The handsets you'll need to enjoy super-fast 4G in the UK

Mobile phone network Everything Everywhere has announced that its 4G network will switch on in 10 cities in the UK at the end of this month.

The new network - a successor to today's 3G network - allows users to download a 4-minute MP3 song in three seconds.

EE, formerly known as Everything Everywhere, will launch its 4G services on October 30 in London, Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds, Sheffield, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester.

The 4G network, which offers speeds up to five times faster than 3G, will be available on the Apple iPhone 5 as well as devices from HTC, Samsung, Nokia and Huawei.

The new network could have a huge effect on how people work - offering office-type web connection speeds from anywhere in 16 cities by the end of the year.


Huawei will also offer dongles for laptops so mobile PC users can enjoy the same blazing speeds - five times faster than current 3G mobiles.

Apple iPhone 5
Apple's new smartphone is the most high-profile of the new 4G handsets - and to enjoy high 4G speeds, users will need to switch to EE. Rival networks such as O2 and Vodafone will not launch until next year.

Other than the fast new connection, the iPhone 5 is a relatively conservative update, with a slightly longer screen, improved processor and improved resolution.

Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820

Nokia’s Windows handsets will offer 4G connections from launch, in glamorous handsets armed with Microsoft’s new Windows Phone operating system, which will allow users to share information easily with Windows 8 PCs.

A Carl Zeiss lens and Nokia’s proven track record in mobile phone cameras should make the Lumia 920 the go-to handset for serious phone photographers, with an 8.7 megapixel camera built to capture images even in low light, a traditional weakness for phone cameras.

The phone’s 1280-by-768 screen is 4.5 inches, and the handset comes armed with a 1.5GHz dual core processor. What’s less likely to appeal, though, is the fact that the Lumia 920 is a Windows phone. While critics have raved about the new tile-style Windows 8 operating system, the public has yet to buy into it, and sales have remained low.

Huawei Ascend P1/E589/E392

Huawei is a world leader in ‘dongles’ for laptops which offer mobile connections for portable PC users - and will offer USB sticks and other PC-friendly 4G kit from launch in the UK, allowing mobile workers to connect wherever they are. The Taiwanese phone maker will also offer its 4.3-inch Ascend P1 smartphone, a fast Android handset which shoots Full HD video.

Samsung Galaxy S3 4G
Samsung’s Galaxy S3 will be one of the first phones to offer 4G in the UK - with a special handset designed to work with the new EE network.

The S3 has become the go-to device for Apple refuseniks - with the highly publicised patent case between the two companies serving to highlight for many that Samsung’s Android handsets are really quite similar to iPhone.


The flagship S3 has become as cultish as its predecessor, the S2, which helped catapult Samsung’s smartphone sales ahead of Apple last year.


HTC One XL

Taiwanese phone maker HTC has seen its signature handsets lose out to hits from Samsung over the past two years, but will be among the first handset makers to offer 4G handsets in the UK, in the form of its One XL.

The 4.7-inch Android One XL is a fearsome handset, particularly for photo fans and gamers. The screen only shows 720p HD, rather than Full HD - but the Tegra 3 chip that powers the One X is built for gaming, and looks superb with titles such as Dead Trigger.



Source Yahoo News