‘Confusion and skepticism’ could turn users away from 4G, study says

By on Jul 13, 2011 at 7:00 PM
mobile July 13, 2011

According to a new report from Retrevo, consumer “confusion and skepticism” could impede the adoption of 4G devices. We’re not surprised. The labeling on 4G devices is apparently so confusing that 34% of iPhone 4 owners and 24% of BlackBerry users actually believe they have a 4G-capable device, but neither RIM nor Apple currently offer a phone capable of running on any 4G networks. 30% of those polled said data plans currently cost too much for them to upgrade to 4G, and 19% said they didn’t know enough about the new technology. The study also found that less than 25% of the respondents had plans to jump to using a new 4G device or network in the near future. Retrevo’s report came from an online survey of more than 1,000 people across the United States.

[Via The Loop]

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  • Anonymous

    this confirms that iPhone users are idiots

  • KCRic

    LMAO!! 34% of you iDiots think your dumbphone is 4G? 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FCATSDDPJWT6ODZZNKHMWLLEYY Barry Morton

    I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, LiveCent.com

  • http://twitter.com/jackrazzlin Jack Azlin

    What’s confusing about faster speeds?

    I didn’t get confused when I upgraded to ADSL2+, if anything I was the opposite because everything loaded quicker – and if I was puzzled about a subject I could google it 10 times faster. Consumers are idiots.

  • http://profiles.google.com/eliran.azoulay Eliran Azoulay

    4G – Peak data rates of up to approximately 100 Mbit/s for high mobility such as mobile access and up to approximately 1 Gbit/s for low mobility such as nomadic/local wireless access, according to the ITU requirements. – wiki That is all.

  • Yourmom

    Once again, we see how wetodddid iPhone users are…

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