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My mistake, I thought the broadcom was also used for cellular and not just Wi-Fi. I guess this makes sense, as the gs3 doesn't utilize the on chip Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/fm in the 8960 instead using a separate chip compared to the one x, although this doesn't seem to affect battery much. And I'm almost positive the LG ls970 was confirmed via leaked tech specs to have the apq 8064 with the mdm9615 modem (both 28nm) in July, maybe it's wrong to believe that but from Qualcomm's own timetable it fits well... although all this is speculation at this point still, and my post was all simply based on my experience with those phones and is not in any way scientific.

Don't get too caught up on the modem not being on the chip. The shrink in size is huge... think of it like this: OG Evo 4G: 65nm CPU/65nm baseband. 4-5hours battery heavy use. OG Epic 4G 45nm CPU/65nm baseband, 5 hours battery heavy use. Epic Touch 32nm dual core CPU/65nm baseband, 6 hours battery heavy use Razr LTE 45nm dual core CPU/45nm baseband, 6 hours battery heavy use Galazy S3/Evo LTE 28nm dual core CPU/28nm baseband same chip, 8-9 hours The older phones almost all used the Broadcom BCM4329 65nm baseband, and battery life got better with CPU die shrinks (partially offset by the change to dual cores). Especially interesting was the RAZR I had, it had a worse CPU die size, but smaller baseband, and was nearly identical to the more efficient CPU in the epic touch with bad basebane. FWIW... when I turned WiMax off on the Epic Touch, battery life was REALLY good (like 10 hours), vs LTE off on the Razr didn't help as much. The fact that the Galaxy S3 is so good isn't just that the modem is on the same chip, but the modem is ALSO 28nm. Whether or not it's on the same chip with the CPU or not I feel will make less difference than the die shink to 28nm, so the LG phone will do great. It will be hurt by the quad core too though, but I would expect battery life between the GS2 and GS3 with a good battery (2000+mah). Just my $0.02

Any initial results yet? I'm not sure if I missed them or if you are trying to find time for this experiment. I'm sure juggling all those phones must be a daunting task!

Bought the GS3 soon as it came out. Prior to LTE turn on, I left WiFi on for our companies connection, connected to 3G at about -96dB (2-3 bars) I would drain about 60-70% battery in a day, leaving about 30% driving home. Now I am on LTE coverage all day at work (-105db, 3 bars) and drain about 40-50% battery with WiFi off over 8 or 9 hours. The past three days I have left with over 50% battery, about the same use. Could be due to the fact I don't need to use wifi anymore, not sure. At my house I am on WiFi and an Airrave that gives crap for signal (-95 to -110dB 3G/1X) and my battery drains much faster, just like my old phone. At my girlfriends apartment I get 3G only, but about -60db signal (full bars, tower across the street) and I'm pretty sure my phone can't die there. Last weekend I got 18 hours using WiFi under heavy use. No LTE there yet sadly (I can force a -120db connection but it's not really worth it). In comparison, my WiMax phones (OG Epic and Epic Touch) would not last the day at work on 3G or a day at home. At the girlfriends house, the Epic Touch would make it a day, unless I turned on WiMax. WiMax was great at her place, full signal, but as far as battery life I'd rather not talk about it. To the guy who made the comment about running a USB toaster off his phone, I disagree. I could only really use WiMax if I plugged my phone in, and with the power draw of that radio plus the charging of the battery, I'm almost positive I could toast some pop tarts WITH my phone, no toaster necessary.

GREAT article!!! Thank you for saying this!! On another note, Houston is covered by WiMax and now is getting LTE, and while I understand how people may be upset about WiMax area's getting LTE first in some cases, let me tell you about WiMax... It is horrible. I never used it, and I had two phones that were WiMax capable. Battery life was non existent, and connections were REALLY tempermental. In two years, I was never able to consistently use WiMax (well, once, in an airport). As soon as you entered any building the signal would drop from 4 bars to nothing and put you right back onto 3G. LTE with under 40% deployment is already more consistent than a full rollout of WiMax ever was for me in Houston, without battery sacrifices either. I think you have the wrong idea to begin with in your arguement, you are presuming that WiMax is worthy of calling a 4G network in the first place. While I don't blame Sprint for choosing WiMax initially, almost anybody that has attempted to use it would agree it's bad. Handoff to 3G is bad, and handoffs between WiMax towers I don't even think are possible. If I were sprint, I would not even pay attention to WiMax maps when choosing where to deploy LTE.

I think he is referring to WiFi... 5GHz WiFi is included in the LTEvo, the 3D only has 2.4GHz. The GS3 also has 5GHz. Haven't played with it, but then again WiFi isn't very saturated in my area so I don't have issues with 20 neighbors using WiFi in the 2.4 frequency. Also I don't have a 5GHz router.

Hopefully they fixed their kernel. The sgs2 has been plagued by a kernel bug that has to do with deleting data, you can get corruption in the actual physical memory module and get a totally bricked device i heard. Usually happens when deleting anything in the system partition with an ics kernel, all the guys with ROMS had been using gingerbread kernels before messing with anything in the system partition, but the error could occur anywhere (system flashes are simply larger and more strenuous).

I'm going to go with sometime early monday, like 3am. I doubt they would lauch a brand new network, with all the potential problems, on a friday/saturday/sunday when most of the customer service reps and techs are enjoying their weekend. But here's to hoping I'm wrong!

This comes from over at the XDA forums where this has been discussed in detail http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1752203 Quote from biff6789: :-)

I joined because I wanted to say thank you for this comparison in advance, it's about time this happened!