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you know I think we'll start by defining what the heck a G is yes I suppose it is that but it also refers to the generation of cell phone network technology used by your providers towers and the radio in your mobile device so how many G's you have affects the features speed availability and reliability of your mobile network so 1g or first generation was analog yeah it didn't even support roaming didn't encode voice calls digitally and had no support for mobile Internet which I guess makes sense since that was pretty much sci-fi when 1g was rolled out starting in the early 80s at any rate good riddance to it its successor 2g rocketed us into the digital Fastlane allowing voice calls to be transmitted more efficiently via compression which you can learn more about here by the way and cell phones become smaller thanks to the reduced radio power requirements awesome what we also got with 2g was confusion roaming to different territories was much improved but only if the mobile network you were roaming on used the same type of second-generation network the main two of which being CDMA and GSM and while initial true 2g offerings were too slow for a mobile internet experience beyond text-based emails interim standards like GPRS and edge colloquially referred to as like two and a half G or 2.75 G could deliver data rates as high as well much higher than the minimum 200 kilobits per second transfer speed required to call something free G which is why the line is so blurry because carriers had to try and balance backwards compatibility and future-proof Ness with performance and coverage today not an easy thing to do when you're trying to save all that money and third generation or 3G networks didn't simplify matters at all with technologies like edge being technically allowed to be marketed as 3G thanks to fulfilling the speed requirements even though almost no one did that since it's an upgrade dead end at all competitive with standards like WCDMA who's later upgrades like HSPA and HSPA+ could achieve pretty kick-ass mobile broadband speeds in excess of a hundred megabit per second ok so deep breath did 4G fourth-generation make things simpler the answer is yes and no the term 4G is used pretty fast and loose by cell phone providers for one thing if you are trying to convince you that they have the fastest stuff but it also has a few different real meetings so some companies use 4G to refer to a standard called HSPA+ which if you remember from like 20 seconds ago is actually technically turbocharged 3g which is why many carriers now are differentiating their long term evolution or LTE networks by specifically calling them out as 4G LTE LTE offers enhanced voice quality with HD voice which you can learn more about here and dramatically better downstream data rates for watching YouTube videos and streaming for music services like Spotify we're talking up to 300 megabit per second and on top of that you can see dramatically better upstream performance - which is critical for video calls and even mobile gaming in some cases but then is 4G LTE the end of the huge alphabet soup of different wireless names the answer is no I mean there's a newer version of LTE called LTE advanced that is being marketed as true 4G since LTE wasn't technically 4G then they kind of changed the rules so they could call it that for marketing purposes that so that's on the horizon offering even greater reliability due to its use of several different LTE frequency bands at once which is very important when you're traveling around or in a densely populated city also there's one company in South Korea that has already rolled out what it calls Giga LTE which is today capable of speeds of over one gigabit per second on compatible phones from Samsung and LG absolutely incredible as long as there's a nearby tower so speaking of nearby towers will this kind of performance ever be available in the technologically backward west well perhaps not but at least those of us stuck under the oppressive heels of our local carriers can take comfort knowing that the next generation of South Koreans will be enjoying the latest freemium games in glorious 4k speaking of latest freemium games Avira thought yourself gee if only I had some like graphic design skills and some business savvy and some coding skills I could make a freemium game and like swim in my buckets of money all day well lynda.com is there for you I mean fortunately they have actually lots of different things you can learn word you can do those things I said before you can learn video editing and it's all about watching and learning from top experts who are passionate about teaching the skills that you want whether you're trying to make a freemium game we're just trying to advance your career or improve your hobby or whatever else the case may be they've got thousands of video courses which you can watch on your computer or you can download and watch on your mobile app whether it's iOS or Android and you can create like playlists and you can create notes and refer to them later you can share your playlists the point is a lynda.com membership starts at just $25 per month and if you sign up using our link so that's lynda.com slash tech quickie you can get yourself a free 10-day trial with unlimited access to everything on the site so be like our other viewers and try out Lynda calm and the scripture thanks for watching guys like the video if you liked it dislike it if you thought a sucked leave a comment if you have suggestions for future fast as possible seriously leave a comment if you have suggestions for future ones there are almost never requests how are we supposed to come up with more topics and as always don't forget to subscribe for those more topics that we still haven't determined exactly what they're going to be but there will be them we'll come up with them if you don't help us