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[RUMOR] Galaxy Nexus for AT&T in February

Thankfully, I'm not an AT&T Customer, but I would have to say the lack of LTE in it, while everything else they're promoting with advertising is pushing it, would be a huge deal for potential buyers. How can you have the latest and greatest, without well, the latest and greatest? It'd be like a 150hp 4-Cylinder Lamborghini. Just doesn't make sense..
 
While the LTE technology is very good, AT&T and Verizon's LTE are two very different things. Verizon's LTE rollout is extremely fast, the fastest next gen data network rollout in history in fact. AT&T's rollout is going extremely slow. The Galaxy Nexus will probably be quite obsolete by the time AT&T's LTE network covers a decent percentage of the country. Heck, the Galaxy Nexus will probably be obsolete before AT&T's 3G network covers most of the country :P
 
even if this does hit AT&T, I'd still rather have it on Big Red due to their Massive LTE network in comparison to Ma Bell's.

It would almost be depressing to have this on AT&T. It would be like owning a Ferrari but 90% of the time, it won't let you go above 50mph.
 
Jedi54 said:
even if this does hit AT&T, I'd still rather have it on Big Red due to their Massive LTE network in comparison to Ma Bell's.

It would almost be depressing to have this on AT&T. It would be like owning a Ferrari but 90% of the time, it won't let you go above 50mph.
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Except you do realize that HSPA+ is in most cases as fast as Verizon's LTE. On Verizon LTE is a big deal because their 3G CDMA is much slower than AT&T's improved 3G HSPA+. AT&T is moving to LTE more as a support cost cutting move as well as LTE becoming the industry standard.
 
BLD said:
Except you do realize that HSPA+ is in most cases as fast as Verizon's LTE. On Verizon LTE is a big deal because their 3G CDMA is much slower than AT&T's improved 3G HSPA+. AT&T is moving to LTE more as a support cost cutting move as well as LTE becoming the industry standard.
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Didn't know thier hspa+ could hit 20+ lol. last i heard wasnt near that so no its not close. P.S. pings as well.
 
elitegamer said:
Didn't know thier hspa+ could hit 20+ lol. last i heard wasnt near that so no its not close. P.S. pings as well.
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HSPA+ can do 42 max and LTE can do 50 max. Nobody will ever see either of those though. Real world on both is pretty much in the 5-20 range.

EDIT: Can't find it now but I believe Verizon has even said to expect average speeds in the 5-10 range on LTE once everyone is converted from CDMA to LTE and all that load is on the LTE network. It's kind of like your cable modem. If the guy down the street is hammering P2P and downloading everything in site then your going to download slower but if his parents ground him and take away his internet you'll see faster speeds.
 
Still hoping to see this hit AT&T soon, I have been thinking about adding my sister-in-law to my wife and I's plan and I would give her my wife's Galaxy S II and get my wife the Galaxy Nexus, if it was the 32gb version, then my wife would get mine and I would take the 32gb version. I use more memory than her. ;-)
 
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