themuffinman
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Why is it garbage? Is this anything new? Carriers will almost always ship first. I mean think about every major android release over the last several years and tell me when an OEM shipped anything to customers before the carriers did(specifically in the US).
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Haven't sent anything on my s8+ but I am having mms issues with my u11 though.
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60fps is now optional when shooting in 1080p, thats all I was really looking for.
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Update available, comes in at a hefty 708.51mb.
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Umm yeah, that upload speed looks kinda suspect.
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The u11 is a band 41 beast, at home when in my basement my s8+ would be either on band 25 or 26 100% of the time while my u11 is still on 3xCA most of the time.
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Liking the update as well, lte calling is working much better than I initially thought it would.
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I still got the error a few times after rebooting, but it's working now.
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Same here as well. Edit: Nevermind, it's working for me now.
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Same here
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Yeah, sorry. I know about the policy its just that I didn't think the unlocked s8 was on that list when it came out.
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Specifically on the unlocked s8 model on release day?
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Was this the policy on release day or was it something sprint implemented over time? Edit, with respect to the unlocketds8 specifically
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Yeah, go ahead, LOL.
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Well I stand corrected then, interesting.
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I don't understand, how will they lose customers over this?
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Not if you want to activate it on sprint.
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Again, all hardware are the same on the s8 just like on the iphone and just like the u11. But if you want to specifically use any of them on sprints network you need to get the sprint specific model. The sprint specific model only means that those specific predetermined range of imei's are whitelisted for sprint's network where as any other imei's won't activate. So don't buy the unlocked model then think you will be able to activate it on sprint.
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Ok, if you are going to activate this on sprints network then you need to buy the sprint specific model. The reason being, is that even though all s8 hardware are the same, sprints system won't accept the imei number from the unlocked model. All non sprint imei's are automatically blacklisted so no way it can be activated. Edit: you can always unlock the sprint model if need be, its not very hard.
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My question is, at some point will you be activating this on sprints network?
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I agree but he specifically mentioned supporting the same bands as the sprint model so I took that as possibly that at some point it may end up on sprints network and the unlocked model won't work on sprints network.
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The hardware is the same on all s8 models, if you intend on activating it on sprints network at some point then do yourself a favor and get the sprint specific model.
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You would think that all these carriers going towards a non subsidy model for their monthly plans would to also help with decreasing the price of these phones do to more competition but that's not changing at all. The cost to manufacture these devices seems to have stayed relatively stable for these OEM's while increasing their retail pricing at a much higher rate.
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It won't be available on sprint.
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In my opinion I think it's worthy of an upgrade if you have the 10. The difference in screen size, addition of ip67, major camera improvements(the 10 did have a good camera too though), very nice build quality, edge sense(which is actually very useful), much better battery life and the headphones out of the box are fantastic. And on top of all that, it's probably the fastest Android device next to the pixel.
