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Originally Posted by chardog
4g is not needed. if speed is such a concern, jump on wifi. Sure you wont have wifi on the go, but how often do you NEED it? 3/5's of my work is from remote locations. it's not hard finding a play with wifi to use my connections. Even 3g tether is enough to remote into other systems to do your work. I guess if you're doing a lot of mobile downloads, then you'll need 4g, but who the heck does that?
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I agree...I posted in the Epic forum (my wife has the Epic) that I was less than impressed with 4G. For what people normally do with a phone, 4G is next to useless. 4G sucks the battery dry, so the phone keeps 4G turned off as much as possible. By the time you factor in the latency to turn on 4G to download a mobile website or sync your mail, you might as well not even have it. Even tethering isn't faster unless you are streaming video or doing BitTorrent, which we don't do...so while I don't doubt that 4G is wonderful for those of you who:
1.) Are streaming Internet TV/Netflix to your phone all day long
2.) Are doing constant torrents
3.) Have a small, portable nuclear power plant
4.) Have it constantly plugged in to the wall (really mobile, lol)
But for the average user, its current incarnation is more of a gimmick than a necessity, more or less like iPhone people bragging about having over 100k apps when they use about 10 regularly. An app/feature unused is a useless app/feature for the person in question.
As for those saying the extra $10 a month is "no big deal", well, I'm glad that you're either:
a.) made out of money and are completely innured to high monthly charges
b.) getting fully reimbursed or pre-paid by your company for your cell service
c.) don't remember the days when cell plans were only $20 a month (agreed, text and Internet were not available back then, but still...you're talking about 3.5x the price)
As for myself, I don't want to pay for a feature that is ostensibly useless to me...and because Sprint didn't have enough chutzpah to negotiate a better deal with Clearwire. Since most people keep phones about a year, I would have rather Sprint charge an extra $50 for the handset to offset the cost rather than nickel-and-dime me for "crab and shrimp at the buffet" when I'm allergic to shellfish.
I'm not trying to start a flame war or disrespect those of you who are okay with paying the extra money, I'm just trying to explain why some of us have a real problem with the fee and why we don't think it's a problem if the 7 Pro doesn't have 4G.