What will 4G have over 3G?

[mammadon]

4G is coming out this year, but what are the benefits of it? Is it being marketed well enough?

Look at it this way. If Intel released a quintuple core processor, you'd naturally think this allows for better processing power. But how exactly? How would this lead to better performance or better applications?

The iPhone 5 will most likely be 4G, to take advantage of the launch this year. but so what? what benefits will having a 4G phone bring?

 

[miles01110]

4G is coming out this year, but what are the benefits of it?

Higher speed, theoretically larger capacity per "cell", longer range...

Is it being marketed well enough?

Too well, by some companies.

Look at it this way. If Intel released a quintuple core processor, you'd naturally think this allows for better processing power. But how exactly? How would this lead to better performance or better applications?

It's not a comparable situation. For mobile applications the bottleneck is almost always the data throughput, not the processor.

 

[dmr727]

Roughly 1G.

 

[BigQid]

The better question is how much many times faster will it be? Then how much will it cost?

 

[jav6454]

4G is coming out this year, but what are the benefits of it? Is it being marketed well enough?

Look at it this way. If Intel released a quintuple core processor, you'd naturally think this allows for better processing power. But how exactly? How would this lead to better performance or better applications?

The iPhone 5 will most likely be 4G, to take advantage of the launch this year. but so what? what benefits will having a 4G phone bring?

Faster Internet connection.

 

[mammadon]

So essentially 4G will mean that one can have Internet speeds similar to a wired or wi-fi desktop connection? so better downloading, and better viewing of Youtube?

 

[jav6454]

So essentially 4G will mean that one can have Internet speeds similar to a wired or wi-fi desktop connection? so better downloading, and better viewing of Youtube?

Faster even. Currently, you'd have to pay over $40 to get a nice 22Mb/s line through cable.

But with 4G, you'd have access to a minimum of 22Mb/s real transfer speeds. The theoretical start at 42.2Mb/s and go all the way to 110Mb/s for 4G.