Coworker friend of mine has the (new) Droid Charge (4G/LTE) and we ran some speed comparisons against my Droid X (3G).

My 3G speeds are routinely around 1.5Mbps and my wifi speeds are usually around 11Mbps.

Running a side-by-side comparison at the office, pretty deep inside a building utilizing repeaters, he is seeing 11Mbps via LTE,. That is some serious speed on a little handheld device. I'm impressed. In a market where 4G specs haven't been defined yet, I was assuming he'd be seeing in the neighborhood of 2-3Mbps.

[This message has been edited by Rainman (edited 05-17-2011).]

It is impressive. LTE is a bit faster than WiMax, but still DAMN impressive. If my roommate wasn't such a little ***** about having cable I would just use my phone for the interwebs.

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Verizon tested 4G in my area with no network traffic (before they announced LTE service), they maxed out over 30Mbps in the middle of the night.

Nobody is going to see that, but it is pretty cool.

So are the 4g phones gonna suck at first like my early 3g phone?Battery life and such?
I'm waiting for the droid bionic to come out.

quote Originally posted by Scottzilla79: So are the 4g phones gonna suck at first like my early 3g phone?Battery life and such? I'm waiting for the droid bionic to come out.

My EVO kicks ass and it was the first 4G phone in the US.

quote Originally posted by Rainman: Coworker friend of mine has the (new) Droid Charge (4G/LTE) and we ran some speed comparisons against my Droid X (3G). My 3G speeds are routinely around 1.5Mbps and my wifi speeds are usually around 11Mbps. Running a side-by-side comparison at the office, pretty deep inside a building utilizing repeaters, he is seeing 11Mbps via LTE,. That is some serious speed on a little handheld device. I'm impressed. In a market where 4G specs haven't been defined yet, I was assuming he'd be seeing in the neighborhood of 2-3Mbps.

Being a ' little hand held device' really isn't the stumbling block at this point in technology, its the infrastructure.

Too bad increased speed only means people hit their cap faster Id rather have slower speeds so that i cant ever exceed my limit ( well i don't have one personally, but eventually my plan will be killed off i'm sure )