According to a report by This Is My Next, AT&T might be trying to get a bit of a ‘competitive advantage‘ over rival carriers with the help of a little kinda-4G-magic on the iPhone 4S.
the carrier is apparently “working with Apple” to change the indicator in the iPhone 4S (which tops out at 14.4Mbps, up from the iPhone 4?s 7.2Mbps) to show “4G” in the status bar as well.
Apple has never get any carrier change anything about the iPhone so AT&T might not be able to do much. Infact, even though the iPhone 4S technically does have HSPA+, Apple doesnt mention it in the specs list, with Apple SVP saying at that the ‘Lets Talk iPhone‘ event that Apple wont be interfering with carriers on what is true 4G and what isnt. AT&T have even put out an infographic on the 4G situation:
[via: ThisIsMyNext, AT&T PR]
AT&T working with Apple to use 4G indicator in iPhone 4S is a post from: ZOMGitsCj.com
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