{"id":2576,"date":"2011-07-06T21:10:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T11:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2011-07-06T21:10:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T11:10:23","slug":"what-does-3g-mean-in-windows-phone-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/what-does-3g-mean-in-windows-phone-7\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does 3G+ Mean in Windows Phone 7?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick tip for tonight.<\/p>\n<p>If you use Windows Phone 7 you might notice on the lock screen that you have a &#8220;3G+&#8221; symbol from time to time and wondered what it meant. You might be forgiven for thinking that you&#8217;ve unlocked some sort of turbo charged connectivity but there is quite a simple explanation for it.<\/p>\n<p>All it means is that you have an HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) connection which provides faster download and upload speeds compared to a standard 3G connection. This should not be confused with HSPA+ that offers speeds beyond 14.4Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>However, it makes me wonder how such connectivity will be displayed in Windows Phone 7 moving forward. Android makes clear distinction between 3G, HSPA (H), and HSPA (H+) on its display on the Samsung Galaxy S II whilst Apple lumps any kind of 3G connectivity under 3G.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick tip for tonight. If you use Windows Phone 7 you might notice on the lock screen that you have a &#8220;3G+&#8221; symbol from time to time and wondered what it meant. You might be forgiven for thinking that you&#8217;ve unlocked some sort of turbo charged connectivity but there is quite a simple &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/what-does-3g-mean-in-windows-phone-7\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,19,78,667,100,152,133,151,18,674,79],"tags":[126,10,1564,632,974,882,2337],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android-operating-systems-technology","category-apple-technology","category-connectivity","category-ios","category-iphone-apple-technology-technology","category-microsoft-operating-systems-technology","category-mobile","category-operating-systems","category-technology","category-windows-phone-7","category-wireless","tag-3g","tag-apple","tag-galaxy-s-ii","tag-hspa","tag-omnia-7","tag-samsung","tag-windows-phone-7","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}