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Yup but I have to buy it at full retail price rather than buying a used one for half the price so I will be waiting a bit.

A few things to note:1) Sprint has enough spectrum to go around 2) These MVNOs are very valuable for poaching customers from other carriers. Ting for instance has the following breakdown: 30% Verizon 28% Sprint 21% AT&T 12% T-Mobile 9% Other. Rather than think of MVNOs like competing carriers it would be more apt to think of them as low cost plans to draw in people who don't want/need unlimited data/minutes/texts or are adverse to signing contracts at a carrier. My personal view is that Sprint MVNOs are great (full disclosure, I currently have 2 lines on Ting). Why? There are plenty of customers seeking to pay less and if those subscribers are going to leave, which they absolutely will, you may as well steal subscribers from yourself. If Ting and other MVNOs didn't offer cheap Sprint network plans I would have moved to AT&T/Verizon or one of their MVNOs. I don't see myself signing a carrier contract unless my job starts paying for it or my data usage goes up considerably. My price to pay for this is unsubsidized phones and often a delay in the availability of new phones. That seems a fair trade off while segregating the availability of service does not.

Wait 3-6 months. Sprint HTC One and S4 are already ~$300 or less on craigslist. Too bad they can't be moved to MVNOs yet.

Ting told me they will have full band support from Sprint and setup wise it is easier than WiMax setup but they currently have no phones that support it.

Actually I would say the only carrier who absolutely NEEDS it is T-Mobile. Sprint has a ton of spectrum available and now that the 800 mhz band is slowly coming online they will be able to have building penetration like verizon and AT&T. Isn't T-Mobile still stuck with 1900 mhz+?

If what the government actually wants is 4 strong carriers then what they really need to do is block AT&T and Verizon from buying up these small local carriers. I'm not sure Sprint needs T-Mobile at this point now that it has Softbank. T-Mobile needs more spectrum before they can expand but I am not sure they can AFFORD the capex it would take to substantially expand their network. I see T-Mobile remaining a strictly urban carrier for the foreseable future. Sprint has a long road of expensive retrofitting before it can truly compete with AT&T and Verizon.

I wonder if this nexus will be made available to Sprint MVNOs like the Moto X seems to be (republic wireless and now the MVNO I use, Ting). Any news or rumors about that?

Yup. They gotta make up for the lowered iphone prices somewhere

In a time of desperate hunger I ate a ham and cheese hot pocket. I'll never forget the day that plasticy, molten, unchewable ham burned my bottom lip as the sun-like cheese leaked onto my finger cuticle. I have no doubt that ham and cheese hot pockets deserve to be added to the banned chemical weapons in the Geneva Protocol. I did not finish the so-called "snack" and resorted to eating a pack of lifesavers which truly were worthy of their namesake.

I didn't have a problem with this when I got my EVO3d or when a friend snagged an HTC One a day early through a Costco store.

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Well, yeah. Since I generally only buy used phones this makes my future market crappier. Even more so since Sprint phones usually have the lowest resale value.

It is too bad that this requires giving the phone back to Sprint. I would have loved to see 1 year old phones constantly on the market for resale.

Actually there is! According to Arstechnica (http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/lgs-g2-smartphone-gets-caught-living-in-the-shadows-of-giants/2/ ) the LG G2 manages just fine: "One of the more interesting additions to the G2 is a battery saving trick called "panel self refresh." PSR works by including a small amount of graphics RAM, and when the screen isn't changing, the phone will save the static image to the graphics RAM and shut down the GPU. The biggest power usage in a phone is always the display, but every little bit counts."

Where I work our prototypes/engineering test devices often have snap clips on the exterior casing when the final product is 100% sealed. It makes sense from a testing standpoint.

Well, look, I am on an EVO 3D and I am on a Sprint MVNO (Ting). I generally keep my phones for a long time. For me this makes sense as I am in a large metro area and I feel very confident that all 3 bands will be active in the next year or so. I just don't see the point in a phone that is cut off from the future network like my current WiMax device is. 800 LTE compatibility is super important to me as 1900 3g barely reaches into houses in my area. WiMax has very good coverage here (2500) and that big potential burst speed is what I am looking for when on the road for emails. These two combined is what will keep me on Sprint.

Well, it is definitely why I didn't.

https://ting.com/blog/ting-pays-out-etfs-up-to-75-per-line/ Pretty good deal for anyone considering moving to Ting.

Actually my possible concern with the release schedule would be that it arrives too close to the potential upcoming "Nexus 5." Who knows, maybe they are scheduling it this way to give the iPhone time to sell a bunch since Sprint does have that $billions in contract orders to Apple to fulfill. Anyway, I'm on a MVNO so I'd be happy to buy a used G2 in a few months but I would LOVE to buy a Nexus off contract directly from Google. For me it comes down to the price mostly but a new non scuffed phone would be nice.

As an aside, does anyone know of any upcoming Google events that would announce this phone if it was a new Nexus device?

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GSM Arena has battery test results up and it looks really quite impressive: http://blog.gsmarena.com/lg-g2-battery-tests-are-done-here-are-the-results/ Still waiting on Anandtech to back these results up a bit more but it looks good.

Well, if you check the bands listed it shows the Sprint bands which I have bolded below. It looks to be a true Sprint Triband device like the LG G2. LTE 2100+1700/850/700/1900/800 (band 4, 5, 17, 25, 26) TD-LTE 2600 (band 41) As for buying the phone off contract there are many Sprint MVNOs that offer seriously great rates such as www.Ting.com and bringing your own device is definitely the way to go. As someone else pointed out the Iphone 5 still isn't offered while the HTC One and Galaxy S4 are. So, it is a bit of a mixed bag when it comes to buying off contract phones for use on the Sprint network.

This changes everything for me. I'd skip the LG G2 and Note 3 for this phone.

Well, if we have to wait to get this device I may just consider a Note 3 if it has better RF performance. I am fairly wary of trying a new device as my current device is pretty good in the RF department.