Tmobile says 8x is NOT LTE capable

[MangoGuy]

I been told yesterday by three complaints in fact the 8x isn't lte, the sales guy just told me this to make a sale, really annoyed !!!!

 

[abek0]

Usually you have a week to bring the phone back or exchange. But the 8x is awesome aside from not having lte. :b
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[MangoGuy]

Usually you have a week to bring the phone back or exchange. But the 8x is awesome aside from not having lte. :b
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yeah if i found out earlier i would have taken it back but got it for another 18 months

 

[MSFTisMIA]

yeah if i found out earlier i would have taken it back but got it for another 18 months

that's a shame they did that. The 810 and 8X on t-mo are, and never were intended to be LTE.

 

[abek0]

Personally, I would go to a corporate store and raise hell. They cannot lie to you like that.

 

[MangoGuy]

Personally, I would go to a corporate store and raise hell. They cannot lie to you like that.

I know they advised me to get concrete info then go to our website which basically tells me the sales team will do anything for a sale!

 

[rysliv]

I don't see how hard it is to understand, the T-Mobile/AT&T or Non CDMA versions of the 8x aren't LTE capable, but support HSPA+ 42 instead, don't go saying that HSPA+ 42 isn't fast, I've topped 30 mbps on it.

 

[MangoGuy]

I don't see how hard it is to understand, the T-Mobile/AT&T or Non CDMA versions of the 8x aren't LTE capable, but support HSPA+ 42 instead, don't go saying that HSPA+ 42 isn't fast, I've topped 30 mbps on it.

I here where you are coming from but when you are advised by the carrier there model of the 8x is lte ready you expect it to be lte ready!

 

[theinterceptor]

No. You get H+ but not LTE because uses their CDMA radio to run the LTE on their phones. I own a 8X and get H+ as my max in NYC. You would get wireless charging but lose full group and mms it. It depends whether or not that's a worthy tradeoff for you...

You'd have better luck with the AT&T version for LTE.

WRONG!
I've done exactly what he said... connected to T-Mobile's network with an unlocked AT&T HTC 8X and I can report that I did in fact connect to LTE and the phone reported it as LTE. My T-Mobile HTC 8X on the other hand will only connect to 4G. The phone has to have the capacity to connect to LTE built in as AT&T's does. HTC even confirms through their spec sheet that not all 8Xs are LTE capable.

 

[kth8x]

T-Mobile variant of the 8x runs hspa+ which benchmark shows runs just under LTE so it's just as fast