Matthias

The main tower in downtown Peoria needs backhaul upgrades badly.  My office is in the same city block and at the same level within 100ft of the tower.  I did make it into to work on Monday and with a lot of people not going to work that day in downtown, I was only able to pull 800kbps down with a 3g phone.  For that day, with probably as few people in downtown compared to normal, I think I finally determine it is a backhaul issue (I have suspected that for over a year)

The Four Points Sheraton, where the tower is on top of the building, is being remodeled so I am wondering if Sprint is waiting till the remodel is done to upgrade the backhaul.

Like I said, Central Illinois speeds are sporadic.  My work today was 110kb/s download where it was 1065kb/s the other day (my work is downtown Peoria, but in the same city block as the tower, at the same height as it and within 150ft so I get 5 bars at all times).  Tested at my house in Germantown Hills this morning with 567kb/s down and 605kb/s up, just tested at 9:30pm and got the fastest speeds I have ever seen at my house with 2153kb/s down and 890kb/s up.  It was late enough in the morning where most people had left Germantown for work already so it is not congestion.  I also have the HTC Arrive (older phone) which is 3G only otherwise I would post some other speeds and info

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Ping speeds were the same in the morning and at night.

Sprint is really picking up the pace in the Peoria market! Loving the fact that I'm almost always seeing 4g between Washington/Peoria/Morton!

I don't currently have a 4G LTE phone, but I am hoping the Metamora/Germantown Hills Towers are less sporadic.  It will be nice when I get an LTE phone (cue Sprint getting a Nokia Windows Phone) and since I am at Five Points in Washington a lot.

Also I hope the downtown (Peoria) tower gets upgraded to LTE since it is either on top of my work building or within the same city block, there is no where in that building I don't have 5 bars

Any updates on Sprint and a Nokia phone?

Nokia Lumia 920, WHY U SO BEAUTIFUL?

You can't be a phone, you are ART!

Ohhh, for those who talk about Android running on a Lumia phone, that would look ridiculous and silly. Nokia worked closely with Microsoft to design phones that melded with the Windows Phone interface. Suffice to say Android and Windows Phones interface doesn't look anything alike. Same goes for running iOS on a Lumia, would look silly also.

Does anyone know if the HTC Arrive will at least recieve the Tango update and in what timeframe? Thanks!

already a member

what are your thoughts as a user and the service they offer?

the s4 snapdragon in the new evo 4g lte has the LTE modem built-in to the silicon chip, opposed to separate like the galaxy nexus, so the evo 4g lte will get much better battery life on 4g lte networks in addition to much better performance than the processor in the galaxy nexus.

FYI the Evo 4g LTE will have a 28nm Snapdragon S4 dual core processor (which can outperform the Quad Core Tegra 3 in quite a few situations) which will be much faster and get much better battery life (and most likely better signal with the newer radio) than the Nexus (40nm dual core, LTE modem on a separate chip). The new S4 will help 4G smartphones get nearer to the battery life of 3G only smartphones.

If Sprint can get the phones out soon enough, 2 of my 5 lines prefer a physical keyboard, so this would work for them.

I found this a few days ago and am finally getting around to posting it on here.

"and a QWERTY landscape-slider with a traditional 4″ WVGA display set to arrive on Sprint. The rather interesting part here, however, is the chip these devices are supposed to be running on: the MSM8960, part of the Snapdragon S4 family."

http://wmpoweruser.com/windows-phone-8-rumors-nokia-prepping-pureview-and-qwerty-devices-lenovo-and-asus-to-join-the-game/

There is also a possibility of more then one Sprint WP7/8 in the August/September timeframe, since they are rumored to be getting a hero device and the phone above does not seem to be a hero device with the specs we see (they are pretty good, just not hero device good in my opinion).

Sprint get on these Nokia's

I messed around with a Lumia 900 about two weeks ago, I would love to see a 4 in version since I thought 4.3 in was too big in my opinion, with S4 dual core Snapdragon with LTE.

I would definitely take a Nokia WP7 phone. Ideally with an Qualcomm S4 and higher res screen that gets released this summer and will fully be utilized with the Apollo update (it doesn't need to use the dual core or higher res screen till the Apollo update, but having it future proof would be great)

Has anyone heard any updates on the first LTE phones being both 800mhz and 1900mhz compatible?

You have a dead tower since yesterday at the intersection of E. Queenswood Rd and Tennessee Ave. Are you near there?

 

The local carrier is being engaged as it is on their end.

Sorry I mistyped it, on mobile device at the moment, should be 61605

I was also at the other zip code yesterday and had issues to, about 8 miles between the two towers

Zip code?

61550 would be one of them

I don't know if this qualifies as Network Vision, so I just posted it here. Network has been extremely slow for awhile in Peoria and some of the surrounding area, the local Sprint stores have confirmed work is being done on the towers for awhile (could be what they are supposed to say).

Anyways last night, with good signal and being within 1/2 a mile of the tower, my phone's data dropped to under 2 kilobytes a sec and for 15 mins or more (regularly 20-40 kilobytes), my phone showed eastern time opposed to central time. Any of this sound like an indicator to anyone here in the know?

I would like Nokia to be the one to get this to Sprint, but I like HTC quite well also. Nokia is just making the highest quality WP7 phones at the moment and they look amazing also. Nokia Lumia 900 with the S4 inside it would be amazing :-)

The meeting was already held for February, I believe it was around the middle of the month. I have been talking with SA_Doc who is a member and gave some WP updates to us on the WP portion of Sprint's forum. Membership as I understand it is decided by Sprint, it is people who are very active on the Sprint forum and show that they have a good understanding of Sprint customers. Only a limited number are Sprint Advocates, I think I have only encountered 3-4 on the forums, but I am sure there are more (probably no more than 10-15 total).

As far as the signatures and petition go, just realize that is just those who know about the petition. If that many signed it in less than a week, imagine how many who didn't know about it that might wanted to sign. Plus if enough users actually want one, imagine how many walk into a store and try out phones could or would decide on one. The number can add up pretty quickly.

Sorry if I came off a little defensive in my last post Sgt; I have gotten use to having to defend myself from personal attacks the I talk about wanting more WP choices (for some reason people think that means I want to limit the iPhone and Android and so thus choose to attack my desire to have WP choices). This forum is not bad at it, but a few other forums I do post on can be downright rude about it. Again I apologize if I came off defensive in my last post.

Absolutely no way I touch W8 phone. They r way too far behind to deal with those struggles. I'm all about early adapting new tech but I'd be giving up way too much leaving android for it.

 

Would think this is referring to the 8960PRO chip they just talked about as they hit on it being windows 8 capable and all...

 

What will make me upset is if Sprint ditches further effort of having android flagship device in order to do the WM8 devices...

 

Who's going to leave android or iOS for WM8?? I'd bet not many at all...

 

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Well we started a petition that got over 2000 signatures of people which have decision power over more than 25,000 Sprint lines (I have 5 lines myself, some of them were business owners with 30-50 lines), many of which are current Android and/or iPhone users. Also it was one of the biggest talking points for the February meeting of the Sprint Advocacy group which has a lot of influence when working with Sprint. So the interest is definitely there, rather you share it or not.

No one who is asking for WP7/8 phones is asking Sprint to stop getting the iPhone or Android phones, we are asking them to give us more good choices. Regardless I think Sprint needs to do some spring cleaning (lol, since they will get a new lineup in the spring) on their Android lineup, if it is not a great phone at that price point, get rid of it, keep only the best ones for customers :-)

I'm all about choices! I also edited the Topic title to add WP and Sprint so readers would have a little better idea what the topic is about. Thanks!

Thanks S4GRU, I appreciate it.

I would like to see just an all round solid Sprint lineup for each kind of phone, Android, WP, iPhone, Blackberry, non-smartphones, etc. I am pushing WP7, partly because I want one, but mostly due to the lack of choice they offer at this time. I think Sprint should get 3-4 WP phones by the end of the year including the one they have.

Very nice. I've no real interest in Windows phones, but the people I know that have them are pretty happy with them. The more LTE/Phone options Sprint has to offer the better.

I have been an Android user for almost 3 years now and a xda member and contributor, I have lost interest in Android phone for me and think WP7 is a good alternative to move to. Even though I don't want an Android, I still hope Sprint gets more and improves their Android lineup. I figure more choice for everyone :-)

http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/29/2830246/windows-phone-8-dual-core-qualcomm-sprint

I know of many people interested in this and this will be very good news for us, especially if we see it before August :-)

They are beating the A9 quad core in benchmark tests. I have not seen them go up against the Tegra 3. I have heard that the GPU leaves something to be desired on the Tegra 3 which surprises me because it's NVIDIA...

You are right about the A9 quad cores and those processors being compared to them, is Tegra 3 A15? I knew the GPU would leave something to be desired compared to competition and to me GPU plus power efficiency is more important than CPU performance and other metrics. I would give up some performance of the total package to a certain degree (it obviously still has to be capable, otherwise who cares how long it lasts) for better battery life on mobile devices.

From my understanding Tegra 3 is not that impressive of chip, Qualcomm and TI are showing off dual core chips that spank quad core Tegra 3 in almost every category. I could be getting confused because I am at work and won't do any extensive fact checking, but this is what I remember being shown over the last few weeks from ARM chip makers on other websites like anandtech, the verge, etc