34% of iPhone owners are convinced that they have 4G

Quite popular misconception is user confidence that their device has a certain non-obvious feature, which, in reality, this model does not. Often this is happening and what sellers are not properly explain the functional phone, and even deliberately misleading customers. This applies especially to users of the most functional devices, which are often sold on the basis of the most "cool" model and the actual use is limited to calls and correspondence. Prime candidates for being an over-priced are BlackBerry smartphones and iPhone, as well as numerous devices with Android on board. Representatives of the research agency Retrevo analyzed the U.S. market and have become convinced that it is. According to them, most of the confusion in the minds of users of iPhone. According to the survey, 34% of the owners of vehicles from Apple for some reason, believe that they have phone support fourth-generation network. Most probably confusing what the market there is a model iPhone, 4, and many tend to believe that four does not mean the fourth model, and support for fourth generation mobile networks. Does not contribute to the understanding and the accuracy of the definition of 4G given by the operators. While the "real" fourth-generation standards - WiMAX and LTE do correspond to 4G, and there is 3.5G, which is sometimes marketed as "fourth generation". As a result, not only the owners are confused about the iPhone 4. 24% of the owners of BlackBerry also assured that their unit is compatible with 4G, despite the fact that among the models from RIM there were none. Somewhat more complicated situation with the Android-smartphone. Some of these devices actually support WiMAX and LTE network, but there is much less than confident that the support of 4G is present. These users 29%, despite the fact that smart phones with Android and 4G market is relatively small, since the sale began not so long ago.