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AJ, haha i skimmed that article like a doufus. lol wasn't trying to come off as emotional toward the name EVO but just that its still early to discount it out. More so mainly b/c how Sprint and VZ like to have "their" branding on their flagship devices so that leaves anything possible for them. Just early to count it out...

yeah their actual press release has "...Snapdragon S4 and S4 Pro are designed to enable tablets and notebook devices to deliver ..." So by that you see they list S4 in there too which obviously is NOT tablet specific. In that piece of the PR they were commenting on the Windows 8 platform and how they are excited about it and this chip satisfies Microsoft's standards, so it could very well mean many things and people could very well be reading too much into the words there...

totally know about the other EVO's out there, and totally know about HTC's push to have fewer devices than in years past. BUT they have already started to get away from that with the link I posted above. http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/26/htc-to-launch-dragon-series-smartphone-in-mainland-china-expa/ So its still way too early to toss the EVO "branding" out the door as Sprint/HTC started that and in the end Sprint has the decision on what it gets just like Verizon does. Come CTIA in first of May we should know a ton more fact and not all this speculation. I just hope Sprint bucks up and says they want microSD support at the very least...

hate that idea simply b/c it would mean no SD card and no removable battery. lol i just want those things...on top of what they improved on already....

yeah I wouldn't be so quick on this. the last two years Sprint has put out a flagship device no one else has had to start with, and I would expect the same this year....(unless they are laying an egg and taking a year off while NV rollouts hit their pocket...) more evidence that the EVO line might not be dead...They have the Dragon line too... http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/26/htc-to-launch-dragon-series-smartphone-in-mainland-china-expa/ Again, I personally can't believe you jumped to the conclusion that the EVO line was dead. pure speculation, should of been stated as such too. imho.

regardless i've been trying to knock some sense into some of the folks at xda recently in my thread that covered this device. Some saying its not an upgrade are just missing it completely. Same with those complaining about it not being quad core in US. I mean come on read up a little please, the S4 dual core spanks the terga3 in 90% bench's and at the very least is NOT a drawback in the slightest. The other thing is the whole fact they have its own dedicated image chip on board now that provides HUGE advantages to the camera, along with the F/2.0 lens!! Oh and the display is great too! And I haven't even gotten into the whole ridiculous types of coatings they used for the shell's, one is polycarbonate, and another is freaking plasma treated, all with gorilla glass... I do say though my gripes are the battery issue, no SD card, no shutter button...Hopefully these are things that Sprint irons out...

who cares about tiered network....how about battery life? having to sync up to dropbox all the time to back up your data since you dont have an SD card?.....no thanks

THIS is what i've been waiting for!! http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/27/qualcomm-unleashes-snapdragon-s4-pro/ Take the current S4 chips and they added Adreno 320 graphics to it up from the 225 thats currently in the MSM S4 chips! Stated to be out in market 2nd half of this year....just in time for Sprints flagship device maybe?!!!

thats fine b/c the dual S4 keeps up with the terga3 as it is now... http://www.anandtech.com/show/5584/htcs-new-strategy-the-htc-one Also heres the thread over in xda i had during the event today. bottom of my post has all the pre-mwc rumor stuff. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1466209 all in all I was surprised they didn't discuss Sense4.0 more. The camera stuff they went over seemed AMAZING, along with the case finishes they are using, gorilla glass too....BUT the whole built in battery, and NO SD card is enough for me to reconsider greatly any variety that makes its way to Sprint if those hold the same. I get theres more space so SD card might not be needed but its a safety thing for me more than anything. If my phone is messed up I always know I have a backup of 99% my stuff on my SD card. Yes I could sync with the cloud BUT that alone kills the battery, and doing so on the computer is just tedious. Also the battery being smaller than I would expect it to be for a built in one is a turn off. AGAIN WHY HTC do you still push to have that bump for the camera making the rest of the phone thin so you can say its a thin phone overall? Make it flush and put a bitter battery in the sucker and tout 3 day battery life or whatever. Its not that big of a difference but the bump itself is redic imho.

Not just him but a handful of other VPs too. The link u had in your post didn't work for me so I just went to the http://investors.sprint.com/insiders.aspx?iid=4057219 site and saw the forms there. Looked like about 10 ppl total and was just stock options filing. The notes cited they were from their Omnibus Incentive program...Like Dans states he isn't 100% vested in these shares till 2015 and they are restricted performance based too so he might not even get fully vested in these if he doesn't meet whatever conditions they set out... All in all this is no big deal at all. Sent from my PG86100 using Tapatalk

It's the same terga3 that's in the tablets I thought. The whole 5th core announced was already there from the start just never really discussed fully the way I read it during the presentation stream. And if that's the case the dual core S4 will stomp it in some tests. 28nm FTW Sent from my PG86100 using Tapatalk

Well this is my wheelhouse here being I deal with financial markets. At first brief glance the form I looked at seemed nothing more than members(Dan) actually getting more stock issued to them directly... Nothing to worry about. It's not them selling anything as its noted with an "A" and NOT a "D" as D is for disposed. I'll look again tomorrow but I'm pretty sure that its nothing but their incentives kicking in really. Sent from my PG86100 using Tapatalk

Looks cool for sure. I'd be interested in how some cases would work on that since screen stretches so close to edge of phone. Like my casemate wraps around and it'd be real close to being able to do that on that device it looks like... Sent from my PG86100 using Tapatalk

????? Never herd that at all... I know it was rumored for Sense 4.0 devices to get 50Gb dropbox space but that has recently been shot down as its only 25Gb and for 2yrs according to the leaked press images for HTCs event tomorrow showing off the phone... Sent from my PG86100 using Tapatalk

Taking what you said there as a joke btw. But i do love how ppl associate bloatware with sprint when out of all the US carriers they are one of the most responsive with it making a lot of it removable at least in newer devices. Also whatever they are doing it will be better than VZ version as they somehow got the OK to strip features off the Nexus like Google wallet...still can't believe Google was ok with that. Sent from my PG86100 using Tapatalk

Pretty sure terga3 is based on A9... Sent from my PG86100 using Tapatalk

Ahh thanks for the clear up there. Yeah i picked up my evo4g the week it came out at the local Walmart since it was the only place that had it then. Absolutely lucky that once done the CS rep I spoke with was able to fix everything the employee at Walmart messed up and she was able to keep my old plan that didn't exist in the process... Btw what's the difference perk wise that you have or is there none? Sent from my PG86100 using Tapatalk

Fiber/microwave backhaul is not being done to cell sites until the site is having NV tower upgrade. The stuff on the website u referenced is NOT fiber its only bundled T1 lines being used as patch work temporarily to help the area get by till NV upgrades are done. Sent from my PG86100 using Tapatalk

Okay thanks! Would love to see any kind of near "official" diagrams on how its wired up if thats at all near possible in the future...

yeah i get the whole not on every tower thing, but the NV cabinets being installed on the current WiMax towers. Will 2.5 be run through those switching cabinets or will they stay in their separate cabinet like they are now?

True. Wasn't really trying to say they would come back and add the 2.5 on every site, though I know it kinda read like that. Really just meant that in future Clear would be coming to some sites to add coverage in general. Regardless it all depends on the following being true or not. So the when on a tower that already has the 2.5GHz from Clear it will NOT be run into that same NV cabinet when they do the upgrade at sites?? If this is a NO then, my whole thought on them doing WiMax towers/towers in most popular areas is out the window. In all honesty it doesn't matter a bit anyway as the WiMax locations likely coincide with the most population dense areas anyway and thats likely how they are hitting this so they can come out the gates quick and say they cover Xmillion people already with the fewest locations done. Though I am interested in the 2.5GHz being run in the NV cabinet or not b/c if not then it means the advantages of NV will not translate to that band at all ever and I wonder why they would make that decision...

yeah i remember it I edited my post saying that date sounded familiar. lol I completely understood not mentioning them b/c at the time they didn't know and you can't start saying Clear moving to LTE b/c then any WiMax sales from then on would of been killed so it was smart to just keep saying they were supporting WiMax till 2015, to not get an uproar from customers... And yes the early schematics are what I was referring to btw. I never took the whole PC as a way that Clearwire wasn't involved in NV at all. Completely besides the whole LTE thing, I always thought that since on the same tower that when NV cabinets were installed at those towers that the 2.5GHz from Clear would be routed into those cabinets b/c of the early schematics shown. Makes no sense at all to NOT do that regardless of WiMax/LTE or whatever.

Did they announce this change with pulling the 2500 from NV? (Edit: actually that sounds like the lil conference date they had on NV last year...) Why was this done specifically?

I never had to wait to get my evo4g nor evo3d. I had the original SERO plans that got converted over to whatever its called now. I have to go through the employee line to get phones as doing so in store(best buy...) is an absolute nightmare and still requires an advanced CS rep to fix if it ever goes through. Called the morning the 3D went on sale and employee line had it shipped the next day no wait at all... Sent from my PG86100 using Tapatalk

Yes that's what I'm saying. When there isn't a WiFi connection it kills ur battery searching for one. Also the act of turning it on to search and then off kills it. Wasn't debating the fact WiFi is better on battery than network when connected. Sent from my PG86100 using Tapatalk