Nokia 920 - 4G EE ?

[Glaucus]

I watch youtube all the time and there's zero buffering anyway and zero loading times.
No that's an expensive deal, rose tinted glasses to justify cost.

Rather than 52 a month for no data.
You can get phone for 400 + 12months of £12 for unlimited data, unlimited tethering. No contract, no tie ins and actually use some data, rather than hitting the limits. Again if you don't hit your limits, you have no need for 4g, that will change when 4g penetrates more of the uk, than 3G but that's not the case ATM.

 

[Christo]

I watch youtube all the time and there's zero buffering anyway and zero loading times.
No that's an expensive deal, rose tinted glasses to justify cost.

Rather than 52 a month for no data.
You can get phone for 400 + 12months of £12 for unlimited data, unlimited tethering. No contract, no tie ins and actually use some data, rather than hitting the limits. Again if you don't hit your limits, you have no need for 4g, that will change when 4g penetrates more of the uk, than 3G but that's not the case ATM.

Rose tinted!?

£52 x 12 = £624
Phone 'value' £420 (below retail rate).
'cost' = £200

And thats for 4G as well (unlimited texts, calls, 3Gb data and access to BT wifi). I was paying £40 a month on 3G, it really is a decent deal.

Your deal = £544 for 12 months
'cost' = £144

 

[Glaucus]

No. You were getting ripped off on 3G.
So cheap, no contract, no tie ins and more importantly unlimited data, so you no I can watch netflix etc and not get charged what is it £5 per GB.

 

[Christo]

No. You were getting ripped off on 3G.

Thats from your 3G deal above.

edit - I had probably edited the above post after you responded, sorry.

 

[Glaucus]

Thats from your 3G deal above.

I was paying £40 a month for 3G was not from my deal.

 

[Nymins]

With DC-HSDPA coming, I don't really see much need for 4G yet. Far too expensive for what it is currently.

 

[Mike B]

You don't need faster times for youtube, youtube etc can easily load on 3G, you are obviously a light user have zero need for such speeds and are paying through the nose for it. A better sure, but 60ms faster doesn't mean I'm waiting mages.
This isn't in a few years time, this is now. And no you don't have better signal. 4g signal is pretty much non existent, it covers. Such a. Small area of the uk.
Yes 4g is good, EE and its deployment and price right now, is not good.
I can use over 3GB is one night.

I'd really like to know how you use 3gb of mobile data in one night.

I don't know what you download but 4g to me isn't about data its about time processing the data.

I need a file from a home server to work, I can transfer it quickly, I wan't a few documents from the cloud I don't have to wait minutes it takes seconds. HQ youtube streaming doesn't buffer. Streaming service doesn't buffer.

Just because you don't see a use in the speed doesn't mean everyone else doesn't think the opposite, time critical things it's a godsend and for other things its less waiting than I have to for the same amount of data.

 

[Glaucus]

I'd really like to know how you use 3gb of mobile data in one night.

Some work shifts I am stuck in one place and can't do anything, fire up netflix or other stremaing services, i use a few like filmon on ipad/phone depends if I knew what job I'm doing. Depending on what qaulity you select upto 1gb an hour. Even low qaulity your talking 140mb per 30mins. 3 or so of those types of shifts a month and data usage is high. Then I also stay in hotels, most of them have free wifi but if not, then all evening spent browsing, streaming etc as well.
I would massively benefit from 4g and even I think it's a waste of time and rip off ATM. Once the others enter and the 4g network expands, then it'll be time to get it.

The other week I had a 12hour on site shift like that. I watched 4 films, several tv programs as well as browsing, youtube etc. even lowest qaulity netflix you're looking around 450mb per film.
Now obviously I'm an extremely heavy user. But if you would benefit from 4g then you should be watching films or doing other such high data activity and it is easy for even a normal user to blow through 3Gb in under a month. If you are not using that data, you have to ask yourself why you are paying excessive amounts for 4g, yes things like ping are lower, but can you really not wait an extra 60ms or so.

 

[weringo]

I'm on 4G with a Note 2, got a good deal on a 12 month contract which I believe has since been changed.

4G is fantastic, makes a big difference when browsing and it's great being able to stream YouTube on a moving train with very few drops in signal, something I could never do previously.

 

[shuzzbutt]

I am on a note 2 for 'free' with the basic 1gb data plan as when I had 3g unlimited data before, I barely used 5-700mb a month.

My usage has not changed even a bit however I can say that my experience has improved- Croydon's 4g signal has widened and now wherever I am I get a slick fast experience weather that's Facebook/twitter/YouTube.

I know in theory you can do all those things on 3g, however not in my experience. I hated the load times of webpages/buffering on YouTube/loading tweets with pics even when I supposedly had full signal, now, even with 3 bars of 4g it whizzes along.

For me, that speed has truly made use of my smartphones media on the move capabilities. I now hate using my phone when it has a 3g signal to the point I just don't bother till I have a 4g signal.

This all reminds me very much of the weather an 'ssd is worth it' debate where folk were arguing over speed/snappiness versus storage! I preferred the speed/snappiness

Yes it could be cheaper and better value but for me its worth it for the experience otherwise I would not have signed up.

 

[yimpster]

thanks again for valuable feedback really appreciated. been using the 920 on 3g for a couple of days and it seems more than adequate for my needs in fact load times are significantly better than on my old Omnia WP7. I have excellent signal where I work and live so don't really have any issues with 3G performance.