When should I upgrade to 4G?

Chinese mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom have already obtained the long-awaited fourth generation mobile communications license (4G license), slightly surprised that China Mobile, Chinese telecom and Unicom have all obtained td-lte licences, although this is likely to be only the first step in issuing 4G licences, But the move marks the official entry of China's telecommunications industry into the 4G era.

There is no doubt that this is a sign of the moment, since then the three operators can justifiably let go of the 4G construction and related brands, strategies and tariff adjustments, but for each of us, is not immediately able to enjoy the feeling of 4G?

The signal is flying.

Since China Mobile in the 3G era has been unable to withstand the enthusiasm of 4G, so very early began the construction of Td-lte, not only in a number of cities are covered, and in the last 1-2 months of time, coverage is rapidly expanding. In Beijing, for example, the one-month-old coverage was limited to within three rings and individual focus areas, but has now expanded rapidly to parts of the five rings, and if your living area is within this range, you can say that the sky on your head is already 4 G.

The phone's already sold.

With the 4G signal, but also have 4G mobile phone to do. If you have recently walked into the mobile business hall, you should see the marketing scene in full swing, after all, the end of the year is the user's peak, this time if you buy a 4G mobile phone, really can enter the ranks of "tyrants".

In most business hall, you can see 7-8 of the Td-lte mobile phone, including Samsung, Sony, HTC and other big-name manufacturers, while the price is covered by 2000-5000 Yuan High school grade, can be said in the 4G mobile phone purchase, the user's threshold is not too high, Because most 4G phones are no more expensive than 3G.

If it is a fever-level "machine friend", you may feel that the existing 4G phone models are slightly old or configured not to force, it does not matter, a large wave of 4G new machine is running, the lead is the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and Sony Xperia Z1 This kind of hot new products, It is also possible to launch a 4G mobile phone in the future.

Wait, what about moving the 4G version of the iphone? Are you kidding me? Don't worry, it's a little bit complicated, and we'll talk about it alone later on.

4G mobile phone should buy which paragraph?

No 4G devices will certainly not be able to enjoy high-speed mobile network, but the current support Td-lte models can not be counted, to Beijing Mobile as an example, a total of 8 models in the sale, and many of the most famous manufacturers of the latest products, so this batch of the first selling models are still very much to watch.

The most eye-catching model is HTC 8088, that is, HTC One Max 4G version, its 5288 yuan price and the electric business channel completely consistent, and configuration is also 8 models of the most powerful, Gaotong long 8064T The 1.7GHz four core processor with 5.9 inch 1080P Full HD screen is the most popular configuration, the only short plate is the so-called 4 million hyper-pixel camera, need to have a certain psychological ability to bear.

The corresponding large screen mobile phone is Samsung 7108D, that is, the 4G version of Note2, can be said to be an old model, a year ago, the mobile phone is still sold 4999 yuan, compared to HTC 8088来 said we do not recommend, if really want to start Samsung 4G Phone please look forward to the 4G version of the Note 3.

And the price sold to 4500 yuan this level and the same as the big screen mobile phone ZTE U9815, this is also a "renovation", it is released at the beginning of the ZTE Grand Memo 4G version, the mobile phone has a variety of formats and configuration, and the most similar TD version in Jingdong Price only 2519 yuan, Apparently it wasn't enough to hang up the 4G title. If the price of 4500 yuan analysis, ZTE U9815 configuration is a bit outdated.

In addition to the high-end models of more than 4000 yuan, in the mid-end product coverage, people feel inexplicable uniform, in addition to Sony m35t, Hisense X6T, Huawei G716, cool pie 87,363 products sold at 2999, plus the price of 2299 of the day language Touch1, Four product configuration is very similar, all using 5-5.5 inch 720P screen, processor specifications belong to the medium, the main camera is 80.013 billion pixels between, in this configuration, this 4 price positioning some expensive.

And the only international brand Sony m35t, configuration in fact, with the above 4 domestic brands, but only slightly smaller screen size, and added a bright color transparent belt unique design, it is the price of a more eye-catching product, and fair price acceptable.

So it seems that 8 of mobile phones did not cover the entry level products, that is, the lack of 2000 yuan below the low-end models, this aspect needs to be enriched. In addition, the pricing of domestic manufacturers is generally high, the important reason for this should be to offset quite a lot of calls through the operator's contract policy, and if so, the products that are most worth buying are HTC 8088 and Sony m35t, because their prices are almost free of water and are the newer models of their own.

What about the iphone 5s/5c?

The complexity of the IPhone 5s/5c, how a "disorderly" word, if you want to use 4G, it is really not easy to see at this moment.

For mainland licensed, currently on sale are Unicom and telecom 3G version, that is, umts/hspa+ (a1528/a1526) and CDMA EVDO (a1533/a1532) format, these are incompatible td-lte specifications, and the current 4G completely missed.

The only hope for the moment is the Td-lte iphone 5s/5c (a1530/a1529), which is available in Hong Kong/Singapore and other cities such as Guangzhou and Shenzhen, which can be successfully used in 4G, but not yet in Beijing.

We have also purchased the same card stickers for testing, but can only search the Chinese mobile 3G signal, 4 G is simply not reliable. Because at the end of the carrier base station, the iphone 5s/5c device is to match and optimize, and this work is not every city deployed to complete, if you have to use this method of 4G, then can only wait. This is why China Mobile has not officially sold the iphone 5s/5c reason, the two licensed specifications and the Hong Kong/Singapore version of the full agreement, are a1530/a1529, if it is really like outside rumors of the 18th this month officially on sale, then you "card stickers Party" You should also be able to search for the 4G signal by then.

Wait, where's the package?

With the 4G mobile phone, plus China Mobile 4G signal coverage, is not the "general exultation rush" it? The good news is, you just need to change a 4G SIM card in the business Hall, without changing the number can enter the 4G era; the bad news is, the traffic is really slow to use, "tyrants" is not so good when the various types of flow monitoring software to go up !

So the most realistic meaning of 4G licensing, is the operator can be justified by the introduction of various 4G packages, as previously in the "trial commercial" stage, so operators still follow the structure of the 3G package and tariffs, although all operators have added some additional traffic, but after all, did not get the official "birthright", So users can not completely put their hearts in the belly. And this official licensing, operators to do the first thing, is likely to be in charge of "to everyone a statement", we will wait for each section of the GB-level luxury flow package out.

Which operator should I choose?

It may be too early to talk about the issue, although all three have obtained td-lte licences, but they are clearly not at a pace. China Mobile has been eager to sell a small range of 4G mobile phones, only after a large number of commercial post number, and the other two due to the 3G of live, so not busy into 4G, so a short period of time we can not be in China Unicom and Chinese telecom there to obtain 4G services.

And in the future, even if the three operators in the construction of Td-lte, will only have network coverage and small differences in tariffs, the key choice is to see the issuance of Fdd-lte license, which is China Unicom and the Chinese telecom really concerned about the place. However, the specific situation also depends on the frequency band Fdd-lte division, whether it can be with the current international mainstream standards.

So overall, if you want to use 4G now, then only the China Mobile one option, this situation and 4 years ago 3G Licensing when the situation is exactly the same.

is 4 G my dish?

Everything is done, you may calmly ask me, 4G what is the use of it? I will tell you that only one cigarette work can be able to drop 2GB traffic, let the friends of the eye beads are staring out?

Joking is a joke, we think that the following categories of people may need 4G.

1, often need high-speed mobile network business people. Imagine that your notebook has hundreds of thousands of megabytes of important information to be sent to customers, even if the public WiFi speed is also slow as a snail, this time 4G network can be a few minutes to help you send out, what more than this to power? By the way, money is not a thing.

2, online video enthusiasts. Go home after the WiFi download offline movies, the next day on the road to see slowly, this really can not be called "online video." 4G ERA can make HD online video "0 delay", with the local video almost no difference, the neighbors do not have to worry about my nightly "rub net".

3, micro-video publishers. Whether micro-blog or micro-letter, the social networking site photos and GIF animation can not meet the hearts of everyone gossip, the future of the release of Micro-video released from the media, is the most eye-catching eyeball, a big help "sea-day rendezvous," the fans are ready to stir.

4, network disk addicts. Now the network disk is not a few GB are embarrassed to greet people, but very few people to fill it, because regardless of upload or download is quite time-consuming. But in front of 4G, these capacity is small case, can really put the cloud storage as a mobile phone expansion space to use, without the struggle to buy 16GB or 32GB of mobile phone.

In fact, everyone will slowly turn into 4G users, because the network, mobile phone and package will slowly "4G", unless you do not use the mobile phone online, otherwise 4G is not the only option to think.

Overall, 4G licensing is just the starting gun and accelerator, can let the user earlier, better use 4G service, but for network coverage, tariff standards, terminal equipment and the corresponding services, in the last month or two should have a turbulent general change, if you are really interested in 4G, The most handy thing right now is to go to the business Hall for a 4G SIM card, and then wait for the right one 4G phone to appear.