WiWavelength

Why is there a pic of a Samsung faux leather wallet next to an HTC handset? AJ

Is that what she said? AJ

If it is a .com site with no puny little two letter foreign top level domain or directory, it is a US site. The UK can have their nancy boy .co.uk URLs. America, F**K Yeah! AJ

Everyone, it is now officially the HTC One max. So, get with the program. A huge handset requires an ironic lowercase name. AJ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR8A3T6sPzU AJ

What are you talking about? Have you not read the posts in this thread nor the specs posted at the HTC site? AJ

The headphone jack is going to be on the top. Pow! I'm psyched! All I'm saying is that they should have a priority line for people who already have the HTC One. AJ

Somewhat doubtful. Roaming partners would need to have band class 10 CDMA1X 800 on their devices, and that has not happened. AJ

No, the standard HTC site has the same info. http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-one-max/ AJ

No, not really. Band 41 is nearly 200 MHz in bandwidth. It encompasses both 2500 MHz and 2600 MHz. AJ

So, if this is a "knock on" feature to wake up the phone, does that mean you can knock up your handset? AJ

God has a special place for iPhones... AJ

Indeed, I keep my HTC One in my European carry all. I am a fancy boy. But it is not a purse! AJ

Well, I suggest that anyone potentially affected research these apps before using them. If a sub roaming abroad does not answer an incoming call, the call can get forwarded back to the US for voicemail. In such case, the sub can still be on the hook for international long distance and roaming airtime, as the call has been forwarded from the US to the foreign operator and then back to the US. AJ

As far as I know, Sprint will unlock its HTC One variant for international usage but not for domestic usage. US MCCs are blocked. Were you expecting some other result? AJ

I doubt that you are technically equipped to judge whether antennas are "pathetic." Regardless, those are omnidirectional antennas for defunct Nextel iDEN. They are irrelevant to the Sprint network. AJ

No, not 100 percent my opinion. I drew consensus from multiple opinions, including those of well known, respected tech writers. So, try again. AJ

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And here is confirmation -- in The Wall Street Journal, no less -- that T-Mobile will continue to let its GSM only network areas rot, while Sprint extends LTE to its entire network... http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/10/11/t-mobile-lte-target-smaller-than-competitors/ AJ

The headphone jack is going to be on the bottom. Pow! AJ

The issue with HTC handsets on Sprint LTE really seems to be their propensity to network reselect down to eHRPD. I do not believe it is truly an RF problem. So, if you are willing to put your HTC handset in CDMA1X/LTE mode, that takes the eHRPD reselection out of the equation, and you get much more LTE "coverage." AJ

Yes, "loose" the dogs of warranty... AJ

Many of the European operators grossly overpaid for their "3G" spectrum at the height of the tech bubble, circa 2000, and that left them strapped for capital the next several years. I will stand to be corrected, but my understanding is that few other operators besides T-Mobile USA have deployed DC-HSPA+. In many cases, overseas operators do not have two 5 MHz FDD adjacent spectrum blocks. AJ

I have Al Sharpton on the line. He says that you are a phone racist. AJ

Well, I counter that with my own rebuttal. I am no stranger to international travel. But I am far more apt to spend a few days in New Mexico than in Mexico, in Georgia than in Georgia -- the latter an inside joke for the few people anymore who actually know world geography. My point is that Sprint has strong domestic roaming agreements. In the US, a VZW, AT&T, or T-Mobile sub is more likely to have no voice or data access than is a Sprint sub. Take care of home first. Wireless isolationism is fine with me. In fact, we could use more of it -- the Eurasian centric 3GPP is a "big bag of hurt." And only a meager percentage of US wireless subs travel overseas. So, if some people need global roaming on a regular basis, they can afford international travel, which is a racket unto itself. They can afford to pay global roaming rates. If those few do not like that, then they can go somewhere else. Go to domestically challenged T-Mobile for all I care. AJ