than before, though there’s still some anxious reports concerning whether an iPhone 5, an iPhone 4S, or both, will debut.”
“The most credible fresh claim this morning is that the iPhone will support HSPA+,” Evans reports. “HSPA+ offers download speeds of up to 21Mbps, up from the 7.2Mbps HSDPA/HSUPA 3G radio inside of the iPhone 4. That’s a faster mobile standard than the existing iPhone 4, but isn’t the LTE support some have been hoping for.”
“Disappointed?” Evans asks. “Don’t be. I think it is important to accept that many of the world’s largest carriers don’t yet offer LTE support, so the move to instead favor HSPA+ will make the device immediately faster and capable of being deployed on networks everywhere from the get-go.”
“The new iPhone will be the smartest thing. Those voice controls I’ve been talking about are about to radically change the way you interact with your phone,” Evans writes. “You will be able to ask your phone to find places, give you directions, take and send dictated messages, change playlists and more. This is useful for everybody, and betrays a commitment to accessibility which Google’s Android OS completely lacks.”
Read more in the full article here.
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HSPA is 4G anyway, thanks to the marketing move by the industry a few months back to revise what 4G means.
OK, 3rd party add ons included make:
medical scanners attach (blood pressure, pulse,
gps positioning and mapping,
almost universal translator,
visual views of most of the earth (google earth)
visual video conferencing around the earth,
What, no anti gravity, no tele-porter…. what kind of a phone is this anyway???
Actually with the above, it almost is a Star Trek Pad/communicator… 🙂
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I, for one, can’t wait to hear idiots arguing with their new iPhones on the bus on the way to work, in the early hours of the morning. 🙁 ugh
hilarious! 🙂
“I ain’t you’re holla back girl!”
Whatever, the only thing I care about is improved call quality. F— I still use AT&T.
If Apple gets this voice recognition right, it will be a huge game changer. Imagine a phone that while you are in your car driving that speaks incoming text messages to you over bluetooth and then allows you to speak back your reply without having to touch or look at the phone.
I know. I agree. Something ironic about it though.
I have a hard enough time staying out of trouble with auto-correct-type. How much more trouble will auto-correct-voice be? 🙂
Standard issue prudent engineering that results in better performance and good battery life.
The douchebags who claim Android has LTE will only talk about devices that are unusable because the battery gets drained too fast… then when Apple ads LTE that doesn’t drain the battery they’ll claim “All the android devices have had this for years”.
They’re completely dishonest.
you hit the nail on the head.
hear hear
i hope it works with t-mobile.