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The necessity, or lack thereof, of device replacement will be a big deciding factor in subscriber retention. Buy a CDMA carrier and you can immediately shitcan their network in areas of significant overlap. Buy a GSM carrier, you need to phase out the phones before you do anything about their network, and before you do that, you need to blanket their coverage areas with CDMA coverage.

Like Terminator style? Like Ari Gold paint balling the place? (NSFW warning)

Lenovo did really good at preserving the quality of Thinkpad when it bought the PC business from IBM. If I know someone who wants a Windows PC, Lenovo is pretty much the one I recommend, and that didn't change any from when they bought that business from IBM.

Food poisoning

I wouldn't put it past Samsung to pull dirty tactics to put hurt on HTC at the supply chain level.

I wouldn't be concerned about the Nexus 5 having a 8 MP camera. The iPhone 5S has a really good camera that's 8 MP, and the HTC One has a 4 MP camera that's really good as well. The difference is that the HTC One and iPhone have cameras with larger pixels that take better pictures in low light.

I don't pay too much mind to megapixels any more because there are lots of other factors that make cameras on smartphones really good.

Since cellphone companies get fiber from telephone companies we have some in my area like AT&T and charter for telephone and internet providers. Does it matter where they get the internet from for cell towers cause AT&T sucks for speed. I was just wondering cause using charter for Internet aka server to get to Internet on phones is lightning fast. Charter gets between 30 and 100 download and AT&T like 1.5 MBs download.

AT&T fiber for commercial applications is a whole different type of ball game compared to UVerse or DSL. AT&T's fiber Ethernet is reliable to the 9's and plenty fast to give Sprint NV cells all the bandwidth they need. I wouldn't be too concerned about AT&T's backhaul services.

I've heard online scuttlebutt about AT&T testing VoLTE in certain markets, but I don't think that counts for anything. AT&T beating VZW to VoLTE would be interesting, if for no other reason than it's probably easier for 3GPP carriers to go to VoLTE earlier due to eSRVCC. I take it VZW and Sprint will wait until they have LTE over their footprint.

While it's possible for CDMA carriers to implement SRVCC, it seems as if Verizon and Sprint aren't going to use it.

Remember when everyone was mad because the iPhone 5 would prefer 1900 CDMA over 800 CDMA?

The G2 is a really good device, even if Sprint has valid technical reasons for not enabling B41 out of the gate. My advice is not to buy the G2 because it has triband, but to buy it because it's a really good mobile device.

I hope they win but I won't lose sleep if they don't.....it's all about da Blues!

Not a Blues fan. Blackhawks. Bwahahahahaha

We will also be incredibly grumpy if the Cardinals lose Wednesday.

I take it insurance is still separate and not part of the plan like Jump.

Do you have some inside information or is this just based on that they aren't doing that well?

Based on not doing well, and guessing. Maybe I should have worded better.

Yeah as long as they buy only CDMA carriers!

Regardless they are going to have to install NV whether they buy CDMA or GSM carriers. I wouldn't want to integrate the old legacy systems of regional carriers into the neat package of what has been done with NV.

I'll just say Sprint buying Viaero or Nex-Tech would be a steal right now for starters. Like buying USCC (which I'm hearing USCC could happen, if it does YAY!) it keeps spectrum out of the hands of Verizon and AT&T.

I want to make it clear here I speak for me in this post and not for the other mods and writers at S4GRU.

Android Police has done very good reviews in the past. If people have an issue with the work David Ruddock has done, contact him directly. I'll just say reviewing devices is not an easy job and leave it at that.

What would Sprint and T-Mobile bring to the table together led by SoftBank? Financial resources and spectrum they don't have apart from each other.

By the time this can be a real thing anyway, VoLTE will be mature enough to go with that as the main voice standard.

I've seen the AT&T version of the G2 already. I'll just say there's far more reasons to buy this phone than just Tri-band. It has a really big screen without having too large a body, the Snapdragon 800 is fast, and the camera is good. You're not settling if you get this phone.

What's the thoughts on the suits against Charlie? Looks like they may have him backed in a corner...

 

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He's fought people so long and so consistently in the legal arena that it is an inevitability that the legal avenues he takes would backfire on him at some point.

Without SoftBank, bankruptcy would be a real specter at this point. That said, I don't think a year turnaround on the network rebuild is unrealistic at all. 

Sprint has to start underpromising and overdelivering. This is part of the shift culturally that needs to happen under SoftBank leadership.

I can't wait to see good reception in my office...in valleys around Upper Alton...Between 64 and Carbondale on IL 127. And in general be able to use the PHONE and not drop a call pretty much ever.

Between 64 and 127 is a heck of a gap even for 800 MHz, unless Sprint shocks me completely and adds a site in Pinckneyville.

Lots of people on here read the FCC documents because they are print outs of the very firm certification process that the government administers. The FCC's testing units have to test for all kinds of interference.

I would take their documents and their testing processes over the word of someone whose job it is to push phones.

http://crackberry.com/few-takeaways-latest-blackberry-sec-filing

Ouch... Hope RIM hangs around but this SEC filing makes things look bleak.

Wow, this is bizarre. 

Ars found some benchmark anomalies http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/galaxy-note-3s-benchmarking-adjustments-inflate-scores-by-up-to-20/

More like some flat-out benchmark cooking. 

This wouldn't be such a problem if people didn't over-focus on benchmarks in the first place.

Dont worry, 4G will arrive in the next couple of months.

 

You know, just like they said in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and now 2013....

At least Sprint is moving there now, which is more than I can say in 2012 or any of the other years you mentioned.