jamesinclair

I don't understand why AT&T always gets such a bad rep. I was an AT&T iPhone/BlackBerry customer in SW Florida for 2 years- never had a dropped call, fast, consistent data, and more than adequate customer service.

 

The only reason I left was because I was tired of paying $100 every month for capped data.

Im a Sprint customer because AT&T was crap every day.

Well that's exactly what I'm saying. This is a $300-ish phone, not a $550 phone. Perhaps we're seeing the "made in America" price, as opposed to cheap overseas labor?

Yup, if youre going to sell us last years phone, then use last years price.

Tell me how you really feel

 

The only thing I'm disappointed in is the price. $199 + 2yr. So ~$550.

Only thing? Thats sort of important though?

You can get better phones for cheaper. With removable batteries, wireless charging and expandable memory. Higher res screens, and faster processors. For cheaper.

This phone offers absolutly nothing.

Is it even tri-band at Sprint? Im going to guess not.

Holy crap the phone is a fail.

What a waste of time

Alas the "market" train left the station when AT&T started advertising having 4G (at the time, and probably still today, mostly HSDPA) in "2000 more cities and towns" than Verizon's LTE.

Right but AT&T also said they had the fewest dropped calls.

Nothing they say should be taken as a fact

I love reading all the news articles that make it seem as if the LTE coverage went from 0% to 100% as Sprint flips a switch when they send out the press release.

Rather than the LTE coverage going from 52% to 53%. in the city.

Makes you wonder how much else they get so wrong

Twist: All those markets have LTE on 2500, so theyre actually 100% covered but only 10 people in the country can actually use it.

I wouldn't quite characterize them as agreements.  Sprint owns those brands.  But it's better to refer to them as Sprint's Virgin and Boost customers who still utilize the WiMax network.  However, Clearwire does have other third party WiMax contracts.  FreedomPop comes to mind first.

 

Robert

Right, should have added "customers" at the end there

Plenty of people are still using wimax, so much that any discussion of shutting down shouldnt be relevant for another year.

I wouldn't think so either, James; unless our new masters in Japan are in a rush to catch up with the Evil Axis; they might

gamble with a few po'd wimax consumers like myself if they thought it would shave a year off the true potential of NV;

I would consider myself collateral damage in this as I use wimax every day

Its not just sprint customers, they also have agreements with virgin and boost.

Folks, wimax isnt going away any time soon.

It'd be nice to have triband. But then I dont feel like waiting and it ending up be just a rumor and missing out on a great deal since I dont got Money to pay for 2 phones at upgrade retail price. Then theres the chance of the phone having problems being an early adapter of the new technology. Then not bash on sprint or anything but with how long it took them to just put LTE in parts of Little Rock, I highly doubt LTE on 800mhz rollout will be anything but fast.  

Im waiting for the LG announcement to see if I want their stuff or just do as you and jump into a cheap GS4

First 800 in the market!

Now where any of us probably ever are, but sort of makes sense to want to extend coverage in that mountain area.

is there anyway for sensorly to separate mapping for 800mhz to show where that is popping up, that would be great to see on the map how the coverage is different from the pcs band

Sensorly voice mapping includes roaming....

So only with LTE 800 will we be able to see the real network

Alaska Communications 

 

http://www.alaskacommunications.com/Online-Care/Service-Coverage.aspx

I notice they have both 4G LTE and 4G...

Theyre CDMA, so whats the non-lte? Wimax?

Sprint has native service in Alaska, but I doubt it'll be converted to LTE.

I thought it was fake-native, ie, Shentel

Yeah. I missed that. The west side of the financial district has no covergae and there are several small pockets through out Manhattan. What is puzziling though is that there are several pockets in both the Bronx and Brooklyn with brooklyn having some sizable gaps in coverage but they are still launching those two boroughs but not Manhattan.

It would make no sense to launch Manhattan with no coverage in the financial district

It's also worth noting that Verizon doesn't have any native EVDO or 1x in Alaska, just LTE. I don't know if the same is true for AT&T.

Does ANYBODY have native coverage in Alaska?

Sprint doesnt. Verizon doesnt, but theyre building it. I dont see why AT&T and tomobile would.

So they're going to launch Philly with 23% LTE? makes no sense LTE coverage for the most part is scarce and I have been having issues with them turning off LTE for a few days then turning it back on...

I think itll do more harm then good.

"LTE LAUNCHED AND IT NEVER EVEN WORKS!!!! Ive been waiting twelve years and now that LTE is here you can barely get it anywhere!!11"

LG awhile back said they were going to go after the big shot, Samsung by offering high end devices on carriers. This LG G2 is supposedly going to be equipped with the monster snapdragon 800 CPU and Triband LTE connectivity.

Well, do they have a track record or is this their first attemp at the big leagues?

Hm, I was 99% sure my next phone would be the GS4....

Is this something I should be paying attention to? I only know LG as a mid/low end phone maker. You know, like the LG Cosmo 2.

I approve of this thread

Yeah, that was a major bummer not to be to Sensorly map. And since Clearwire LTE has a different network ID, it would probably not appear even if it was on a smartphone until Sensorly adds it as a Sprint LTE network in their database.

 

Robert from Note 2 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

If theres a different netowkr ID, it WOULD be easy for sensorly to have it be mapped into a new color, yes?

Unless you are the type that buys phones out of contract (not me, I only upgrade every 2 years) I would suck it up and wait until oct/nov phones to come out to upgrade.  While you might have those 2 months of pleasure of 1900 MHz LTE, you are going to regret not waiting 2 more months for deep building penetration 800 LTE and blazing fast 2500 LTE (although in Fresno that is going to be awhile.  I am fairly shocked that given the GS2 got the Jelly Bean upgrade I would be able to hang on for another 2 months.  Besides doesn't Fresno not have that much LTE coverage so how much LTE are you going to really experience?  Hopefully by the Fall there should be more LTE in the Lower Central Valley area.

 

I have the Photon and I am stuck on Gingerbread. That is such a struggle to wait to upgrade my phone especially when my tablet is running Jelly Bean.  I have been able to upgrade since June and trust me I know its hard to wait until the Fall to upgrade.  The current GS4 being only single band LTE didn't help or else I might have considered upgrading already.  However because of this additional wait I have had a change of heart  and am now gunning for the Note 3 as my phone of choice.

Im not in Fresno right now, Im in the central jersey market.

LTE is 2 miles away, but expanding without rhyme or reason (it's been within 5 miles for a year), wimax is strong and reliable here.

I probably wont be back to Fresno until December, which offers neither.

My GS2 has bad battery and enjoys turning itself off randomly at least once a week. Not so good when its my alarm and decides to so at at night - even when plugged in.

My dad has the photon. The lack of android update has been enough to ensure this family won't be purchasing any Motorolla product in the future.

We are you looking for in a phone?  Screen size, LTE capability, brand?

My ideal phone is the GS4 Active, but it looks like Sprint wont be getting it.

So I want the GS4 with triband.

Upgrade date is August 1.

Con of upgrading on that day:

-No triband

-Lose my 4G coverage

Pro

-Get to throw GS2 in front of a truck*

- Start the 20 month upgrade clock

*will keep it in drawer as backup, but you know what I mean.

Just hold out for a triband phone now. They're coming soon.

Thats the thing, does soon mean August 15.......or black friday?

I want to dump my galaxy 2 into a volcano.

No wonder tmobile needs so many towers if thats what they deploy...