Duringย a conference at Macworld Asia, the exclusive and only carrier that have the iPhone in China, China Unicom,ย confirmedย that the iPhone 5 will support 4Gย HSPA+ which offers aย theoretical data speed of 21 Mbps. That’s three times faster than theย current dataย speed on iPhone 3G, 3GS and iPhone 4 that only offer 7.2Mbps.
Many of us were expecting 4G LTE which offers a ridiculous data speed ofย 150 Mbps, but that is unlikely to happen. Apple is not using 4G LTE anytime soon because the iPhone would have to be thicker and 4G LTE consumes to too much battery. Andย althoughย 4G LTE is fast, is notย availableย in many cities yet. In the US, AT&T and T-Mobile haveย HSPA+ networks, covering more customers than LTE.
(Via MacRumors)