WiWavelength

"Let's Talk About Six" AJ

I would not hold my breath for that. T-Mobile is being wildly optimistic about native coverage expansion by the end of the year. I will believe it when I see it. Even then, if it happens, expect it to be a lot of token footprint for coverage map ego purposes. It will not be mature, high quality coverage. Roaming -- if it does not get taken away -- will still enter the equation a lot. Many growing pains ahead for T-Mobile... AJ

What do you mean by "no roaming data"? Sprint has long had a CDMA2000 voice and data roaming agreement with VZW. If you are not receiving at least CDMA1X roaming data, then something is amiss with your account or device settings. AJ

"I Want Your Six" AJ

"The Joy of Six" AJ

"My family and I are looking for Six." AJ

Go ask them, Mr. maximus question asker, why so many in the T-ech media have taken their generally positive stances on T-Mobile and generally negative attitudes toward Sprint for at least several years now. AJ

Would the T-ech media be receptive, positive, or at least unbiased? The T-ech media seems to have its own agenda. AJ

Not the only one, no doubt. But Cheng is known for helping Legere crash AT&T's CES party and T-oadily tweeting out a selfie with the Pink Joker. AJ

Roger Cheng is such a T-oady. AJ

But you could not nab a pass? AJ

You made a word choice mistake in your post. I fixed it. If T-Mobile were to offer this service, it would be the best, most uncarrierest thing ever. But since Sprint offers it, it will be viewed as stupid and worthless. AJ

You guys are wrong on the dates. "The Salton Sea" was created in 2002. I saw it at a film festival around that time back when I was in film school. Regardless, this is an odd, sensationalist topic. The idea that there will be some mass evacuation or exodus of millions of Californians is preposterous. That will not happen. Rather, if water conditions worsen, there may be a steady trickle -- much like the Colorado River itself -- of people leaving the state, enough to effect negative population change. It could amount to several million people over several years, probably a decade or more. Moreover, any migration away from California would not be received in just one area. Many emigrants could go back to Mexico, taking them out of the national equation. Likely domestic destinations could include Las Vegas, the Valley of the Sun, the Willamette Valley, the Puget Sound area, the Wasatch Front, the Rocky Mountain Front Range, and Albuquerque. Those long have been popular spots for ex Californians, so that is nothing new. It is not as if Portland suddenly is going to swell by three million relocations from California. That "contingency" need not be a concern. In the end, what is the impetus for this thread? Do Okies have some sort of reverse Dust Bowl fantasy that consumes and empties California? AJ

No, enabling band 38 MFBI would be largely ineffectual. Compared to band 41, which is 2496-2690 MHz, band 38 is only 2570-2620 MHz. Even then, only 2572-2614 MHz in the BRS/EBS bandplan is available to Sprint. So, subtract 8 MHz. Moreover, take away any BRS/EBS licenses in that 42 MHz range that Sprint does not hold in a given market. At best, two band 41 carriers could be also band 38 MFBI compatible. More likely, though, only one or zero band 41 carriers would fall entirely within that range. Not a good solution. Instead, the right solution is for other network operators and device OEMs to start supporting band 38 as a subset of band 41 capability, too. That would be easy peasy. If they do not, then they are just being AT&T like stubborn or stupid. AJ

The taco cat is already available at that weird Mexican/Chinese hybrid restaurant in every city. AJ

Die, "unlimited" wireless data, die. You were not made for this world. AJ

Yep, you found me out. I joined S4GRU three years ago and bided my time through 13,000 posts -- just so I could finally make my LG G4 palindrome. Now, my only reason to live is the hope that "5G" will become a marketing term by the time the LG G5 is released. AJ

Also, the codename for the LG G4 4G GL has been revealed as "racecar." AJ

The latest rumor is that it will be called the LG G4 4G GL, and it will have screens both front and back so that you can use either side. AJ

I call the "other" web site TGIT. AJ

Yeah, it is not the same Qualcomm baseband. The Nexus 5 and Nexus 6 use the category 4 MDM9625 -- or its on die equivalent. The Sprint variant Galaxy S6 uses the category 6 MDM9635. Well, technically, they are now known as the Snapdragon X5 LTE and X7 LTE, respectively. But I doubt that the affinity for band 41 has much to do with the physical baseband chipset. Instead, it is likely a matter of different programming. AJ

Sprint Stork? AJ

From the FCC OET docs and my article, that is just about what we expected. Neither Galaxy S6 is going to be a strong performer with weak band 41 signal. That is just a physical impossibility because their band 41 uplink output is so meager. You can see in your example above that the handset was already slamming up against its 23 dBm conducted power limiter. AJ

Take a look at what can be done within the span of a week with a 1.3 MP flip phone camera almost a decade ago. http://ajshepherd.blogspot.com/ At least two or three of those shots are outstanding -- regardless of medium or technical limitations. That is because knowledge and skill are dependent upon the photographer. No smartphone camera specs are going to fix that. The specs are so similar that they are almost irrelevant -- except for maybe that godawful protruding lens Nokia thing. AJ

As a photographer with a film degree, I can improve your camera. Get a real camera. Learn the fundamentals of photography and optical physics. If you obsesss over smartphone camera specs, you suck. AJ