stretch614

Coz, while what you say is true - to be fair a lot of Sprint customers in general won't know 2.5 exist because Sprint is selling only 1900 phones as we speak and most of those are not iPhones.  Someone will go out next month and buy any phone Sprint has and be ignorant to the fact maybe they should wait for an 800 phone or the LG tri-band.  Has anyone here asked other Sprint customers (oblivious to this website ) about tri-band ?  A high percentage of Sprint customers understand they are getting LTE, but beyond that many don't know much about bands ( if at all ) and they don't understand the new phone they just bought is stuck on 1900 either.  I spoke to a Sprint salesman at a local store and they didn't even have a clue about tri-band LTE!  I'm sure some salesman know, but you can gues whose gonna be pushing tri-band phones when half the salesman don't even know the specs of the ones they have.

 

While the iPhone 5s is dual band they'll still have the 800 lte which should perform well, huh? 800 probably won't be very heavily populated the first year or two.  1900 will be packed.  2500 will also be light for a long time .. it's not like  50% of Columbus customers will get a triband phone right away. There are a lot of iPhones and Android phones stuck on 1900 in the hands of customers now.  I think that leaves some breathing space in the other bands.

I tend to agree with you. In my opinion if was unrealistic to expect them to roll out a tri-band phone when Sprint has yet to cover the majority of the population with a single band of LTE. I would have loved to see a tri-band phone but I think that is a bit unrealistic given that the Clearwire acquisition was so recent and there haven't been any tri-band phones released to date (Apple hasn't ever really been the trailblazer on this). If we are in the same position a year from now then I will be greatly disappointed in both Sprint and Apple.

First time posting, as I am not a mobile expert but I do have some knowledge on the IT and Computer Engineering side of things. One of the things I've routinely noticed with Spring 3G and now it even looks like Scooter's recent 4G post is the high Ping time. This number is much higher than what I typically find on other networks, i.e. this is more of a "lag time" rather than the actual width of the pipe (Mbps). I was wondering if this could be a result of a poor DNS server on Sprint's end and not necessarily a limitation of the network or backhaul. Does anyone know if this could be the case or if it is possible to change the DNS settings (to Google for example)? I have an iPhone 5 but would be curious if anyone is able to test this by changing to Google DNS (https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/). I am hoping one of the many Android users out there may be able to test, since I will admit you typically have more customization options than I do.