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In other news, 5G users can now burn through their data cap in under 10 seconds!
by commiebob 13y ago
In other news, 5G users can now burn through their data cap in under 10 seconds!
- FooBarWidget 13y agoNot to mention, drain their battery at 10 times the speed.
- timmm 13y agoThey said that about 4G and about higher screen resolutions, and about higher display dimensions. They will innovate.
- criley 13y agoWill they? My 3100mAh Galaxy Note II has 4G, and the battery life is noticeably worse than my old 1200mAh iPhone 3G. Battery tech has long been one of the biggest limiting factors in mobile tech, and I'm not quite sure that advances in energy density are moving as quickly as everything else. Which means I think that batteries are slowly lasting less long as energy usage of new features consistently outstrips improvements in the tech. Remember when phones used to last a week or a month? Now we're lucky to get a day, day and a half.
- FooBarWidget 13y agoThe "innovation" so far consists of making phones thicker so that they can house a bigger battery.
- Retric 13y agoData cap's are indirectly related to transmission speeds so you may always be able to burn though the data cap in under 10 seconds, but competition will still slowly raise the cap as technology improves. IMO, the current 2+GB caps are not that bad, raise that to 20GB and you can watch a fair amount of hulu for example (~50+hours) without a problem.
- dagw 13y agocompetition will still slowly raise the cap as technology improves. Has not been my experience at all here in Sweden. Data caps have been lowered across the board over the past year as data speeds and availability has improved.
- freehunter 13y agoThat's been my experience in the US as well. On EDGE/EVDO or even early days of 3G, unlimited plans were extremely common and fairly cheap. When 3G became more established and 4G/LTE started rolling out, 2GB is now the normal with massive increases in prices as you add more ($10/GB is common).
- msh 13y agoStrange, in Denmark they have been raised. You can get up to 1 TB mobile 4g lte plans for 70 usd (including 25% vat - http://www.3.dk/Privat/Mobilt-bredband/Abonnement/MB-FRI/ http://www.3.dk/Privat/Mobilt-bredband/Abonnement/MB-FRI/).
- OGinparadise 13y agoBrilliantly put. I see some tech bloggers go through "specs" of speed, only to forget the data cap. If money is not an issue, then maybe, but most people usage over the cap will truly bite.