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Any initial results yet? I'm not sure if I missed them or if you are trying to find time for this experiment. I'm sure juggling all those phones must be a daunting task!

Bought the GS3 soon as it came out. Prior to LTE turn on, I left WiFi on for our companies connection, connected to 3G at about -96dB (2-3 bars) I would drain about 60-70% battery in a day, leaving about 30% driving home.

Now I am on LTE coverage all day at work (-105db, 3 bars) and drain about 40-50% battery with WiFi off over 8 or 9 hours. The past three days I have left with over 50% battery, about the same use. Could be due to the fact I don't need to use wifi anymore, not sure.

At my house I am on WiFi and an Airrave that gives crap for signal (-95 to -110dB 3G/1X) and my battery drains much faster, just like my old phone. At my girlfriends apartment I get 3G only, but about -60db signal (full bars, tower across the street) and I'm pretty sure my phone can't die there. Last weekend I got 18 hours using WiFi under heavy use. No LTE there yet sadly (I can force a -120db connection but it's not really worth it).

In comparison, my WiMax phones (OG Epic and Epic Touch) would not last the day at work on 3G or a day at home. At the girlfriends house, the Epic Touch would make it a day, unless I turned on WiMax. WiMax was great at her place, full signal, but as far as battery life I'd rather not talk about it. To the guy who made the comment about running a USB toaster off his phone, I disagree. I could only really use WiMax if I plugged my phone in, and with the power draw of that radio plus the charging of the battery, I'm almost positive I could toast some pop tarts WITH my phone, no toaster necessary.

I think he is referring to WiFi... 5GHz WiFi is included in the LTEvo, the 3D only has 2.4GHz.

The GS3 also has 5GHz. Haven't played with it, but then again WiFi isn't very saturated in my area so I don't have issues with 20 neighbors using WiFi in the 2.4 frequency. Also I don't have a 5GHz router.

Hopefully they fixed their kernel. The sgs2 has been plagued by a kernel bug that has to do with deleting data, you can get corruption in the actual physical memory module and get a totally bricked device i heard. Usually happens when deleting anything in the system partition with an ics kernel, all the guys with ROMS had been using gingerbread kernels before messing with anything in the system partition, but the error could occur anywhere (system flashes are simply larger and more strenuous).

I'm going to go with sometime early monday, like 3am. I doubt they would lauch a brand new network, with all the potential problems, on a friday/saturday/sunday when most of the customer service reps and techs are enjoying their weekend. But here's to hoping I'm wrong!

This comes from over at the XDA forums where this has been discussed in detail http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1752203

Quote from biff6789:

Here are a few links showing that any sats numbered 65-88 are GLONASS:

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5533/m...-the-battery/3

 

http://developer.sonymobile.com/wp/2...xperia-phones/

 

 

Furthermore, due to the rotation of the earth, a device can only connect with 12-13 max sats when it can only see GPS:

 

 

If you can talk with 20+ satellites then you are definitely communicating with two separate systems

:-)

I joined because I wanted to say thank you for this comparison in advance, it's about time this happened!