Sunday, October 10, 2010

What is 4g? What the heck it LTE? Why oh why should I care?

Okay, quick little primer on the whole 4G vs. LTE vs. common sense.

Does anyone out there remember a little green and black screen and any geek/nerd around you talking about the mobile internet? That was likely a ridiculous, almost 'proof of concept' version of the internet in a phone. That was 1G, or the first generation, and remember folks, geeks don't generally reproduce, so...

The next attempt was in color! Woo hoo! Now we were getting somewhere! You could actually pull up a movie time! This was proudly thought of as 2G or second generation, and the established geeks like to improve the breed without any regard to opportunity or regard to the needs of others...so...

Now it got interesting...3G was here and the mobile internet exploded into the mass media, and the world ate it up. It is now the fastest adopted consumer item, the cellular phone, in the history of history. Yes, his-story, as mostly male geeks are still impressed with this idea...okay, now I am tired so, 3G=high bandwidth, or the ability to display content like cranky old analysts random wisdo# or what we call wisdom, much more quickly...this actually became useful to the majority of laptop and mobile users.

Now 4G is here, and the battle royal is raging in the geeks, the jocks and the business warriors minds...what will get the email and attachments faster and more securely so I can go home and see my kids that the Geeks and Freaks who thought 2G was pretty cool, now do not have. And there are a few converted Geeks in the group as well. This 4G switch is the end of the mobile access to the internet being anything less than universal among new phone and data users. What is next? Keep reading.

Samsung review tomorrow or Tuesday. Will be meditative and authoritative reading.

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