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Pretty sure an E-ARFCN value of 2 IS 3xCA...?

This is honestly the least excited I've been for a new phone, but it's time. Was not supposed to ship for like another week, so it was a pleasant surprise to get it so soon. 7+ 256gb in black.

In other news, I got a shipment email from Sprint. UPS tracking says my new iPhone will be here Monday!

I'm struggling mathematically on what the proper route is for an upgrade from a Iphone 6+. We are on the ED1500 - and plan to keep it that way. A 128gb Iphone 7+ looks to be $419 on Sprint with a 2 year agreement - but then you are only upgrading every two years. I think it would be neato to be able to upgrade each time a new one is released. Or you can do the Apple Iphone Upgrade deal through Apple at $41.58 a month. That includes AppleCare+ and comes out to $498/yr for the device - BUT you can get the new phone each year. Or the Sprint Iphone Forever deal? Have not seen pricing for that for the iPhone 7+ yet. But the key here might be that it doesnt 'include' AppleCare+. So if I convince myself that upgrading every year is the 'norm' - I am out, what... $80/year for the ability to upgrade each year? Been a long day - and I am struggling.

I absolutely disagree. I am a Google Maps guy through and through (even though tin-foil-hat people seem genuinely concerned about google knowing their location.) With that being said though, on iOS, I really have an appreciation for both. Google Maps is my go-to for turn-by-turn directions. Google Maps itself loads faster, and the satellite maps also load WAY faster. But Apple Maps wins the 3D stuff. I am working in Montreal this week, and for simply exploring around the city, its much more robust on Apple Maps - even though it seems to take much longer to do it. For turn by turn, google maps still wins, but just exploring around, Apple Maps takes the cake. With all of that being said, if Apple could make the turn-by-turn stuff (including traffic) as robust as Google Maps, thats about all it would take to push me over the edge to be an Apple Maps fan as opposed to Google Maps.

Both of our boys have one. 4 and 5 years old. Both have Shockdrop cases, and we have had no problems with damage from rough play or milk/apple juice spills. Like @kineticman, we also use a family account with apple. Same thing, they cant make purchases, and anything they want to download has to be approved by my wife or I on our devices. In addition, we refuse to give the kids their apple ID passwords. Its a fine line to walk, but in the end, I have no problems with it. Our 5 year old normally loves to watch 'How its made' videos on youtube. and our 4 year old watches Mario Kart videos. Limit the time, and the kids will do fine.

No issues at all so far. I ended up having to get a replacement phone from Apple (from dropping my old jailbroken 6+) so I was forced into a non-jailbreak situation. CellularInfo seems to work just as well. I would have loved a fully untethered jailbreak, but beggars cant be choosers. I was definitely on the 'beggars' end this time.

OH MY GOODNESS. FINALLY, we get a 9.3.3 Jailbreak - first tweak I installed? CellularInfo! Woooooooohooooooo!

Sprints median download speed decreased. WTF mate? I realize it doesnt really matter - I spend a lot of time in Chicago and the network is great basically anywhere I go. But I have to admit I was a little surprised to see download speeds dropped.

Keep some perspective here folks. High school project.

I was in San Diego the past 4 weeks for work and Sprint was acceptable. Service at the airport was actually the worst part of it - but I had no issues other than that. I was doing work near the baseball park, and stayed at the Hilton Bayfront and the Hilton Mission Valley. No issues in either of those two areas. I'm sure B26 would be a welcome addition, but the network was usable.

In those areas, yes. But only in those areas. The areas in red and light green on the map on page 2 of that document still are in limbo apparently.

Anybody care to give a TLDR for the 2-3 pages before this one? I lost interest and quit reading when I saw paragraphs posted by Arysyn .

Both companies are leaps and bounds beyond where they were a year or two ago. Both companies can (now) step in and beef up their low-band spectrum holdings. Just zip it with the merger talk, please.

I guess at this point, I hold out hope that they'll just replace the screen/glass. I would think it makes better financial sense for them to take the hour or whatever and replace he screen than it does to just hand me a new device? Maybe not.

Blargh! 7 months+ out from a new iphone, and I managed to drop my beloved Iphone 6+ face down onto concrete yesterday. Still on 9.0.2 because I did not want to lose my jailbreak - I love CellularInfo, Gmailer, BatteryLife, Speed Intensifier, and TypeStatus 2. I have AppleCare+. Last time I went in for an issue, I simply wiped the phone and restored 9.0.2 because that version was still being signed - and I knew I could come back home and jailbreak the replacement device. As expected - Apple ended up just swapping it the entire device and I came home and did the jailbreak. Oddly enough - the replacement device was on a wayyyy older iOS version (8.4.1 I think) Now though... 9.0.2 is no longer signed. Have an appointment with the genius bar wednesday morning, and in the notes for the appointment, I mentioned that I really wanted THIS devices screen/glass replaced instead of getting a replacement device. So now the question is this: If they are not able to just install a replacement display - do I say nevermind and keep my broken display with the jailbreak still there? Or do I chance it, and take the replacement device, and cross my fingers and hope that the replacement device is still on 9.0.2?

As he others have said - not possible. Not even the same operating system.

I would challenge that and say that the oldest daughter and oldest son are both photoshopped in. Edit: unless of his oldest son is blurry in real life, and the oldest girl has no shoulders in real life. lol

Side note: Does Marcelo's twitter header photo really bug anyone else? For running a company the size of Sprint, it is surprising to me that he cant find someone who is better at photoshop. (or get his family all in one place for a picture.)

I was pleasantly surprised. I usually just turn off wifi when I get to airports because I hate clicking through the pages to get 30 minutes for free. Just happened to forget to turn it off this week and saw it was connected. Neat stuff. After further reading, it sounds like Ohare was/is sort of the test bed for the Passpoint Secure network stuff. Impressive regardless.

And on that topic - its hilarious that Tmobile idiots are already blowing the comments section up on that article. Instead of asking why their speeds and coverage at airports is subpar - they'd rather blast Sprint for offering a better experience to their customers... FOR FREE.

This always used to be an android-only thing (or at least when it first was announced as 'working') I was pleasantly surprised to find that my Iphone automagically connected to the Passpoint Secure wifi network all over Ohare this week. Sub 5ms pings, and 30-40mb downoad and upload speeds virtually everwhere I checked. Worked extremely smoothly.

Can you link to them? I dug all over and could not find the maps.

I cant wait for them to 'turn on' VOLTE for Tmobile in 1H 2016 results, and then find that TMUS actually comes out worse or ends up exactly the same. For Tmobiles sake, I hope their advances are exactly what they claim they are.

Did they yank the International Coverage Maps? I cant find them anywhere now.