JohnHovah

In Masayoshi's latest move, he is pulling a Captain Howdy of his own to become a major shareholder in his own right. For this I will applaud the man, he was always smart about his investments while keeping his loyal present and future customers a part of his plans. Charlie not so much. There are absolutely no synergies to be had in an overextended and poorly financed Dish/Sprint deal; whether we are talking spectrum, debt loads, or wanting to hijack Sprint's already taxed airwaves for some pie-in-the-sky video on demand service. We as the customers don't want that. We don't want an over-leveraged company that has no plans for moving the company forward or remotely making good on the present overhaul that is slowly benefiting us all and will carry Sprint into a prosperous future, to become a major competitor, the likes of which VZ and AT&T have never seen. From an investment standpoint nobody with half a brain wants an over-leveraged firm swimming in, nay choking on obscene amounts of debt and resultant debt service while stagnating any future growth potential on the ARPU end, on profit, on margins or any other financial metric you want to throw at it. If you thought Sprint was hungry/thirsty before, you haven't seen anything yet! This will force hardcore customers to leave as well as those tenacious few who are holding on because they see the bright future Sprint has been headed toward. If it's Charlie's game you can almost guarantee several things from both a customer and investor standpoint: 1. a major lack of faith in the brand itself 2, the massive fallout that will occur when large quantities of fed up customers leave because of a lack of investment/advancement/progress in network architecture, quality and reach save for some bullshit bundled add-on for a service that most mainstreamers do not want. 3. The added and much expected (read: higher, more costly, and "premium") price of service increases will push churn through the roof. Everyone loses in that eventuality especially any greedy investors who will not be able to offload their stock fast enough before an inevitable mass market crash. And for those who really don't understand Ergen's psychology or even business practice history, let me make this abundantly clear; No matter what rose-colored glasses Charlie has put on your faces at any point in time, a "real" and "acceptable" and "fully-funded" and "rational" and "substantial" deal with tangible benefits for both customers and investors was never in the cards. He made his play early on and on multiple occasions (years ago) and his megalomaniac need to control all things eventually forced Sprint to shun any partnership deals shortly after jump. If anyone ever had any hope for a successful joint venture or partnership between some ass-backward triumvirate of telecom-orgy-love between Hesse/Son/Ergen at any point in the past or the future without taking into account the vanity, hunger and desire or need for absolute control on the Ergen side of ANY equation, I feel truly sorry for you. ///END RANT

a custom limited edition s4gru rom with some weird mutation of sensorly and rootmetrics baked in at the lowest level?

Just NO. If Captain Howdy screws us I can see a mass customer exodus from Sprint as many have hung in for a very long time knowing that things have been getting better and were soon to payoff in a big way. The investors would be screwed as well, since the company would tank under the stranglehold of both charlie's iron fist and the massively over-leveraged debt. lose-lose here. Any idiot who has been trying to eek out an extra dollar in this ridiculous fiasco certainly better realize that even they probably won't be able to get out at a premium price before the entire ship sinks. Charlie is the iceberg that will sink the GD titanic that is Sprint. Why are we letting the idiots steer the ship straight for it?

I prefer to make my own pulled pork in the smoker. but if i get back down south, i will try it out

train spotting

The premium purchase price is to head off the greedy ones who wish to artificially inflate the stock prices in order to claim they getting screwed over in a deal (think clearwire here) I move to have Charlie removed from the board due to a loss of faith in his leadership and ability to responsibly carry out his duties given his (pending) mental health conditions. LOL

You might have a bad app. Mine will last days on end in the off chance i am using some other device and hardly touch it. There are a few apps that can help identify what services or apps are draining your battery so quickly, of course it could also be a bad battery.

I think I have come up with a great compromise. Let's have Softbank purchase both Sprint and Dish ($17.5b current market cap) for a combined $39B ($21.5b for Sprint and $17.5b for Dish) and then send old Captain Howdy packing his bags for good as CEO and Chairman while having his shares bought out from under him.

I always carry a spare battery in the off chance I kill mine. It seems to only be good for about 6.5 hours of screen on time, which is very heavy usage (according to people who are not me ) compared to other devices though, this battery is nothing short of amazing. I also have a gorilla gadgets battery backup case in the off chance I run both batteries into the ground. I suppose I will be putting that to the test on my upcoming trip.

boom box

Congrats.. the Note 2 is an awesome device that can't be beat! (until the note 3 or moto-x come out ) Enjoy your endless customizations and tweaking!!... Of course you could always go the "commercial route" and switch to "easy mode" (just doublechecked mine to see if that is still a thing) but, meh I would say try not to lose sleep and worry about it tomorrow but I know the feeling when playing with new toys... just can't put them down! (of course i'm one to talk.... looking over flight options for my july ny trip. did you know tickets can be anywhere from 1-4k? oddly the flights that are longer due to multiple layovers/connections are more expensive. wtf )

between t-mobile and metro it is highly likely. Sprint also had 10's of thousands on the Nextel side but are not keeping all of their towers.

mashed potatoes

Although sensorly separates sprint 3g, wimax and lte into separate mappings. it would be nice if HSPA+ could be easily differentiated as I always find myself making the same comparisons.

The old evo 4g is WiMax only so you won't see any 4g LTE. If your location is correct in your profile, you probably have Wimax in your area. I would recommend a full factory flash ruu to include radio if you know how to do that. a quick google search should yield some easy executable fixes (so long as you have the proper drivers on your computer.

If it happens on July 16th, I'll consider it my birthday present!! You hear me FCC???!

All that is missing is some derogatory remarks and pejorative terms. I'm waiting for Captain Howdy to slip in a dirty jap, commie bastard spy or began ranting about infamy and pearl harbor.

kiss of death

I'm sure that there will always be a usage scenario that necessitates these change. On a sad sidenote, clearly the porn industry has been instrumental in pushing forward the internets growth... can anyone say POV p@rn via google glass. It may not be Johnny Nuemonic status yet, but more and more data is pushed to and from our devices, whether handheld or not, each and every day.

Sprint (S) raises its offer for Clearwire (CLWR) to $3.40/share ahead of today's shareholder... Tuesday, May 21, 9:09 AM ET Sprint (S) raises its offer for Clearwire (CLWR) to $3.40/share ahead of today's shareholder vote on a $2.97/share offer, which was widely expected to be shot down. The revised offer, which trumps Dish's (DISH) $3.30/share bid and has been sent to Clearwire's board for review, is said to have the support of Comcast, Intel, and Bright House, who collectively own 26% of Clearwire shares not held by Sprint. Nonetheless, Clearwire +6.1% to $3.46, above the offer price. Sprint +1.1%.