Fraydog

How is the RF performance of the Moto X on T-Mobile? Motorola always did an A+ job on radio performance for the Verizon devices I had, does that carry over to WCDMA/HSPA+ and LTE?

Maybe the reason the LG G2 is taking so long is that it's taking a while for TD-LTE support. Pure speculation on my part, mind you, I have no evidence this is the case, this is a guess on my part. 

http://crackberry.com/blackberry-and-fairfax-what-happens-now

Given the impact of the China Mobile deal upcoming, I don't think it's out of the question for a hardware revision for band 41. That would screw early adopters, but still be a better deal than keeping 41 out even though Apple now has the economy of scale to implement it with China Mobile, SoftBank, and Sprint. 

Not sure I would use the word planning on some of them expensive fiber connections to cover those cane fields with almost zero population and the LTE doesn't reach the interstate as intended isn't planning to me.

There are bad network engineers and bad planners working for all carriers. It's hardly a phenomena limited to Sprint Corporation.

See if this makes sense. Samsung is to the A7 as Foxconn is to the iPhone.

 

AJ

Seems fair to me.

I believe Samsung makes the 64 bit A7 chip in the iPhone 5s

That's Samsung's foundry, a completely different operation than the chip design unit of Samsung semiconductor. Qualcomm doesn't technically make their own chips either they do it through someone else's foundry as well, in Qualcomm's case it's usually TSMC, though Samsung foundries have been rumored to make Snapdragons as well.

This is not a complaint forum guys, we all know what the rules are here. I don't want to be a jerk but we have to enforce the rules.

Accessibility settings are easy to find, and Apple has more of them with more accessibility options than any other mobile OS to my knowledge. If the parallax makes you queasy, you can shut off animations and the effect is gone.

that was a slap in the face when i read about that... i agree 100%, if your up for an upgrade i would go with either the G2 or the nexus 5, (i know doesnt sound great if you wanted an iphone) but me personally, i might wait until the next iphone just because of tri band support, unless they make a 5S with support for band 41 in the future... which would be pretty freakin sweat

Problem is, this phone is meant for China Mobile. Apple still doesn't have a deal signed with China Mobile yet. To further elaborate, the Chinese use weird frequencies and standards the rest of the world doesn't use, specifically TD-SCDMA. A China Mobile iPhone would have TD-SCDMA support as well as GSM/UMTS/LTE/TD-LTE support. Now could you add CDMA1X/EV-DO to that? Possibly, but I don't have any clue how the RF works on the new iPhones yet so I have no clue. Is it worth Apple doing a short update for TD-LTE support? We'll see. They have done mid year updates for AWS HSPA, so I'm not going to say it's impossible. I did think that there would be a similar model for China, Japan, and Sprint with this update of the iPhone, so maybe Apple could just roll that out early on while iPhone supply is still short for the 5S. 

Yay to both Qualcomm and Nvidia. Truth is, Samsung's processor design unit is massively overrated. Apple's is very underrated. Now we're starting to see how good it is with the A7 and the move to 64 bit which completely blindsided Samsung.

For anyone familiar with Sprint T's and C's, can Sprint just go and terminate someone for any good reason they want to make up?

Given the instability with BlackBerry, grab one while you can. It's unfortunate, but I think BB10 is an example of a good product moving to the market too late. I think BlackBerry can do better as an enterprise focused company like IBM.

Given how slow network progress was before in STL, it's outstanding that TD-LTE has come on line much faster than expected in St. Louis.

Take it from someone who has a CDMA carrier in a rural area, and that's Big Red. The edge of cell performance that Qualcomm says and the reality are two different things. What really happens on 1 bar of 1X? Usually a dropped call. Usually.

The fascination with keeping CDMA around past 2021, I'm kind of confused by. By then LTE should be able to handle edge of cells issues better than CDMA.

It's like Microsoft wanting to keep their legacy tech around, how is that working for them?

VZW is actually Kelly LeBrock? I knew it!

 

 

AJ

To be fair, TCMits on HoFo came up with the name. He must have had a Kelly LeBrock crush.

That might explain why VZW was interested in EBS spectrum. Sounds to me like the Lady In Red is a little worried she may be oversold. See HowardForums speed test thread. I can testify that in my town, VZW LTE is already slowing up and they've only had it here for 3 months. Great work, Lady In Red.

I know this point may belong to the T-Mobile Sprint merger discussion, but if such a thing were to happen, we could rest easy knowing that at least Hesse would likely lead the newly combined company while Loudmouth Legere would be off counting his money somewhere. 

We're one with Eurasia now. 

Actually I think you mean Lucent, they were the ones with the network stuff while Alcatel makes phones.

Alcatel made network equipment pre-merger as well. I meant AlLu and it came out Alcatel. 

I think Nokia is the best partner for Alcatel, and I'm betting that the best company for improving the AlLu markets is NSN. 

What carrier is your corporate BlackBerry on?

ATNI, unfortunately had the nasty tendency to not upgrade networks. I suspect they were looking for the cash out all along. If they ran their affairs like they wanted to compete, they'd probably still be around. They were a non-presence in Randolph County with only 25 MHz of CLR spectrum and 12 MHz of 700 they never used for LTE. I only knew 2-3 people here who had Alltel.

Didn't you say that your area is one of the ones where Verizon owns both Cellular blocks?

No, that's A belonging to Verizon and B now belonging to AT&T through the recently approved ATNI buyout of the remaining Alltel markets.

Democrat? Republican? I can barely tell the difference when it comes to the FCC. Both the Bush and Obama administrations have been bad at allowing a bunch of corporate BS.

As far as spending money on some regionals here and there, I think USCC would yield a bigger coverage area than people may at first think.

The most important thing I can think of is that IT KEEPS THAT SPECTRUM OUT OF THE HANDS OF AT&T.