chappo2000

Yeah, I think its unnecessary as well, definitely overkill.  No way you would be able to tell the difference on a 5.25" screen.  

Along those lines, wouldn't content providers have to up their stream quality too? And would they do that for just one device? {For now} Granted, native content wouldn't have that issue.

Is it possible a recent YouTube update has caused this and it's not related to a specific device or the network?  It may be possible that the wireless providers have requested YouTube remove HD over their networks.  Just a thought.

 

Robert

Hmmm. I'm looking at the "most current" YouTube app on my Galaxy S3 and it appears to allow me to stream HD via LTE. Now, is it as HD as on Wi-Fi? I couldn't tell you - my phone doesn't have the specs to tell. (And I'm not that picky even if it did)

I do wish that YouTube would allow for "audio only" streaming though. I would imagine that many who listen to YouTube for music would appreciate that feature and it would use a lot less bandwidth. It would help battery life too to allow YouTube's audio to play while the screen is off.

Does anyone else agree/disagree? I submit my feedback to Google but who knows if anyone ever reads them.

By network connection, do you mean native Sprint 3G/4G connection?  If so, that is not true.  Sprint has allowed access to SprintTV via WiFi for quite sometime. 

Yeah, that's what I was referring to.

See? I figured I was missing something.....   I doubt I'm the only one that hasn't given the application much of a chance to impress.

I'm waiting for Aereo to come to the DC market. It's only for the broadcast networks, but it still looks like a neat concept.

https://www.aereo.com/

Pending it's legality, of course.

I've been a sprint customer for ten years and I've never tried Sprint TV. Sounds like it could have been my loss. I never liked that it required a network connection.

True story. The app Flixster has a deal where you get free movies added to your ultraviolet account if you spam/text a certain number of people about the deal. I chose businesses in my address book such as the pizza place, my dentist, doctor, etc. I thought I was being slick.

After hitting send I remembered text to landline. lol 

Oops. :-)

(If I could turn it off, I would too)

This is not a reposne to any one person.

I just want to caution those who may have unrealistically high expectations for the new triband phones right at (phone/network) launch. Once live, I would imagine that it's going to take months for Sprint to tweak the different band tolerances so that we as end users get the maximum performance out of the new network. It simply can't be expected to work perfect out of the box. Remember when LTE first launched in Chicago? Growing pains - unwanted but necessary.  

We have to believe that Sprint will come up with the best plan of action they can. They'll do some internal testing and then, when they're comfortable with that, they'll roll it out. Problems will likely be found and Sprint will adjust their plans. ie If the 800 LTE only sees 1% capacity... they'll adjust to allow more users onto that band. THEY have all the numbers they need to make those judgements. After the dust settles and no more tweaking is needed - I'm sure there will be a limited number of users, in a limited number of unique situations, that'll be right there on the border and won't be happy with where their device is seeking LTE service. It can't be perfect for everybody. It's unfortunate but true. 

Improve? Of course. But each change has an effect. If a proposed change creates more of a problem than it solves - the best answer is to keep it the best it can be for as many as you can.

It won't be perfect.

Been seeing some LTE pop up in Manassas on sensorly. I have an appointment to do my taxes there this week so I'll probably roam around a bit and see if I can't pick up any new points.

 

Starting to wonder when/if they'll "bridge the gap" between all these spots in VA. (Front Royal, Manassas, Herndon, Reston, and DC). It'd be nice to smoothly stream spotify while driving around the area.

As Sensorly indicates, if you want to see LTE then roam in the area of Liberia and Wellington, near Harris Teeter. The tower closest that location is confirmed live.

I was pleasantly suprised to find solid LTE southbound I-95, from the mixing bowl to Lorton. It was great! (Especially in traffic.)

As for 28.... next time I'm in the area I'll check. I do know that driving is the worst way to try to pick up LTE. The best way to find it is to park, cycle through airplane mode, and hopefully you'll be close to an lte tower so it can connect. I posted before about driving through the 66/81 intersection and totally missing the LTE until I cycled through.

It is too possible that the sensorly map is from lte testing and that the tower isn't active with LTE 24-7 yet. Next time I'm in the area I'll check it out and report my findings.

I checked the 3G/4G tower near the east end of the Manassas airport, near Bristow Road. It had good 3G speeds but I couldn't find any LTE. (stationary, line of sight)

I enjoy hearing the updates from people who are seeing traces of LTE here and there in the DC market. Please keep your comments within the confines of decency as presecribed by the forum rules.

Wow... I'm smh reading some of the negative and harsh toned posts from the closed forum.

We're close guys. Perhaps closer than most markets. In this time of Thanksgiving lets concentrate on what we do have as opposed to what we don't.

Let me start.

Three of the four towers around my house are 3G complete already (PWC). That's going to be sweeeet when they're lte complete - which I'm sure is right around the corner.

Thank you Sprint for what you have given me. :-)

Most of the towers in our market are just 3G complete. Don't they have to be 4G complete before we can realistically expect the market to launch?

Oops. Just noticed someone had already posted the same story. lol

Oops, sorry for the repost. :-(

Sprint buys majority control of Clearwire

Top Stories | Updated 1h 56m ago

NEW YORK (AP) — Sprint is buying out the founder of Clearwire to gain majority control of the wireless network operator.

Sprint's move follows a pledge by Japan's Softbank to infuse Sprint with cash by buying a majority stake in it.

In a regulatory filing Thursday, Sprint Nextel said it will pay wireless pioneer Craig McCaw and his holding company $100 million for a 5 % stake in Clearwire, pushing Sprint's stake above 50%.

Clearwire has the right to use a large share of the nation's airwaves, but lacks the money to renovate and expand its network.

Sprint has been struggling financially too, and hasn't been in a position to invest in Clearwire until Monday's announcement that Japanese cellphone company Softbank would buy 70% of Sprint for $20 billion.

Source: http://usat.ly/RGrULb

Hey....

Reading this article got me thinking....I could have sworn that the Galaxy SIII for Sprint was missing HD Voice, unlike the EVO LTE. Is this true? Is it technically possible to Sprint to "enable" it via a software update? Or would it require hardware that the Sprint variant of the SIII simply doesn't possess?

Thanks for any information....

It appears the night is darkest before the dawn.

High Priority: Enjoy your vacation.

I never let my battery get that low so I wouldn't know

 

Sent from my Galaxy SIII using Tapatalk 2

Has anyone else noticed that the charge complete notification advises us to unplug the phone when the charge is complete?

Is that something that is important to do? Do you all do it?

I prefer to keep my phone at 100% while I have the opportunity to charge it.

Try just holding the home button. The stock task list works pretty well.

I agree. The stock task manager for the SIII is superb. I was actually referring to a to do list type widget that you can can edit/add tasks straight from the home screen without leaving much like on the stock HTC widget.

I never addressed the Galaxy Nexus. This is because it's a phone with 2011 specs that doesn't get its updates straight from Google as intended. I can dig up the source article if anyone needs it.

I recently struggled with the this same question. I was coming from a HTC Evo 4G so I had some loyalty there.

I chose the Galaxy SIII. Both phones are great. Some aspects of one phone are better than the other. Evo LTE has a better screen and HTC has better widgets. The SIII has double the amount of RAM and handles multitasking better. If I'm not mistaken the Evo also partitions the internal ROM so that you can't use the full 16 gig for apps and app to sd is disabled. I got a 32 gig Galaxy SIII all which can be used for apps.

I loved my old Evo, but it was plagued with internal memory problems too and sense ui restarts. I didn't want to go down that road again.

I tell people not to buy a phone for today's needs but also think of your needs after 12 months. You're locked into that contract for 20 months.

Now I have 20 months to find a task list app as good as the one I used on my old Evo..

Whichever you choose just accept its faults and you won't regret it,

This afternoon things returned to normal, hopefully anyway. Helping family in Montclair, service jumped to full, all bars showing. Dale City now back to normal 3-5 bars, 2-3 inside. Glad to see things working again.

 

Hopefully you experienced the same or will soon, in Arlington.

My coverage in western Prince William County has returned to what it was pre-storm.

I swear, this is NOT a "my market coverage is inadequate" post. Just an observation. We just had a storm event Friday that resulted in the largest non hurricane power outage our region has ever seen. Sprint's service region wide has definitely taken a hit ie 2 bars where I usually get full bars.

I can't help but wonder if it's strictly a power issue or if sites suffered physical damage. Even landlines in the area are suffering from a similar outage.

This is the last thing Sprint needed...

Any thoughts?

My Mom lives in Hawkins County so I know what you mean. Yes, from my limited understanding, backhaul needs to be complete before lte goes live. Is the lack of fast Century Link highspeed internet in your area indicative of a delay in getting lte to the tricities? I wouldn't think so. As stated before there are other options to provide that backhaul to rural areas ie microwave. If you read Robert's recent update about the Nashville market there is some good news in there for your area. Check it out. :-)

At a Sprint corporate store my Photon had -65 while the EVO 4G LTE displayed -79

 

Anandtech review showed that the wifi is weak on the GSIII

While it is certainly possible that the Sprint GS3 wifi is weak.... it should be noted that the Anandtech review didn't cover the CDMA variant of the GS3.

I wonder if they had enough lead time to upgrade the RAM in the white Evo LTE to 2 gig? Now that would make a lot of people mad!

Here if the S4GRU "RF focused technical rundown" of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy SIII:

Source: http://s4gru.com/ind...aunch-imminent/

• CDMA1X + EV-DO band classes 0, 1, 10 (i.e. CDMA1X + EV-DO 850/1900/800)
  
• LTE band 25 (i.e. LTE 1900; PCS A-G blocks)
  
• LTE 5 MHz carrier bandwidth
  
• LTE UE category 3
  
• SVDO and SVLTE support, including SVDO or SVLTE and simultaneous 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi tether
  
• Maximum RF ERP: 17.78 dBm (CDMA1X 850), 20.77 dBm (EV-DO 850), 24.05 dBm (CDMA1X 1900), 23.85 dBm (EV-DO 1900), 17.21 dBm (CDMA1X 800), 17.56 dBm (EV-DO 800), 22.01 dBm (LTE 1900)
  
• NFC antenna integrated into battery
  
• LTE antenna configuration: 1 Tx, 2 Rx (i.e. 2x2 downlink MIMO)
  

And, of course, the same S4GRU technical rundown for the HTC Evo 4G LTE:

Source: http://s4gru.com/ind...fcc-oet-filing/

• CDMA1X + EV-DO band classes 0, 1, 10 (i.e. CDMA1X + EV-DO 850/1900/800)
  
• LTE band class 25 (i.e. LTE 1900; PCS A-G blocks)
  
• LTE 5 MHz and 10 MHz channel bandwidths
  
• LTE UE category 3
  
• SVDO and SVLTE support, including SVDO or SVLTE and simultaneous 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi tether
  
• Maximum RF ERP: 20.43 dBm (CDMA1X 850), 18.74 dBm (EV-DO 850), 22.98 dBm (CDMA1X 1900), 18.44 dBm (EV-DO 1900), 20.01 dBm (CDMA1X 800), 18.75 dBm (EV-DO 800), 19.85 dBm (LTE 1900)
  
• Antenna gain: -2 dBi (CDMA1X 850/1900/800), -3.5 dBi (EV-DO 850/1900/800 and LTE 1900)
  
• LTE antenna configuration 1x2 (i.e. 2x2 downlink MIMO)
  

Given this excellent information provided to us by S4GRU... how would you say the Galaxy SII radio set compares to the Evo LTE? Is there any indication that the SIII will have the same radio problems that has seemed to plague prior Sammy devices?

Any technical insight into how these numbers compare would be appreciated. I'm ready for upgrade and the choice between the Evo and SIII is a hard one to make. I know it's all about what each specific user is looking for, but a significant difference in the build quality or range of the radios might tip the scales in either direction.

Thoughts?

P.S. Credit to "QWIKSTRIKE" for actually asking this question first.

Northern VA represent! Go Nationals!