afazel

That's kind of horrible

Just ordered mine.

Any Sprint employees know how the activation is going to work?

How are you determining the Play Store version will be activated by Sprint? I'm not seeing anything referencing that in the Play Store.

I get less than 4 down with -100 most of the time. Sometimes it'll hit 4. It's usually usable, at least.

 

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They must have done some work around here. I just got over 5 down and 2 up with a -110 dBm signal.

Another one: http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/10/31/the-nexus-5-and-kitkat-launch-today-october-31st/

He just says today, though.

edit: I've been scooped!

I get less than 4 down with -100 most of the time. Sometimes it'll hit 4. It's usually usable, at least.

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I wonder how long until we see a Samsung Galaxy Epic Sparky 4G Touch.

 

It does annoy me that I bought the first triband phone only to find out it will be the last one from 2013 to be able to use triband. Hopefully this will be a case of under promise and over deliver. I have active band 41 right where I live and want to try it out now.

I think you meant Samsung Galaxy Epic Sparky 4G Touch by Sprint with Google

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Do not cream your pants. Handsets are not going to aggregate three 20 MHz TDD carriers with 8x8 MIMO to achieve 1 Gbps throughput. It will not be implemented because it is impractical, downright ludicrous.

 

AJ

You mean it would be ludicrous speed?

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Rock candy

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Another one of those damn terms the NOLA market started..donut sites..red sticked sites.

 

Baton Rouge translates to Red Stick.  We had a bunch of sites at the beginning of the market rollout that didn't work.  I was marking them on our market map as red pins.  Looked like a bunch of red sticking out the map in Baton Rouge so the irony stuck.  We started calling any broken site in our market, "red sticked".

Ah, thanks. I like that.

Maybe they're arks to provide safe passage for the select few when the universes are smashed together to create a new custom-made universe, destroying each other in the process.

rate limiting

I've seen the term yesterday and today, but what is a "red-stickied" site?

What about in Atlanta where the same road turns into different variations of "Peach" and "Tree?" Peachtree Industrial Blvd. turns into Peachtree Blvd. which turns into Peachtree St., or the other way around if you're headed north from Atlanta.

Sexual healing

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Hospital certification

Son won

sore winner

The place I normally buy my (new) phones from (DirectBuy) has an additional ETF if you cancel within the first 6 months.

Sweater season

Sprint could decide to only put a subset of the devices into their DB and only allow those sold specifically for their network to be activated. I don't know about a CDMA authentication file, but the main obstacle is getting the CDMA carrier to activate it.

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I had good luck with Sprint's old service plan, the 2 corporate stores near me were always great, usually just swapped out my device if they couldn't fix something within a few minutes.  The one time I needed to take advantage of my Black Tie plan, they gave me a brand new phone on the spot, so I can't complain about that either.

 

-Mike

That's been my experience with Sprint TEP back when I had an OG Evo, but when I had my Hero with the Geek Squad Black Tie protection they wanted to send it in. I think I ended up fixing it myself because it was a software/ROM issue. I ended up canceling right then and Sprint let me pick up their insurance because it was during open enrollment. Best Buy kept charging me for the Black Tie protection and wouldn't refund me, so I initiated and won a chargeback with my CC.

I prefer Best Buy for my phone upgrades because I like their insurance plan better, and you can earn reward points to save a few bucks down the road. But Sprint might deliver preorders faster though, who knows until November 8 gets closer..

 

-Mike

I like Sprint's insurance plan better because you can just take it into a Sprint store for many repairs. Sometimes you can get a replacement then and there. Geek Squad they have to send it in in all instances and it can take 2 weeks or more to get your phone back. I don't have a backup phone, so that would be awful for me. YMMV.

Buggy code

Google was having sync issues for about 30 minutes, so according to my calculations the Nexus 5 should be announced on about the 30th.