Even though I live in a 4G area, I leave my phone mainly in CDMA only mode most of the time because of battery life and network issues.
I am just wondering if others do the same.
I am just wondering if others do the same.
if you live in a 4g area why would you turn it off? why own a 4g phone?
if you don't live in a 4g area, why buy a 4g phone?
if you live in a 4g area why would you turn it off? why own a 4g phone?
if you don't live in a 4g area, why buy a 4g phone?
...because the phone, independent of 4G, was the best one available.
Without 4G, you still have the best 3G phone that Verizon carries.
Your logic doesn't make any sense. I don't use face unlock. Why did I buy a phone with face unlock? I don't use a lot of things on my phone. You don't buy the phone because you need 100% of the features on it - you buy it because it matches all, or most of, the features that you do want. So if you wanted a great 3G phone with a pure Google experience - which phone, pray tell, did you expect them to buy?
In all fairness, while I agree with you to an extent, face unlock and 4G are two incredibly different features. 4G is what your phone runs on when downloading data any time you use your phone. It is much faster than 3G and affects probably 75% or more of what people do on their phones. Face unlock is an added gimmick that hardly affects real-world use of your phone at all. If you removed the face unlock feature, 98% of people wouldn't even know it was gone. If you removed 4G, 98% of people would be rioting.
That is not to say everyone must use 4G even if they can, I understand that speed isn't as important as battery life to some people; however, to say 4G serves a similar purpose to all features is not true.
i leave it on most of the time, only turn it off if i know i am going to be driving through areas with no 4g, or my battery starts to get low. leaving it off for an entire day, i will have 20-25% more battery with the same use as i would have had leaving it on for that amount of time. i hope they can solve the LTE battery drain issue soon, it seems to be a problem on every device so far.
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