Bob Newhart

What does it say is using the battery? With a signal and not using the phone, the battery can last for days.

Both my phones got it a few nights ago. Anyone notice anything different, performance wise? I did notice that the local search has been removed, I disabled that as soon as I got the phones anyway.

Sprint is of course doing the right thing here. I'm sure or at least hope most of the comments here are jokes. Maybe the next design wouldn't include a flat platform that is so ideally constructed for the birds of prey to build their nests. If the trees weren't all bull dozed down, they wouldn't do this.

I have two QNAPs, a TS-412P and a TS-219PII, plus a Zyxel NSA221. The Qnaps are very good, the Zyxel is cheap and is used for a back up of the Qnap data.

Very practical, the less time Tx/Rx the longer the battery life, faster responses too.

Do two adjacent towers use exactly the same frequency? If so, can they both tx/rx at exactly the same time? Do they use gold codes like GPS satellites?

Sounds promising.

That is a shame its on the GS3 too, I was hoping that it wasn't. On the GNex today, wifi disabled, came out of a building, got a signal, no data. Went into Starbucks, connected to Wifi, disconnected Wifi, then 3G data came back. Is it a bug on the EVO too?

Let us know if you bump into the same 'no data bug'. This shows up when you go somewhere with no signal, then go somewhere with a signal. The data doesn't turn back on. I still have a lot of the $50 google wallet left, I have used it in Jack in the Box and McDonalds, sometimes doesn't work.

I wouldn't get the GNexus, it has too many bugs and a poor signal performance. I have two of them, awful phones. I would consider the EVO, I have yet try that phone though.

It wouldn't have made a difference with Sprint in the past if they did implement EVDO RevB or anything else if they kept feeding their towers with T1s. Look at what they did with Rev0/A, you can't even get max EVDO speeds right now... It is the same as me installing 802.11ac in my house and only having 1.5 Mbps DSL..... I still have 1.5 Mbps DSL.

Saw a GSIII for the first time today, compared it with the G Nexus. The GSIII signal strength is a LOT stronger, makes the phone useable in places where the Nexus is not. I don't like the GSIII's UI at all. I do like the reboot option on the power button menu. One feature I do like is the ability to disable international roaming while keeping domestic roaming enabled, I would use that feature a lot. When I go to and near Canada, I disable data roaming if I'm anywhere near. Since SMS text messages are included at no extra cost, I can still use my phone, voice when I need it too. Is that feature in Jelly Bean?

Err.... that isn't true for Sprint. They don't have interest in building coverage outside of cities, maybe in the future that will change. Back in the Nextel days, rural coverage was what set them apart.

The faster the cell network speeds, the less time your phone spends Tx/Rx, which equals a greater battery life. Part of a reason for poor battery life on my phone is terrible cell network, it spends much much longer updating playStore app, updating news/weather, 0.060 Mbps speeds really chew the battery up.

If only there were plans for a nationwide cell network of any kind, that'd be great.

I get that the Airave can be used for 1x/3g data aswell as wifi. Do you get that I get that you got that? :jester: :wiggle: People who live in poor signal areas use Airaves for voice and background data. Data on my phone that gets downloaded in the background, such as PlayStore updates. I have not changed that to use Wifi only.

The airave stops your battery going dead, a good reason to have an airave, even if you use the wifi for data, or even if you don't even use your phone and its just in your pocket. You still need an Airave for text messages (unless you use the google voice app) and incoming (atleast) voice calls. If the Airave supported LTE, that might also extend the life of the battery, especially if your real LTE signal comes and goes, in and out if you're on the edge of the service area. This is something I'm not looking forward to see the affects of when LTE is turned on where I live.

That guy is making it way too complicated. No port forwarding is needed.

Setting up an Airave is really easy and requires no modification of your main router's settings. No forwarding settings are needed. Plug the WAN port of the Airave into a LAN port of your main router, that is it. Do not plug anything into a LAN port of the Airave. You sometimes will have to reset the Airave, push in the small reset button.

T-Mobile (and all the other main cell companies) have tons of spectrum that they do not use. They should be force to give it up to the smaller regional companies.

I have this issue on the G-Nexus too every few days. I usually only have to go into the data setting, disable mobile data, then re-enable.

Good to hear something is going on here.

I look forward to the cell radio comparison article. It'd be great if it covered the wifi signal strengths too.

Used to use Swype too, bought swiftkey, like it more.

I found the root metrics application to be better than the Sensorly one. It runs in the foreground only, so you always know when its running. The Sensorly one morphed into being not user friendly. The coverage maps on Sprints (and others of course) are vague and confusing on purpose. Different shades of green, for roaming and non-roaming. They should use colours such as shades of green for Sprint signals and any other colour under the rainbow for roaming, any other colour. Sprint's are quite accurate though, a lot more than the other cell phone companies.