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I am never one to shy away from better. I have always been happy with sprint voice quality... but that's like my co-worker at work saying "I've been using DVD's and they look great, why HD movies?" You never know what you are missing until you have it I don't really talk much on the phone, but when I do... I want to hear them as best as I can.

I would love seamless handoff. I am another one of those live stream users... love the perfect hand-off.

That area of downtown boston is very slow - not sure why. Other non-network vision areas in downtown boston are BLAZING fast. Really seems to be hit/miss - sounds like they upgraded a fair amount from T-1's to AVV but not all. Lots of areas in downtown boston you can hit over 2mbit while others seem to struggle (especially during peak times) to hit over 150kb/sec. Sadly, the area you were in tends to be the slowest.

sort of disappointing that it doesn't support HD voice. Same qualcomm SoC... why no HD voice?

Why? That's a ton of hassle. Roam Control - force roam for free. If they boot you because of excess roaming (which I doubt) then you will be ETF free. Port your number for free. Why go prepaid to go onto another carrier when you can just force roam 100% free?

If he wants to term out anyway, why not? Beats dropped calls or an ETF... If I needed my phone and was getting 20-30 dropped calls a day, I would roam for a few months until NV blows through. After that, unroam.

Yeah, that's what I would do. Best of both worlds.

Boston loves the extra special attention! Thanks Robert!

Price of 64GB MicroSD cards have really come down. SanDisk Ultra 64GB microSDXC was just on sale for 60 shipped from amazon. I had to get one not sure why...

Yup. I have a pretty good view. Location posted here: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/373-my-tower/page__view__findpost__p__10207 the panels that are flush with the building are Sprint and clearwire. The panels that are higher are Verizon (I think).

no airave - just an advantage of living "downtown" Was able to get the EVO down to -41 and the GNEX down to -43 for the 1x engineering menu.

It must be very frustrating that for whatever reason you were getting pushed into a contract. I wonder if it has to do with the commission structure. If an individual buys a device off contract, I know there is no commission... so I am assuming that if they do month-to-month there is no commission there either. Sometimes sprint really fails at training employees... or employees just have zero incentive to sell you off-contract (that's happened to me).

I am surrounded by cell sites!

Here are a few screen caps - maybe you could walk us through what we should be looking at? Robert - thanks for finding this! I had all but given up. here is the EVO 4G LTE in the exact same location where I took screenshot of GNEX can we make any meaningful comparison between the two?

the GNEX has a dedicated GPS - it's a very good SiRF SiRFstarIV GTD4T-9600B chip I think a lot of the problems with the Epic related to the GPS built-in to the qualcomm CDMA chip. I haven't spent a ton of time comparing the GNEX GPS to the EVO 4G LTE's 28nm qualcomm built-in GPS, but I think the GNEX is better. While the EVO has GLONASS support and the GNEX doesn't, the GNEX seems to lock faster (instantly!) and provide more consistent info. It's strange though because if you just go based off GPS test, the EVO is more accurate and has more satellites in view (double because of GLONASS, but it doesn't use them if USA sats are in view)... but in real world use, the GNEX seems to be better. Bottom line, at least both work well. If I had to guess, it seems like the dedicated GPS chip has better algorithms to deal with near by buildings and what not - giving it better real-world performance.

Not sure, the signal strength according to wifi analyzer is the same (gnex vs. evo) but it drops down to 1 wifi bar and just starts disconnecting/reconnecting.... murdering battery life and the whole point of using wifi. I live in a very urban area but I am the only user using WiFi @ 5GHz (for now). Not sure what else is interfering but I get about a 10dB swing in signal strength constantly. While I get that on the EVO 4G LTE, the evo doesn't disconnect. I picked channel 36, thought it would give me the best range. I'll try channel 153, maybe that will improve the stability of the connection. Forget using 2.4GHz... I would have to compete with a TON of users. There are so many... it can't even capture them all: It's going to be a sad day when 802.11ac comes and ruins my 5GHz band.

There is only one tower on saint john. Coverage is very spotty. Coverage on saint thomas was much better. Everywhere seemed to have 1-2 bars, which I thought was interesting (never great coverage, but at least you had something). I loved the giant SPRINT sign at the Sprint store on saint thomas. Impossible to miss. Speeds everywhere were basically 1x speeds. Perfect for emails/calls... so I wasn't really complaining. I am sure residents and visitors will be much happier once network vision lands. After leaving, I felt very spoiled being back in Boston - native sprint coverage here is very good.

Yes! What do you think of USVI having EVDO Rev 0 - I thought you would get a kick out of that. I only saw it once, rest were EVDO REV A.

Welcome to my world. I absolutely cannot stand the radio. I was just on vacation in the USVI a few weeks ago and I would literally lose data (with 2-3 bars) for hours and hours (sometimes all day) with absolutely nothing I could do to fix it (while voice would work fine). I would just have to wait it out and hope it connected (and this was on two different accounts, two different gnexes, both of which were replaced at a corporate sprint store with brand new phones, so it's not the phone). Speaking of USVI - they are in MAJOR MAJOR need of network upgrades. Holy heck coverage is spotty and slow. I thought you would find this interesting: In Boston, I still have random data disconnects. Typically, the phone still shows as connected with the "blue" bars but the data up arrow will get "stuck" and I will lose data. After a minute or so, it will reconnect. Prior to the software upgrade sprint released, it would just go grey and you would have to reprovision manually. I am convinced the update just allows it to reprovision itself. Why they didn't just use a qualcomm CDMA chip is beyond me. I suppose if you don't stream radio or use your phone a lot to surf, it isn't that bad... but I do, so it's annoying. Comparing signal to the EVO, places where the GNEX doesn't have native sprint service the EVO will still hold on. WiFi is just miles better than the GNEX as well. GNEX one room over will lose signal and loop over and over reconnecting/disconnecting to wifi while the EVO will have 2 bars (and my tablet has full wifi coverage). I think GS3 vs. EVO 4G LTE should be a much more interesting comparison.

Press release points us here: http://transition.fcc.gov/ib/sand/agree/ Hopefully they will post the agreement soon.

Public release by fcc: http://transition.fc...OC-314532A1.txt cliff notes: Allows for sprint to deploy "G" block along the border 800MHz is in "final" phase of rebanding

Tested the EVO 4G LTE 3G speeds and seemed right where it should be - no noticeable difference between this phone and others.

People got kind of upset that it took many months for the Sprint Nexus S 4G to get ICS. Sort of annoying that you don't really end up getting the updates that much faster (so it seems) anyway.

I used to think that way until now stock andoid is starting to bloat up. Preinstalled google bloat: Google+ Latitude Local Messenger Movie Studio Play Books Play Movies Play Music Search Shopper Annoying Pure google should let me uninstall it.

You would like the EVO 4G LTE... it's much better, just saying