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As long as you're using a stock-ish ROM (TouchWiz on Samsung, Sense on HTC, etc.), there is a way to do these things on basically every phone I've owned. They hide these menus behind dialer codes so no regular user has access to them. You look like you have an Epic 4G Touch. Just try this on the Stock ROM: open your dialer, then type in ##3282#. When you type in the last pound sign, you're taken to a menu that no normal user would know about.

Wow... talk about a picky reviewer, but to each, his own opinion. I'm a flashaholic on my GS3, so I tend to adapt to different UI setups pretty easily. I mean... There was seriously a serious paragraph on how the font looks different on the G2 vs. the Nexus 4. Wow, really?

Well... we now have 2 Samsung devices with Triband confirmed - the GS4 Mini, and the Galaxy Mega 6.3. I wonder if those are the two your source was referring to.

Can you rephrase your question a little bit? What do you mean "will those still play"? I can't remember off the top of my head, but from what I know, you can pause the youtube video or HTML 5 video from a browser, hit home, and then when you go back, you can unpause the video from where you left off. Or do you mean, will the video still play in the background, even though you hit the home button (sound only since the screen is obviously taken up by the home screen)? I also can't remember off the top of my head, and since I my memory has it both working and not working my memory is obviously fuzzy and I don't know which is the truth . I might try it later to see.

Since we don't know what KitKat (Android 4.4) will bring to the table, we really don't know if they'll have an equivalent to MultiWindow/QSlide or not. I've never seriously used the MultiWindow feature on my Galaxy S3, so I actually have no desire for it on something like stock Android. If you really need such a feature, just get a G2 or wait for a galaxy S 5 or the Note 3 to come out. I highly doubt they'll implement something like that on stock Android for now, though quick toggles became a native Android feature as of 4.2, so you never know until it's out.

With all the reviews going up from Engadget, Anandtech, and some Youtube reviews, I'm actually convinced that this will be my next phone. As I said in a previous post, I'm usually not into the whole camera part of smartphones, so the Nexus 5 would usually suffice, but the OIS, 1080p 60 fps recording, and the purported battery life on this phone are just too good to pass up. If LG's UI doesn't slow down the UI as much as TouchWiz does, I actually couldn't care less if the icons were bright and colorful so I may not even need to go AOSP for that extra smoothness, and so far, everything I've seen seems to indicate that is the case. Add Triband compatibility to that, and I think I'll definitely be happy with this phone.

I'm not expert on this, and this could be a long shot, but that black square looks like it could be an IR blaster.

I completely understand all of this, and I completely agree. However, that didn't stop them from officially announcing Tri-band for their hotspots: http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-releases/get-ready-to-experience-two-of-the-first-tri-band-4g-lte-devices-from-sprint--netgear-zing-mobile-hotspot-and-netgear-usb-modem--available-july-19.htm

I'm saying there isn't a press release from Sprint advertising Triband, and I want there to be one.

To me, as long as the G2 comes out before December, I'll probably be picking it up day of my upgrade. The October pre-order date is nice for anyone who has an upgrade available already. It's not like LTE 800 and LTE 2600 is everywhere right now anyway, and the CM and Slimrom teams are working hard on bringing 4.3 to the GS3 anyway, so I still have a lot to keep me entertained. In addition, I'm surprised there's still no mention of Tri-band LTE in this LG G2 specific press release. I know we have the FCC docs backing us up, but I hope Sprint also announces it soon (probably with the finalized release date).

Woah... I've never been a big backer for amazing camera on a smartphone, but as someone who loves 60 fps in video games, (and as one of the few who enjoyed the 48 fps in the Hobbit), I am thoroughly impressed by the 1080p60 recording capabilities of the phone. I was originally set on the Nexus 5, but 1080p60 recording may convince me to pick this up instead. But man... file sizes are going to be huge. The sample video on Anandtech has the 60 fps video at 93.8 MB for 26 seconds of footage, which is around 3.6 MB/s. Holy crap. That's not even streamable as my home ISP (AT&T Uverse) maxes out at 20 Mbps or around 2.5 MB/s.

I want to say yes, but I've never actually done one or never have seen the need to do one. The only time I ever got a phone at launch was for the Evo 4G. I remember I was waiting for a good smartphone on Sprint, and when the Supersonic (Evo 4G) was announced, I was so excited, I lined up the night before at 4 AM and I was 10th in line to get it. The next day, my girlfriend walked into a Sprint store and bought her own Evo, and I was like "Why did I wake up at 4 AM?" Ever since then, I have actually never lined up, or bought a phone during launch day. They seem to stock these phones pretty well, and with my upgrade being in December, I don't think I'll be making the launch day of any of these Triband phones anyway.

Overall, I agree with you. There's so many bad things that Sprint is doing compared to your usage and expectations. That's why I'm saying go ahead and jump ship. I'm not even saying it as a negative thing. You won't regret jumping ship from Sprint it sounds like. As for the email statement, yes I have gotten an email while on a call. An important email, not so much. Again, you need to realize we have different priorities. I'm a firmware engineer, so any important emails I see immediately on my second monitor at work. But also to your statement "You are paying for service now, not for service in 2 years." To each his own. That's exactly how you see it, so go ahead and jump ship. However, my priorities are different than yours, so I'm willing to have the extra patience to see if this Triband thing is as good as they make it out to be. If it's not as good as they say, then I'll be jumping ship too. As you said in another post, they are a company, not my mother. I have no loyalty to them; heck, I'm even trying to convince you to leave. You don't have the patience to wait, and that's not a bad thing at all. It just means you're tired of waiting, and it's ok to be dissatisfied with them. As I've been saying, just leave Sprint. I lead a different life than you, so Sprint suffices in my lifestyle. For you, it sounds like your life will be so much better without Sprint. I know your getting $50 a month from them, but when you explain to us how much pain and suffering they are causing you, is that $50 really worth it?

Man... I kind of wish Sprint's marketing department would at least pump up the Tri-band capabilities of this phone. Those of us here already know that this phone is going to have Tri-band, and it's not like Sprint hasn't already announced their Tri-band network beforehand (http://newsroom.sprint.com/news-releases/get-ready-to-experience-two-of-the-first-tri-band-4g-lte-devices-from-sprint--netgear-zing-mobile-hotspot-and-netgear-usb-modem--available-july-19.htm). I don't even care if the release date of this phone is in November, at least they should hype it up. Maybe they'll announce the G2, GS4 Mini, and possibly the Note 3 all at once similar to what they did with their mobile hotspots.

Just curious, why stay on Sprint then, if they haven't been treating you well? You do have the freedom to change carriers. I also personally am more excited about Triband more than anything else. I have never relied on the SVDO capabilities on my GS3, but I can see where you're coming from. If Sprint is missing something that is absolutely necessary to you, why not leave them? I was also ready to jump ship from Sprint since they have such a crap signal where I work, but after hearing about Triband LTE and doing some research on it, I'm willing to stay for another 2-year contract to see if that 800 MHz really helps where I work. And if it still doesn't work out, I'm not afraid to jump ship to Verizon/AT&T/T-Mobile just to get a better signal at work.

It does look like a GS4 Mini: http://gfxbench.com/device.jsp?benchmark=gfx27&D=Samsung+SPH-L520&testgroup=system That resolution of 960 x 540 basically gives it away.

So... LG G2, Note 3... HTC, your move. Glad that we are getting nice Tri-band options. I might be leaning towards the Note 3 more than the G2, though, purely from the fact that this phone is more likely to get *official* CyanogenMod support than the G2 (just judging from the Note 2 and Optimus G beforehand). I absolutely hate TouchWiz, but Samsung (with Qualcomm) devices get such good dev community support. That was the main reason I ditched the Epic 4G Touch for a Galaxy S 3 in the middle of my contract. That 5.7 inch screen size though... There doesn't seem to be a perfect device for me yet.

I tend to have decent LTE (also around 10 Mbps) in Garden Grove, Westminster, and Santa Ana, and I also have no luck in the Tustin/Irvine area. I work in Irvine, pretty close to JW Airport, and I get spotty LTE in our parking structure, but I would definitely say it's not reliable yet.

I stand corrected. I do remember the S4 getting Snapdragon 800. Hopefully it comes to the US, though I was kind of trying to get away from Samsung and TouchWiz. As for the G2 being set for a November launch, that Handset Update list doesn't mention the HTC One Max or Galaxy Note 3 either, so it's still technically up in the air which handset comes out first. That list also only has dates until 9/13, so the second half of September and all of October is also up in the air. I'm not saying your friend is wrong.. He could be right for all I know. I'm just saying the second half of September and later is still not set in stone.

Even if there were other triband devices, the rumored phones with Snapdragon 800 are the HTC One Max and Galaxy Note 3, which are going to be humongous phones. The G2 is going to be the absolute largest phone I would ever consider, so I would still probably wait for the G2 to be out even if the Note 3 and One Max were out already. I know other people would probably consider those phones, but they are definitely not options to me.

My opinion of this 24 bit / 192 kHz sound is that it is all just a marketing ploy, and is definitely nothing that really matters. Firstly, For the "uncompressed" comment, who carries around 16 bit / 44.1 kHz WAV files in their music players today in the first place? I certainly don't. Who's going to carry around 24 bit 192 kHz WAV files in the future? Probably only the crazy audiophiles out there. Secondly, that exact article you linked in your post is correct. Even if you compressed the 24 bit / 192 kHz sound file into something like FLAC or ALAC to save space, it still doesn't matter because anything above 20 kHz is pointless to our ears. There's no reason in my opinion to go above 44.1 kHz because sampling sound at 44.1 KHz gives you a max sound wave frequency of 22 kHz, more than enough to satisfy the human ear. As this guy says in his comment: "The 'visual equivalent' to 192kHz sounds would be recording colours outside the human range. Like recording also infra-reds, microwaves, ultraviolets, and X-Rays. Things that can't never been seen, because human lack the corresponding apparatus." -http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/03/06/0048259/why-distributing-music-as-24-bit192khz-downloads-is-pointless In the end, does it really matter? Not really. I'll be putting in my Google Play Music library on whatever phone I have, and the source files are maximum 320 kbps mp3 files that were originally converted from 16 bit / 44.1 kHz CD or WAV files anyway. So yes, 24 bit 192 kHz is a pointless marketing ploy. But it's not really a deal breaker in my opinion either. My mp3s will probably sound just as good on the G2 as it does on my GS3. For me, I'm still up in the air for whether to get the G2 or not. I'm tired of TouchWiz slowing down Android interface, so I'm trying to jump ship to either the G2, or whatever the next HTC flagship will be, hopefully with triband LTE or it becomes the G2 for sure. I was an HTC EVO owner and Sense back then was even more horrendous than TouchWiz, but with the HTC One, Sense has become so much smoother, so I'll be willing to go there. I have yet to use LG's UI, so we'll see how the reviews are when they're up.

Wow... I was completely ignoring LG news until I saw a comment on another website about the LG G2 being the first phone with tri-band LTE support. A little Google searching, and here I am. I am actually excited for this phone now. Hopefully this has an ulocked bootloader out the door, since that was partially what deterred me from getting the Optimus G in the first place, but either way, I'll be keeping my eye on this phone.