WiWavelength

Well, Judge, you will just have to wait an hour or two while I throw a few things up on The Wall and see what sticks. AJ

It is not bad. It is fine, just about what we expected. But Ron Burgundy got your attention, right? AJ

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Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention? I have some urgent and horrifying news. The Sprint variant HTC M8 has just hit the FCC OET this afternoon. We will try to have further info posted later this evening. AJ

If you still want a mint condition LG Optimus G, I have one that I used for a week for RF testing last summer. You can have it for a song. And just FYI everyone, we do not want to host numerous phone for sale posts. But as staff invests a lot of time and money for S4GRU research purposes, we get a little leeway in that regard. AJ

I can say that GCI display capability will not be added to the table here. But that is something you could discuss with mikejeep about adding to the SignalCheck thread. AJ

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I will add that I always admired the Fuji wide aspect ratio rangefinders: 6x9, even 6x17. Those were some expensive, specialized landscape cameras. AJ

Most medium format was 6x4.5 or 6x6. So, when you mentioned 6x7, I immediately thought of Pentax and Mamiya. I will accept all due credit for narrowing it down to the right two. AJ

The PCS/AWS-2 H block. AJ

Okay, we will split the difference -- Mamiya SLR. I just thought that most medium format shooters went Pentax for SLR, Mamiya for rangefinder. I used to shoot medium format 10-15 years ago, but I did so with a $200 TLR that I grabbed off eBay. AJ

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We have Sprint retail workers in the affected USCC area. As I recall, at least one said that USCC sub coming in to switch were some of the most sub prime credit customers that he had encountered. In other words, USCC was scraping the bottom of the barrel. A lot of the affected subs probably were not worth it to Sprint. AJ

Oh, come on. That sounds more like a typical wounded, emotional reaction to the disappearance of SVLTE than any reasoned analysis. You need to substantiate that before you make such a cockamamie accusation. It is not just a Sprint "BS" line -- it is an engineering line that single radio devices perform better. Now, one reason for that could be largely, even exclusively Sprint specific because Sprint is running CDMA2000 and LTE in the same PCS 1900 MHz band. Off the top of my head, I can think of no other operator in the world running CDMA2000 and LTE in the same frequency band. So, for SVLTE devices, that presents a filter challenge. Both of the two separate radio paths are transmitting/receiving at similar PCS frequencies, and they are only centimeters, even millimeters apart inside the handset. Keeping CDMA1X 1900 from interfering with LTE 1900 and vice versa becomes a challenge or a shortcoming of SVLTE devices. AJ

No, *228 is just an OTA PRL update method that some operators use. It does not affect the backend provisioning of the account, and that is the hangup for some users when switching devices. AJ

That is the intention, but it does not always work that way. Some of us have quirks in our accounts -- possibly because we have been through the full gamut of CDMA2000, WiMAX, and LTE -- such that we have to call in for assistance on every handset switch. For me, that means a call every 3-9 months, so it is not a big deal. But it would be a deal breaker for anyone who wants to switch twice a day. AJ

And the MSM8974 in the Nexus 5 is already a Category 4 baseband. AJ

If you need to switch handsets that often, this is nothing against you, but you are at least five standard deviations removed from the mean. Honestly, you probably will not be happy with Sprint. The online or over the phone swap is not always quick and easy. Doing that twice a day would probably drive you batty. So, you might be better served by sticking with a 3GPP centric provider. AJ

If you can swing all of them, I would suggest cranking out the following: 1X 850 1X 1900 1X 800 EV-DO 850 EV-DO 1900 EV-DO 800 eHRPD 850 eHRPD 1900 eHRPD 800 LTE 1900 LTE 800 TD-LTE 2600 Some of them, though, would just be contingencies, such as EV-DO 800. But those should cover the bases for native and domestic roaming Sprint usage. AJ

I see Deval. But I thought that he was interested in taking photos, not posing for them. AJ

Pentax SLR or Mamiya rangefinder? With the demise of optical printing, is there really much quality advantage to shooting large format any longer? I can understand doing so for Scheimpflug purposes, not to mention, just the photographic ritual of shooting with a view camera. I can also understand shooting 8x10 or larger for contact printing. But it seems that if the end result is going to be a digital print, a large format transparency/negative probably will not provide a much better scan than that of a medium format transparency/negative. AJ

We just so happen to have an artist's depiction of you out taking pictures... AJ

Yeah, they are shifting their portfolios to TMUS. AJ

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No, if say you have multiple Sprint handsets, just leave the SIMs seated -- as if they were embedded SIMs. You can switch freely among them at your online account, via chat, or over a different phone. You will typically need to do a profile update each time you switch, but that can be accomplished OTA on the handset, requiring only 30 seconds or so. AJ