• skuzz
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    5 months ago

    Fun fact. The Thunderbolt had two modem chips, a 3G modem and a 4G modem. Normally phones have one modem. Also the 4G modem was indeed super inefficient and ate electricity for breakfast. It was necessary at the time as Verizon hadn’t fully integrated CDMA and LTE yet.

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      5 months ago

      Oh that’s right - it was right on the cusp of 4g. Thanks for that.

      Wow, that’s a pretty hamfisted approach, but they did the best with what they had I guess.