Get ready for 4G in the UK: Four devices you can buy right now
Summary: After a long wait, 4G is finally around the corner in the UK — but it's hard to find handsets that use the UK's particular LTE spectrum. Here's a bunch you can buy to be ready for T-Mobile and Orange's 1800MHz switch-on.
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Now that Everything Everywhere has been given the go-ahead to start offering 4G in the UK after 11 September, it's a good time to look at which devices will work with the service from launch.
Undoubtedly, the operator will be lining up devices to lure customers into signing up for 4G once the service goes live on its Orange and T-Mobile networks. At this point, though, the company isn't saying what those handsets and tablets will be.
Still, some people will need to buy a new handset before the LTE service arrives and won't want to have to get another in quick succession. So if you're happy to go pay-as-you-go, what devices are around now that will work on Everything Everywhere's 4G?
Most countries and devices use a different band of spectrum for 4G to the 1800MHz being used by Everything Everywhere — Apple's new iPad, for example, doesn't work on it right now. But there are a few handsets knocking around that support 4G in the UK band. And while they aren't generally offered on sale in Blighty, that doesn't mean you can't get them. Read on to see four devices that will do the trick.
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What's the point of paying a premiums .....
So buy a 4G device, that you can't use in 4G .... and have the pleasure of getting a crappy battery life ... just for the bragging rights???
Where does your "about a year" claim come from?
"After a long wait, 4G is finally around the corner in the UK..."
And the very first line of the article says:
"Now that Everything Everywhere has been given the go-ahead to start offering 4G in the UK after 11 September..."
So it looks like 4G will be available in the UK in a matter of weeks. What do you reckon the odds are that Mr Woods is resident in the UK too?
TV interference?.