Comments on: iFixit Teardown Reveals 7-Band LTE Chip Inside Nexus 4

By: Copy and Paste

Copy and Paste — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:48:00 +0000

zepfloyd said: “The other facts haven’t changed, it’s still missing the an amplifier and antenna.”

I’m just copying and pasting from the article so here it is:

“I tore down the Nexus 4 to ascertain whether PAs were present that could
work with LTE, and saw indeed that at least bands 4, 2, and 1 did have
Avago power amplifiers (A5704, A5702, and ACPM–7251) which noted support for LTE.”

and

“The Nexus 4 does include Rx diversity for every band, and thus it’s
entirely possible on Band 4 that users will see the full 2×2 MIMO rates.”

By: James

James — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:26:00 +0000

Haha, nice the OP edited his comment to remove his never and impossible comment.

By: Gus

Gus — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 19:32:00 +0000

It’s the internet. It’s normal for people to just repeat what they read. Be it right or wrong.

By: zepfloyd

zepfloyd — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 17:25:00 +0000

They had already said a week ago it would be theoretically possible in Band 4 but no one believed that the software was there to support it, as it turns out OOPS, they didn’t fully strip it from the Optimus G board. There’s a complex reason to why Band 4 is the only one that does. The other facts haven’t changed, it’s still missing the an amplifier and antenna. You can also be assured LG is going to nuke this ASAP, unless they want to be fined out the ying yang. It’s a major violation of the regulatory process in the US and CA as it was not declared on initial submission.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 17:05:00 +0000

Apparently it does work: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6474/nexus-4-includes-support-for-lte-on-band-4-aws

Now, you can copy and paste this new info.

By: MasonMathews

MasonMathews — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 05:59:00 +0000

I guess we’ll just have to cross our fingers!

By: Lucas Bueno

Lucas Bueno — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 05:57:00 +0000

That’s what I was thinking too. Its a long shot… The Xoom was advertised to receive it soon after launch. I believe that’s why they had to do that. On the other hand… I could see Google still show some amazing love to their N4 customers and put the missing hardware on for the Google network

By: Stylinred

Stylinred — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:30:00 +0000

you would think that Google would have just included LTE then

By: JoshGroff

JoshGroff — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:22:00 +0000

Hmm, yeah I’ll check it out.

By: JDub

JDub — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:03:00 +0000

Oops. Thought I clicked on your comment about it not having CDMA.

By: JDub

JDub — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:02:00 +0000

It has one. Go to the ifixit link and it explains what each chip is.

By: Droidzilla

Droidzilla — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:22:00 +0000

Big McLargehuge

By: ERIC REED

ERIC REED — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:21:00 +0000

As a Buckeye fan we get to stay home this year and may go undefeated…hope they are enjoying those tattoos!!!

By: JoshGroff

JoshGroff — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:59:00 +0000

I thought the unboxing video covered pretty much everything.

By: matt

matt — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:43:00 +0000

Off topic, but when are we going to see a full N10 review on DroidLife?