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Old 25-01-2013, 20:26
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My mates android phone gets HSDPA and my iphone 4S only goes to 3G, so my question is, if we were to do a speed test when his phone is displaying HSDPA, does that mean his download/upload speeds WILL be faster, or is it possible that i could still get better results than him even if my phone isnt HSDPA compatible?

We are both on different networks(me three and hes on tmobile/tesco)

P.s would have done a speed test but he didnt have speedtest installed at the time
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Old 25-01-2013, 20:30
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The 4S can support HSDPA+ up to 14.4Mbps IIRC. iPhones don't display the 3G technology they're using at the time, it'll be 3G, E or the circle for GPRS. Tesco runs on the O2 network BTW. Three support HSDPA so give a speedtest a go and see how fast you can go!
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Old 25-01-2013, 20:31
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Your 4s should do hsdpa which incidentally is a 3G technology
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Old 25-01-2013, 20:43
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Ahh ok, i totally forgot that the iphone can do HSDPA but doesnt actually display it. Ive never looked into it as my internet is always pretty fast.

We will do a speedtest next week and see whos the king!

Thanks chaps
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Old 25-01-2013, 21:57
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Ahh ok, i totally forgot that the iphone can do HSDPA but doesnt actually display it. Ive never looked into it as my internet is always pretty fast.

We will do a speedtest next week and see whos the king!

Thanks chaps
As long as its fast it doesn't really matter. You can dial *3001#12345#* to view detailed information, but I don't actually understand any of it.
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Old 26-01-2013, 00:21
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If your seeing full speed on the iPhone 4S it should be close to 10mbps, usually 9.something.
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