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"why it doesn't come with 4G/LTE?"

Because that would eat your 100MB data plan in 42 seconds. Not too mention it would probably increase the price. Nobody actually needs 4G yet, we just like it in our fancy things. It has no place in budget (attainable) hardware.

"And 100MB a month? Seriously?"

Because that is what Verizon, a company that makes its money off selling wireless data, is willing to give away for free (or a subsidized price paid by google). I'm sure they will not hesitate to sell you more if you are in the minority who need to watch 3Mb videos on the bus...




"Nobody actually needs 4G yet, we just like it in our fancy things."

Nobody who doesn't need 15 ms latency (low jitter [low latency stddev]) vs HSDPA 90 ms+ (huge jitter, latency up to 1000 ms+). LTE truly rocks and can deliver true low latency 100/10 Mbit/s wirelessly. I got 99.5 Mbps result with speedtest.net.


Cr-48 owner here. You will go through the first 100 MB in a week, maybe you make it almost to the end of the month. By month 3, you want that 1 gb plan to autorenew so you don't have to think about it.


have you had a problem where the wifi disconnects ifnyou move the cr 48 at all? :-(




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