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Honestly, I don't see a difference in battery life whether I leave it on cdma or lte/cdma.

I'm getting just below 1mbps up on 3G now so it's highly unlikely that wimax would be capped at 1 and 1.5.

Your 3g performance has nothing to do with your wimax performance. Again, sprints wimax has always had a cap on the upload speeds, at first it was capped at 1meg then it got bumped up to 1.5 sometime around the beginning of 2011 if I am not mistaken. In either case what I am saying is a simple google search away.

It's been a while since i've seen decent wimax speeds but I was definitely getting higher than the speeds you quoted.

Sprints wimax upload speeds has always been capped, download speeds were different.

Well don't blame me for jumping straight to the screen caps LOL

The screen caps you just posted are much better.

I guess it will be sometime before LTE gets strained.

When the OG Evo first launched I used to get 10Mbps down and 5Mbps up.

Now it never goes above 5 down maybe 2 up, which is great if it was consistent but it's not sometimes 3G speeds are faster.

 

Hopefully the capacity and operation under load will perform better than wimax does.

Sprint wimax had a capped upload of 1meg up which later got bumped up to 1.5meg. You may get a little more than that but not 5megs up, thats for sure.

^ Me too

Not that impressive considering you are probably the only person on the tower using LTE.

If this is what it looks like under load I would be very impressed. Hopefully it's due to the weak signal.

Wait what? 20mb down and 10mb up isn't impressive? Unless you are talking about his screen cap which tells me you didn't take the time to actually read anything.

This is awesome, I was over in that area two weeks ago and I didn't get anything at all.

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It seems we have a very large Puerto Rican following at S4GRU. I would love to visit the Enchanted Isle some day. Thanks for joining us!

 

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Just be careful when you go there, there are an insane amount of beautiful women there.

i admit, i havent read thru this whole thread, but if i can add anything, i was able to make a call while connected via LTE Data.

Yeah, thats a given but since lte isn't available everywhere it would be nice to be able to the same thing while on 3g.

Agreed. However, Sprint also knows that Clearwire is a definite, whereas PCS H Block or Dish spectrum are just possibilities. So they have to keep Clearwire in their back pocket for now. I would hold my nose and buy out Clearwire this year, if they can buy up remaining shares around a $1. It makes more sense than buying MetroPCS or Leap.

 

Robert

Exactly, never give up certainty for uncertainty. That's usually never a good idea.

I think Sprint would rather eat up clearwire vs letting tmobile or another major competitor buy them out. I am sure sprint is just waiting for the right time to buy them out. I feel like the quarter after sprint becomes profitable, they swallow up clearwire.

Yeah, seems like they are. Right now sprint has a lot of debt and if they buy clearwire out then cleawires debt will now be reflected on sprints balance sheet which will make sprint look even more worse off than they really are and that wouldn't look good when it comes to other creditors that they already owe money too and may need additional financing from.

If sprint has its focus set on running a 38,000 tower network and getting its income statement positive, the only use that spectrum will ever be to them is additional capacity for spectrum strained markets. If sprint became owner of clearwire tomorrow, what would they do? Make plans to throw cards on towers in densely populated places on their nv towers and sit on the rest of it until they can start decommissioning sites. Then be more scrutinized because they have a plentiful supply of cost prohibitive spectrum the next time they try to get other spectrum. I agree that clear is a liability as long as they dont own it, but Im not sold on the idea of cash strapped sprint "outright" either. Just seems even more risky that what theyre doing now. Both need a sugar daddy! If money is scarce for buildout, clear isnt a great buy.

With all that extra spectrum they could make a killing on the wholesale market. That's a lot of revenue with minimal overhead costs.

I don't think Sprint should buyout Clearwire since they are trying to block the Verizon Wireless-SpectrumCo Deal. If that happens, Verizon will probably fire back at Sprint for trying to block their spectrum deal.

Sprint is already the majority shareholder in clearwire so what can verizon do?

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I can't wait for the fire storm that will occur when at least half of the pre-orders don't get delivered until at least next week. Good luck to those who pre ordered.

I hope I didn't jinx this whole thing with my post from yesterday morning, LOL. I knew something was gonna go down but not on this level but this is the exact reason why I usually don't pre-order anything.

In regards to the HTC patent case. I am assuming they thought all was well as a result of the work-around. I don't see how Sprint could have known that customs was going to hold back the shipment. Either way, hopefully this gets resolved soon. I am sure this is a huge setback for management at Sprint.

Someone at HTC definitely dropped the ball somewhere. When you are talking about millions of dollars of inventory getting shipped you need to damn make sure there aren't any reasons why they won't make it to their final destinations. Personally, I don't blame sprint at all but since I am sure they already took in million of dollars of pre-order money they do need to come out and let everyone know in detail as to whats going on and not put it on the shoulders of HTC.

so these things have been in customs for over a month.....WTF!

 

 

 

http://www.reuters.c...E84F05L20120516

When I read that I assumed they meant the one x not the evolte.

I would also say that Sprint has learned a lot since launching the EVO and EVO 3D (the recent galaxy nexus launch being an example).

 

We should be happy that Sprint continues to get better (they actually just beat out Verizon on the annual customer satisfaction survey).

 

I should also add - I just picked up the EVO and EVO 3D at my local sprint store instead of preordering. Preordered both the nexus and the evo 4g lte though.

 

 

Or I could be 1000% wrong based on this:

 

http://s4gru.com/ind...rder-shipments/

 

haha, so maybe sprint hasn't learned?

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Looks like there is a delay on the EVO LTE pre-order shipments

 

 

http://s4gru.com/ind...rder-shipments/

Well I’ll be damn, I guess I did call it right but this was to be expected. Now I do not doubt sprint one bit and I am more than confident that they have learned from previous mistakes but there is absolutely no way in determining demand on a phone like this. The galaxy nexus doesn’t count because we all know that the demand for the gnex is nothing in comparison to what the demand would be on the evolte. I think it would be fair to assume that all pre-orders made with in the first 24-48 hours should be filled and anyone else that ordered after that will have to wait a little longer for theirs to arrive.

What are you basing this assumption off of?

 

Sprint's order system sucks but the fulfillment center is very good. UPS takes care of it.

 

http://pressroom.ups...or+Sprint.Video

You couldn't have been around for the original evo. We have absolutely no idea how many phones are available or how many pre-orders there are not including the various third party retailers that's doing pre-sales as well. Just last year sprint had a pre-sale for premier customers(for the evo 3d) and many people that bought the phone didn't get it until the following week while some did in fact get theirs early, myself included. So what am I basing this off of? I am basing this off of common sense, it will be very naive for anyone to think that every single pre-order will be shipped before friday. So yeah, if you pre-ordered then you may very well get it tomorrow and there will be others that will end up getting their orders filled next week.