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Originally Posted by jbcohen
I understand that the new fire HDs have 4g in them, and some of the new kindles are 3g. I do understand that 3g refers to third generation, like my blackberry is 3g, and 4g refers to fourth generation. So what is the difference?
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There's a lot of confusion with 4G because the name has been misused by carriers to sell their 3.5G packages (also known as HSDPA+). The max you can get on HSDPA+ is, theoretically, 84Mb/s, but current implementations top out at 42Mb/s.
4G should be used exclusively for LTE, which is the new standard and provides increased speeds over 3G. You can get speeds in excess of 100Mb/s on LTE, again, theoretically.