JohnHovah

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As it stands for most sprint-uh customers living in a pre-NV footprint, I seriously doubt they could limit speeds any further. And if they did, there would be no redeeming quality at all

nope, you will just be another number on the balance sheet, except it will be in japanese now

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Optimistically, yes - considering how he has been able to turn Sprint around and set it in more or less the right direction and headed toward a cash positive future in a few years. I was waiting for an equity stake announcement to shore up Sprint's short term financials to get them through NV faster and help with potential future buyouts. The T-Mobile rumor has abounded for quite some time and it seems that Softbank may have found a way around regulatory hurdles through majority ownership of Sprint in pursuing the deal again. Realistically, it could go either way as they may have some other thoughts on where they want sprint to head. If they do let Dan go in his current capacity, I'm sure he will receive a hefty severance or if stepping down as Chairman may stay on the board with a sizable stock option (but that is probably more on the optimistic side) but if you want to play worst case scenario, we may see another large-scale catastrophe or series of minor events that cumulatively destroy the future of softbank/sprint. Perhaps Japanese bank implosion or large-scale global financial meltdown, a nuclear disaster or attack, tsunamis, earthquakes, ww3, civil war in the US, alien invasions or even Godzilla for crying out loud. {sarcasm}. Either way it will be an amazing thing to behold. Whether that is an amazing and spectacular tragedy remains largely to be seen, but I'm leaning more towards the positive side of things and am glad they inked out all of the fine print, crossed their "t's"and dotted their "i's". The official announcement has taken (most) everyone by surprise, but with hindsight being 20-20 you can see where all of the pieces fit into place and how all of the players on the stage acted the part very well. Whether Sprint, Dan, T-Mobile, DT, Softbank or the rest, you can now put the pieces together fairly easily. I don't believe there was any coincidence that: 1. T-Mobile made out with a nice chunk of change from the failed merger (which was never going to pass regulatory scrutiny anyway) 2. T-Mobile acquired a nice chunk of spectrum 3. Sprint lobbied against the doomed merger/buyout citing regulatory concerns 4. Softbank failed at their initial buyout of US carriers 5. D-T has been pursuing an exit strategy in various ways which clearly were to fail 6. Sprint has kept clearwire on life support but managed to put spectrum to use so it would not be lost while maintaining majority control of the company but not much of the liabilty. My post is getting a little long winded but there are countless pieces that fell in to place at the right times all around. Most of this was more or less smoke and mirrors to consolidate spectrum holdings while keeping the big 2 from cannibalizing all of the 4th and lower tier carriers and their respective customers and spectrum holdings. On the note of name change. Likely there will be some change but not too major. (softsprint? j/k) Perhaps they will just change the name to NOW and drop the "Now Network " mantra/slogan completely for something pertaining to the future

It usually does, except for pop culture, in which case Japan is generally 3 decades behind on what American audience want

D-Day for sure

Thanks Robert, this thread got buried for me, you can delete my duplicate

I use the sd card in the dock for my personal user loaded content, and everything else eats up the internal memory and microsd in the tablet. On a positive note, if you have digital/ultraviolet copies of movies that are linked to uvvu/flixster, the cached movies and media will be placed on the SD card. Flixster currently takes up 1.8gbs of space overall: 1.79gbs of it on sd (only 2 movies cached; prometheus-790mb, sherlock holmes-1gb,

sorry guys, I just updated my post above. Most App data will store to external memory but cached content will not. also on an aside, there are three types of memory available in 4.0+ Device Data USB Storage (also part of the onboard device memory) SD Card (external obviously Let me give you one example Renaissance THD takes up 797MB's total and only 433MB's are loaded to the SD Card Bard's Tale takes up 3.35gbs total but they have updated it so that only 35megs of internal storage are used (PHEW!) Google Play Magazines currently takes up 639MB's with only 4 magazines on the device at the moment (all of which is on the device and not sd card) Google Play Music currently takes up 2.09GB's (all of which is on the device and not sd card) Google Play Movies eats up over 3GBs with one movie and 2 tv shows on the device

Very few applications can take advantage of these gingerbread features, I have a fully loaded 32gb transformer with 2 64gbs microsd class 10 cards in it. one in the dock and one in the tablet. I can speak from experience that not many of these applications can be moved at all and i believe the few that can seem to be those optimized for earlier versions of Android. Some apps utilize the proper coding to load their extra data to a card if available, but given that there exists many devices without any external user loadable memory they seemed to be designed in a one-size-fits all manner one way or the other It appears that most apps are now trying to store their additional data on SD Cards. (finally) where the problem will still lie, is cached content, I will check my devices and see if recent software updates have addressed the issue yet. Play movies/tv/books stored cached content on the device and i was receiving low space errors on my 32gb transformer with its added 128gbs of microsd (64gbx2) UPDATE : Confirmed - Cached media content still reside solely on the device regardless of an external microsd, therefore you will need to remove tv shows, movies, etc from the device to make that space available again. So, yes, a tablet that travels will need to have more onboard storage available so that a few movies, magazines or TV shows won't eat up all of your usable space

If you are running a recent version of Android, you cannot.

adding microsd cards is not the problem here. I have no problem doing that to add my own content. My main point here is that the minor amount of usable space cuts down on the number of applications, or cached content from the play store you can reasonably place on a device. Perhaps Google will address this at a later point in time, but as it stands now, most content and app data cannot be forced onto the sd card in Android versions 4.0 and higher

Perhaps I have not been clear. Android 4.0 and up do not have that option available to them as Google has done away with it.

I too have much invested in superior A/V equipment but that does not help when travelling by plane, train or automobile. Not everyone has this problem. I bought my 2 year old nephew a tablet and he sure can benefit from having a lot at his fingertips to learn or occupy his time. The same goes for several of my older family members (grandparents, non tech savvy.) the cloud is not available everywhere all of the time. And in my particular case I prefer to cache play movies/books/tv shows for those times I will be travelling and not have the best connection for streaming. Anyone who has ever used wifi on a plane would probably agree.

I just saw this on Android Police This is Sprint's first LTE-powered tablet, and packs a bit of a spec boost over the Wi-Fi model: 10.1" 1280x800 display 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon MSM8960 1GB RAM 8GB built-in storage, microSD card slot 3MP rear shooter, VGA front camera 10.1 inches x 6.9 inches x 0.38 inches, 1.29 lbs. Android 4.0 Like most other recent device announcements, there's no word on pricing or availability, only that it "will be announced at a later date." Cool. If this was a Galaxy Note 2 10.1 LTE I may be jumping for joy and screaming SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY Seriously though, only 8GB's on a tablet running ICS+ ! that leaves about 5.8 gbs of usable space??? that is one decent game and maybe one or two downloaded/cached movies or tv shows before you start hitting low space errors. What are everyone's thoughts on this? Full Source Link http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/10/09/samsung-galaxy-tab-2-10-1-lte-making-its-way-to-sprint-in-the-near-future/

i've fallen (and i can't get up)

Thanks for the clarification. I understand that a lot of PRL's are device specific since each has different frequency capabilities