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You live in Buffalo, which is fully inside the Canadian segment of the IBEZ. That means no SMR 800 MHz for you, anyway. Sprint cannot deploy CDMA1X 800 nor LTE 800 where it might interfere with Canadian operations. AJ

That is not a Field Trial.apk engineering screen. That is the Testing.apk menu. And, congratulations, you may have just disabled automatic band selection on your EVO LTE until you do a full factory reset. We have posted many times in many other threads not to mess with that band selection menu unless you know fully what you are doing. Others have learned the hard way; you may have, too. AJ

On the other hand, remember when the LG Optimus G aka Eclipse passed through the FCC OET? I published the article on The Wall straight away. Now, remember when the Optimus G was actually released? http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-317-updated-lg-eclipse-4g-casts-an-early-shadow/ AJ

Your "wut???" instead of "what???" sums up the issue, precisely. AJ

No, that is not a fair comparison. Give a single, isolated EDGE sector a full 5 MHz FDD. Then, the max aggregate data rate for eight time slots per channel across 25 channels is 12 Mbps. That is a highly unlikely max in the real world, but 21 Mbps out of a single W-CDMA carrier is in the same boat. AJ

What do you think the chances are that the incentive auction clears anything close to that much UHF spectrum? Uh... AJ

VoLTE would not be "horrible" on PCS or even BRS/EBS. It would just have to be used under the right signal conditions. That might limit it on PCS or BRS/EBS to a smaller fraction of the cell radius, but that is fine. You are not going to be spending all the time on one band. Rather, the network is going to put you where you need to be. And, in a multi band network, that means close in users on high band, middle cell users on mid band, and cell edge users on low band. AJ

Hey, do not shortchange the new Nexus 7. It is fully 7.02 inches. And when measuring e-penis size, we always round up to the next whole integer. AJ

Seemingly, no one has provided any substantive evidence that Qualcomm is increasing CDMA2000 prices. Right now, it is just an idea, not a reality. And since Qualcomm owns the vast majority of CDMA2000 intellectual property, it might as well milk those patents for every last dollar rather than price CDMA2000 users out of the market. AJ

Yet, years later, Bell and Telus CDMA2000 coverage is still broader than that of W-CDMA. I just pulled these national coverage images from the Telus web site: CDMA2000: W-CDMA: I think it rather embarrassing how Bell and Telus bought the GSM side's bill of goods. Bell and Telus wanted the iPhone to compete with Rogers, so they went for the W-CDMA overlay. But if they had waited a little bit longer, they could have had a CDMA2000 iPhone. And the roaming revenue from the Vancouver Winter Olympics was so short lived as to not be worth the trouble. Now, they have had to invest years and millions, if not billions into the W-CDMA overlay, which has not yet reached CDMA2000 level of coverage breadth. And LTE is quickly usurping W-CDMA in importance. Basically, they jumped the gun. Oh well, I guess all of that just gives me nice ammo to make fun of Bell and Telus... AJ

But its reputation has since been sullied by Cam Newton. AJ

And it may not matter. The point of W-CDMA+ seems to be to free up more data capacity within a given W-CDMA carrier. But who is going to be using W-CDMA based HSPA+ for data a few years from now? Outside of third world countries, most all will have moved on to LTE. So, W-CDMA+ will then be for added voice capacity? Well, who actually talks on the phone that much anymore? Not me. I often go a month without using a single minute of voice airtime. Thus, in many markets, a single W-CDMA carrier -- unloaded of nearly all of its data that has gone over to LTE -- may be enough voice capacity for present day usage. AJ

Not really. W-CDMA+ does not shrink down the existing 5 MHz FDD bandwidth of a W-CDMA carrier. Rather, it just uses some radio link improvements and a much lower bit rate (i.e. likely lower quality) codec to free up added capacity in that same 5 MHz FDD. AJ

You also have to take into account that the FCC did not formally approve broadband (>25 kHz bandwidth) operations in SMR 800 MHz until early last summer. Apple released iPhone 5 about 100 days later, meaning that the design and specs were probably already locked in by that point. AJ

Oh, a phone that size would crush a mite. AJ

Cellular 850 MHz and SMR 800 MHz have different FCC rules. AJ

This is what I am calling T-Mobile's supposed "4x2 MIMO." It appears to be just 2x2 MIMO with a second antenna set for spatial diversity. MIMO should refer to only spatial channels that actually carry distinct traffic. AJ

Why would Apple do so? No other devices at the time were including band 26. No other devices. Figure it out. Put two and two together. AJ

Well, what size imaginary tablet are you obviously holding in your crazy avatar pic? AJ

No device included band 26 LTE 800 until last week. You cannot single out iPhone 5 in that regard. AJ

I am just not buying it, Neal. You honestly need to produce some solid evidence backed by accepted numbers to get this to stick. Economy of scale quickly reaches a point of diminishing returns, so 50 million is much different from 5 million but not so different from 500 million. Thus, if OEMs have issue producing the appropriate 3GPP2 band class devices for a carrier the size Sprint, they deserve to be told to go screw themselves. AJ

The two Netgear tri band LTE devices for Sprint are basically Sierra Wireless tech wrapped in Netgear clothing. They were in development before Netgear completed its acquisition of Sierra. AJ

This is the 16 GB Wi-Fi only variant. Plus, I doubt that there will be a Sprint LTE variant. I am on my third tablet now, and none of them have had cellular connectivity. I cannot justify that use case -- at least, not yet. AJ

Yes. I have a bestbuy.com preorder and received an e-mail early this morning that its date had been upped to today. Then, I checked in store availability and saw that my local Best Buy has them in stock. So, I decided to jump my preorder, drive down to Best Buy, and see if I could really pick one up in person today. Success. AJ

As of three minutes ago, I have one in hand. AJ