Samsung Galaxy S4 preview thread (was "The Galaxy S4 gets announced today, Are you excited?")

[GoWireless]

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If I bought a phone NOW without 800LTE support, I can almost guarantee with 100% certainty that I will be eligible for another upgrade by the time that part of NV is done in my area.

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Not necessarily... from what I understand, most of the equipment needed to make LTE800 happen is getting installed at the same time as the LTE1900 equipment, or at least most of the complicated stuff to install is being done at the same time (e.g. antenna panels, BTS enclosures, fiber, etc.). (Note though that from what I understand, this does not apply though to the LTE2600 stuff.) Therefore, in theory, turning on LTE800 should be a much less involved undertaking than the current work being done under NV. Now if I am incorrect about this assumption then forum wizards please feel free to correct me

 

Plus, it's not NOW as far as an S4 purchase is concerned. The device probably won't be available in US variants before May or June, thus putting it even closer to LTE800 availability.

Edited March 19, 2013 by GoWireless

[TheForce627]

 

 

3 towers?!?!?! huge area to have a coverage/device test

yes three towers.....suburban 1900 spacing and those are the only sites I'd be able to connect to

[ericdabbs]

Not necessarily... from what I understand, most of the equipment needed to make LTE800 happen is getting installed at the same time as the LTE1900 equipment, or at least most of the complicated stuff to install is being done at the same time (e.g. antenna panels, BTS enclosures, fiber, etc.). (Note though that from what I understand, this does not apply though to the LTE2600 stuff.) Therefore, in theory, turning on LTE800 should be a much less involved undertaking than the current work being done under NV. Now if I am incorrect about this assumption then forum wizards please feel free to correct me

 

Plus, it's not NOW as far as an S4 purchase is concerned. The device probably won't be available in US variants before May or June, thus putting it even closer to LTE800 availability.

 

From my understanding is that in the initial install for CDMA/LTE 1900 for any NV installation, the new NV antenna panels on top of the tower already contain 800 MHz support. I believe all that needs to be done to add LTE 800 is a single carrier card at the base station and some internal testing and it should be good to go. If it had required a new panel then it would take a lot longer to do for each tower since they would have to re-climb the tower to do so.

[TheForce627]

 

 

From my understanding is that in the initial install for CDMA/LTE 1900 for any NV installation, the new NV antenna panels on top of the tower already contain 800 MHz support. I believe all that needs to be done to add LTE 800 is a single carrier card at the base station and some internal testing and it should be good to go. If it had required a new panel then it would take a lot longer to do for each tower since they would have to re-climb the tower to do so.

i thought this was true in Alcatel-Lucent and Samsung markets, but in Ericsson ones a new RRU needed to be installed. I may be wrong though

[S4GRU]

i thought this was true in Alcatel-Lucent and Samsung markets, but in Ericsson ones a new RRU needed to be installed. I may be wrong though

 

It is not true of the first generation AlcaLu RRU's. They can only do CDMA or LTE on each RRU. They are supposed to be coming out with a combined one soon that can do both. Ericsson also is working on a combined one too.

 

Also, I'm not even 100% sure the Samsung 800 RRU can do LTE and CDMA. We only know the 1900 one can and it's an assumption that the 800 also can just like the 1900 one. That assumption could be false.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

[MacinJosh]

It is not true of the first generation AlcaLu RRU's. They can only do CDMA or LTE on each RRU. They are supposed to be coming out with a combined one soon that can do both. Ericsson also is working on a combined one too.

 

Also, I'm not even 100% sure the Samsung 800 RRU can do LTE and CDMA. We only know the 1900 one can and it's an assumption that the 800 also can just like the 1900 one. That assumption could be false.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

 

The AlcaLu combined RRU's were approved by the FCC a little while back. As far as we know, they are already deploying them in the Vegas area.

[TheForce627]

 

 

It is not true of the first generation AlcaLu RRU's. They can only do CDMA or LTE on each RRU. They are supposed to be coming out with a combined one soon that can do both. Ericsson also is working on a combined one too.

 

Also, I'm not even 100% sure the Samsung 800 RRU can do LTE and CDMA. We only know the 1900 one can and it's an assumption that the 800 also can just like the 1900 one. That assumption could be false.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

thanks for the clarification

[Rukin1]

Ugh When will sprint make an official announcement LOL

[peteyz24]

As Fraydog already stated, they have announced it

 

 

http://www.technobuf...-s-4-statement/

 

Sprint has made their announcement that they're carrying the GS4, to the shock of absolutely no one.

[Rukin1]

As Fraydog already stated, they have announced it

I',m saying on the front home page.

[kckid]

Unoffficial country list for the S4 model.

 

 

North America

I9505 – Canada

I9505 – United States

 

http://phandroid.com/2013/03/21/which-galaxy-s4-will-your-country-get/

[GoWireless]

Unoffficial country list for the S4 model.

 

North America

I9505 – Canada

I9505 – United States

 

http://phandroid.com/2013/03/21/which-galaxy-s4-will-your-country-get/

Thanks though no big surprise, that's similar to the current non-carrier-branded S3 model numbering and distribution scheme.

 

Hopefully soon we'll learn what the plethora of model numbers will be for the branded variants (which is what most people buy, at least in North America).

[Mondays In Flames]

I know this comment may be a bit late, but does any one else think all those smart gestures and what not are a little much? I don't ever really see them as useful, but rather cumbersome.... I can't imagine ever swiping my hand in front of the camera just to scroll the page... Maybe it's me, but I also don't want my phone watching me all the time. It's on a major creep level this phone. -Luis

[hoagie]

You're being watched every day all the time, by humans.. When you're in public, when you're at work. When you go to an airport, board a plane, go through the security checkpoint. Your ISP knows when you come to this website or if you go to any other website. Still concerned about your phone?

 

I'll be the first to say that I don' t know how it's doing it but the machine may not even be using the camera for these gestures, it may just have a sensitive touch screen. It's the least of my worries in this day and age.

[WiWavelength]

Maybe it's me, but I also don't want my phone watching me all the time. It's on a major creep level this phone.

 

Worried about the camera seeing your "o-face" while you are browsing mobile porn?

 

AJ

[lilotimz]

http://mobile-review.com/review/samsung-galaxy-s4-camera.shtml

 

Pictures look mightily impressive.

[Rukin1]

http://mobile-review...s4-camera.shtml

 

Pictures look mightily impressive.

wow they really do. They loooook nice!

[Mondays In Flames]

 

 

Worried about the camera seeing your "o-face" while you are browsing mobile porn?

 

AJ

 

LOOOL not exactly. But something like thet. I want my phone to be a phone not constantly watching me and monitoring my face, or whatever. It just seems like a creeper feature.

 

 

-Luis

[cablemonkey]

You're being watched every day all the time, by humans.. When you're in public, when you're at work. When you go to an airport, board a plane, go through the security checkpoint. Your ISP knows when you come to this website or if you go to any other website. Still concerned about your phone?

 

Can't speak for anywhere else, but the ISP I used to work for didn't log/monitor user activity. Of course, it was a smaller, regional ISP, and that was a few years ago, so who knows what the big guys do now. As for where I work now, you bet all user activity is monitored and logged. From my experience, companies pay a *lot* more attention to what their employees do than ISPs do their customers.

[hoagie]

Not talking about the local ISP, that may or may not monitor/log your traffic but your ISP's ISP.. The CIA has it's hand in everything!

[Rukin1]

Can't speak for anywhere else, but the ISP I used to work for didn't log/monitor user activity. Of course, it was a smaller, regional ISP, and that was a few years ago, so who knows what the big guys do now. As for where I work now, you bet all user activity is monitored and logged. From my experience, companies pay a *lot* more attention to what their employees do than ISPs do their customers.

ISP's monitor your internet. I know comcast does rofl. If any site I visit that is known for piracy like TPB. I'm 90% sure that comcast knows it

[S4GRU]

rofl

 

You sure are one jovial fellow. You lol or rofl in nearly every post.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

[Rukin1]

You sure are one jovial fellow. You lol or rofl in nearly every post.

 

Robert via Nexus 7 with Tapatalk HD

Hey, I laugh in person all the time too. it's good to be happy lol

[ericdabbs]

Looks like bad news for the Sprint Samsung Galaxy S4. The Sprint version went through the FCC today and from looking at the FCC documents, it only contains Band 25 (1900 MHz A-G block) LTE support and supports only 5 MHz bandwidths.

 

I am very sad about the lack of multi-band LTE support but at the same time I am not surprised about this given the HTC One only contains Band 25 (1900 MHz A-G block) LTE support as well. I just really hope the 2H 2013 LTE phones like the LG Optimus G 2, Galaxy Note 3, Moto X (rumored), Nexus 5, etc contain tri-band LTE support.

 

I'll be looking forward to AJ's article for further analysis on the Sprint Galaxy S4 FCC documents.

 

Engadget article about Sprint Samsung Galaxy S4 hits FCC.

http://www.engadget....d-sprint-forms/

 

 

Sprint Galaxy S4 FCC filing

https://apps.fcc.gov...c_id=A3LSPHL720

[digiblur]

Looks like some decent numbers though and seems like they improved on the 850 issue the S3 had.

 

Curious to see the real world comparison reports though as I don't hold a lot of faith to those tests.

 

Sent from my little Note2