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My wife works for a hospital system that currently gives a 25% discount (up from 23% a year or two ago) so our lines are under her name.

https://youtu.be/fzLtF_PxbYw?t=30s edit50: I guess I can't link a time and have it as a playable screen. sucks

So here is my timeline on my iPhone 6 -> 6s exchange under iPhone forever. 1) Oct. 1st Order placed 2) Oct. 6th Device arrives 3) Oct. 6th Sprint doesn't know where the Return Kit is 4) Oct. 7th Get text warning me I have 10 days to turn in my iPhone 6 5) Oct. 7th See $430 balance due on 10/20/15 6) Oct. 7th Get annoyed at Sprint If this gets charged to me due to a slowdown in warehouse receipt at their end they better not offer me account credit back. I pretty much left Sprint about 3 years ago over a billing fiasco where they erroneously billed me $700 and it took me threatening a chargeback and a 3 way call with my credit card company and Sprint billing to get the $ back.

Yeah I turned it off already. I attribute it to extreme boredom at work as too many people are out on vacation/visiting customers for me to get anything done here.

Of course it isn't a perfect analogy. I suppose a better one would be to compare it to a tollway such as the one near Austin which is privately owned. Customers do have choices between carriers, for sure. However, it blurs the lines when certain carriers such as T-Mobile (and now a Sprint subbrand) offer data limits with certain activities not counting against that limit. To me it is problematic that certain companies get to pick and choose winners. What if Verizon said that their new Go90 (stupid name) video streaming wouldn't count against bandwidth caps? Wouldn't that be a disincentive for Verizon subscribers to use other competing services? The bottom line is it distorts competition while also interfering with consumer choices which is kind of the whole point of net neutrality rules, right?

That sprint subsidiary and net neutrality was talked about some in this thread: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/6765-sprint-supporting-net-neutrality-with-condition/ Basically I am against it because it is like the highway department making a deal with GM/Ford/Fiat to get free gas (unlimited data) for anyone driving a GM/Ford/Fiat vehicle. Sure, that is great for customers: My mileage on the highway doesn't increase the cost of ownership of my car (cellphone service) and I can spend the pay miles on city roads (other internet services) so I can drive more there! However, it also negatively impacts other players in that market Nissan/Honda/Hyundai/etc by making their services appear more costly

It is interesting that my original auth dropped off like 4 days ago. Maybe they are preauthorizing the accounts every week since it has been 7 days since I placed the order. Good to know I wasn't the only one though! edit: I may have a problem. I set up automatic notifications for pending charges. edit2: now I have auto-refresh running on my browser tab with my order status open. I'll never make it through the month at this rate guys. edit3: charge has disappeared

Hum, a new pending charge showed up for me: I wonder if this means my order will go from preorder to pending soon like the Nexus 5x people are seeing.

Hmm, I will keep an eye out for it to ship/arrive then, thanks

Well, I got my iphone 6s today but I still don't have the return kit..

This link was from that reddit thread: http://demo.hiraku.tw/CPUIdentifier/ OR this https://appsto.re/us/-AarJ.i

I rather like the look of this adapter from Monoprice http://www.monoprice.com/product?c_id=103&cp_id=10330&cs_id=1033001&p_id=13507&seq=1&format=2 I'll be buying one for my computer once I see my 6P go pending

5x: shorter screen, shorter wait.

Google has begun to process payments for Nexus 5X orders! https://www.reddit.com/r/nexus5x/comments/3nkz37/google_has_begun_processing_for_shipment/ This was also confirmed by one of my coworkers. His order now shows as "pending".

So this qualcomm antenna tuner as I understand it is a voltage controlled capacitor that basically they pre-load with some situations to try to prevent "antenna-gate" style problems. They can preload a solution for how it is held in either hand or if it sees a problem, etc. I thought this was already included in the Snapdragon 810 because I remember reading about it months ago but this is the first I have heard of someone actually utilizing it. I find the phone concept really neat but I wish the extra screen was at the BOTTOM of the phone where I could check it one handed or something.

as an aside the price difference is actually only $57 between a 32 GB 6P and 32 GB 5X due to the $13 USB C -> A cable that the 6p includes. https://store.google.com/product/usb_type_c_to_usb_standard_a_plug_cable Of course the 16GB 5x is still a great deal but I just noticed this when looking at the 5x for a friend who hates larger phones. edit: also, a glorious reversible connector gif

My wife's 6S is arriving tomorrow. I plan to steal it and run a Speedtest or two on the big B41 tower near our house just to see what CA looks like here in Austin. I'm dying waiting for my 6P (which supports b41 CA) to arrive at the end of this month.

Unless, as is the case here, the company is seen to have higher than industry average/competitor operating costs. Then the outlook is generally more positive.

Actually this isn't the first time I have heard of Sirius radio issues. I have heard of past Sirius having issues with aviation and government 2 way radios and also radar spread spectrum bursts. From my understanding Sirius had some issues with "muting" when they started working with car OEMs whereas before it had previously not seen as a pressing issue. Where I work I was talking with some older engineers who remember the Sirius receivers having to have special notch filters in place after this exact type of interference was found to be an issue (we do some sat-com and high frequency RF work for some government programs). I think Sirus and the carmakers' solution was a wideband filter that is still in use today (my coworker said it was a Murata product). From my point of view T-Mobile saying it is Sirius' fault is really disingenuous because they ALREADY went beyond requirements and provide several dB worth of rejection for this type of signal interference.

Nice color combo!

Or alternatively they are announcing job cuts because everyone else is like AMD, Caterpillar, Samsung, Lockheed Martin , BAE , and plenty of others

It seems to me like Softbank has maybe said it will not be providing funding so Sprint is raising rates to increase revenue and also attempting to cut costs....while building out the network.

Chat rep said it was updated last week and remains true for this week as well.

For anyone still waiting to get an iphone 6S here is the current shipping status for the various models: http://shop2.sprint.com/en/legal/os_shipping_taxes_popup.shtml

I don't think the net neutrality supporters (such as myself) have been silent here at all. Really I just have never seen this thread before until I went to "New Content" on a whim. I'll be just as consistent as others here: Picking and choosing favorites is just as much of a violation as outright penalizing certain data or asking for certain data to be priced differently. The complaints are, of course, loudest about T-Mobile because it started this whole bullshit of what I like to call "benevolent violation" They claim to mean the best by whitelisting data from certain music services and speedtests but in reality they further marginalize the sideline players in those industries and provide disincentives to new entrants. The real issue here is that while outright charging more for a certain service has a quantifiable and noticeable effect...whitelisting damages (such as what I just outlined above) are much harder to quantify. How do you measure negative pressure to enter a market due to this? It'd be just as easy to lump it into the melting pot of established competition/low margins/etc when doing any type of analysis. It doesn't matter if Sprint or it's subsidiaries are simply reacting to the perceived success of this strategy of net neutrality violation by matching the T-Mobile offers or providing similar offers. It is still against net neutrality. Mostly I just did not know Sprint was doing this on one of it's subbrands. In this case ignorance is a reasonable excuse to any claims of 'silence' on the part of people who are net neutrality supporters and Sprint customers.