Hey Seattle! $1000 Sez T-Mo Galaxy S 4G can Beat your iPhone!
Seattle T-Mobile Stores Issue $1000 Speed Challenge: Galaxy S 4G Faster than iPhone
This weekend, Seattle T-Mobile stores are challenging iPhone owners to take on their Samsung Galaxy S 4G in a download speed test. If your iPhone, on either Verizon or AT&T, can beat the Galaxy S 4G in 2 out of 3 trials, you win $1000. The contest takes place this Friday, the 29th, through Sunday May 1st. Check the poster above for the ten participating stores, and you can see a larger version of that poster right here.
This is T-Mobile’s way of letting the world, or at least Greater Seattle, know that their Galaxy S successor is packing an ST-Ericsson Thor M5730 modem, capable of a blazing 21 Mbps download connection speed on their HSPA+ network. And it is about time that Magenta got some phones that could show just how fast that network is.
Unless You’re Planning a Massive DDoS on T-Mo, How Can Any iPhone Win?
AT&T’s iPhone is limited to 7.2 Mbps download speed, while Phone Scoop’s test of the Galaxy S 4G showed peak download speeds above 7 Mbps, so that looks like a pretty safe bet for T-Mo. Verizon’s iPhone uses their 3G network, so don’t expect Big Red to boast about their iPhone’s data rate either. Until we see an iPhone on LTE, T-Mobile shouldn’t have too much to worry about.
I do wonder why T-Mobile decided to issue this challenge in Microsoft’s backyard instead of Apple’s, though. Let us know your thoughts on T-Mo’s new approach to network chest-pounding, or on the Samsung Galaxy S 4G.
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Ummm. Let's see this on their 3G network, not on their 4G. That's like saying "I'm faster than a kid with a broken leg in a 100m dash!". Maybe a 3G v. 3G would be a fairer race…just saying.
Well, to be completely fair, was HSPA+ really 4G before the US carriers leaned on the ITU to redefine it as "whatever is faster than 3G and on the way to implementing real 4G"? But yes, you definitely have a point that this isn't a fair contest. Another site suggested setting up a few modems outside the T-Mo stores and saturating the nearest cell tower by downloading torrents.