The gadget world is afloat with news that is delightful at first look: LG’s Nexus 4 comes with support for the popular 4G LTE network.
The LG Nexus 4 is already available in the UK, the US, France, Spain and Germany. It will arrive in other countries as this month nears its end. Many specialists consider it a handset which will rival many of today’s offerings..
Among its generous specs, though, there is no working filter or any signal amplifier. Even so, developers recently announced that this smartphone can work for an LTE network without issues, but your Nexus 4G needs to be an LTE able to work on the band 4 model; and it must be featured on Rogers and Telus, which are two of the most important carriers in Canada.
The decision to leave support for multiple LTE bands on this device is the following: Google knows that if it did that and if several LTE bands would support the phone, the apocalypse would come both in Europe and in the US. Worldwide, to be precise. And that is something no one wants to happen. So far, AT&T are the only ones with a license that will offer access for band 4 somewhere in the future in the US.
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DroidGator.com is a popular gadget site. According to them, the Nexus 4 has support band 4. How: with the help of the phone’s power amplifier and transceiver. They announced that the tests they performed on the Nexus 4 showed the fact that it offers support for band 4 LTE. Unfortunately, band 1 did not show the same result.
Once the LG Nexus 4 offers a stable LTE connection it doesn’t mean that the phone is going to deliver only greatness. The best solution would be to see a carrier which comes with superior features. Because only that way will the handset actually deliver superb performance overall. Google will need to do something to shut down the option to change networks for stuff to work.
T-Mobile may very well be the best option, because they want to launch LTE on band 4 as soon as possible. But once this happens, FCC would have to approve it. The only approval the phone has is for HSPA+ networks. And that might prove tricky, but not impossible. When the Nexus 4 was first tested to see which connection it preferred to work with, it was quickly reported that the handset refused to work with Verizon’s LTE and AT&T’s LTE networks alike. But it looks like all hope is not lost yet, what with T-Mobile coming to a very possible rescue at some point.
