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So Robert, a whole ago you were saying that you have some new info related to the NV rollout in Orange County, CA. Recently, the service hasn't been allowing me to connect to 3G in some parts of the county. Even when I update my prl it will connect to 3G for a second then revert back to the slower network. Any chance this is because they pushed forward the NV here? I know it's a long shot, but I only ask because of what you said earlier.

I saw a white Galaxy Note yesterday and it's a thing of beauty. At least the screen is.

My speed in December-January and here is my speeds more recently As you can see its better, not anything amazing though

An LTE next-gen iPhone with unlimited data could potentially "save" Sprint imo. People are finally seeing what data caps do to LTE with the new iPad, and they'll want more data. The biggest knock on Sprint as to why people won't switch to them even though they have unlimited data and it's cheaper, is because of the horrid data speeds (can't blame them.) LTE solves that. Suddenly Sprint is just as fast as the other guys, or close enough, and cheaper and unlimited. That's a huge draw. I've already talked to a lot of people about the potential of an unlimited LTE iPhone on Sprint and what it would mean, and a lot of people that dislike Sprint are now saying that if they have a chance to switch over, they're going to strongly consider it. I just hope NV keeps going really well and Sprint has a large portion of markets done or almost completed by October and things should be gravy.

People with LTE iPads are going over their data caps not doing anything differently than they were before. Streaming Netflix over LTE uses twice as much data as it does over 3g according to Verizon. Eeek. AT&T wants the app makers to pay for data now, so we'll see how that goes. My guess is it raises the price on apps.

I think there's going to be soonish

Are we getting another release tonight? *fingers crossed*

The NV image of the overlap between WiMax and LTE scares me. It looks like not that many people living in WiMax areas will get LTE at first, and I live in one of those areas. Ahhh

I really hope so, LA got AT&T's rollout pretty early

When I had unlimited AT&T, I was using 4-6gb a month. Switched to Sprint in October and because of the much slower Sprint data speeds where I live, I only use like 700-1gb a month. I'd definitely agree with the notion that faster data speeds lead to increased used of data.

Sprint wont get the iPad, or at least isn't rumored to. And I bet they try to have a few markets covered with LTE by the time the next iPhone is released, an unlimited LTE iPhone would be a huge draw.

I'm agreeing with you, that Phandroid article was incorrect on the Kindle Fire. Foxconn makes the original Kindle, not the fire. However, the list of companies that use Foxconn on that article is correct.

Correct, but Amazon wants Foxconn to make the Kindle Fire 2. Foxconn currently makes the Kindle, just not the fire. http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2012/02/17/amazon-looks-foxconn-kindle-fire-2.htm He's Foxconn's wikipedia page that has the following companies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn Acer Inc. (Taiwan)[31] Amazon.com (United States)[32] Apple Inc. (United States)[33] Cisco (United States)[34] Dell (United States)[35] Gateway (United States)[36] Hewlett-Packard (United States)[37] Intel (United States)[38] Microsoft (United States)[39] Motorola Mobility (United States)[35] Nintendo (Japan)[40] Nokia (Finland)[33] Samsung (South Korea)[41] Sony (Japan)[42] Toshiba (Japan) [43] Vizio (United States)[44] [edit]

Microsoft profit margin: 31.72% Intel: 24.2% Google: 25.56% Samsung: 18% IBM: 18.62% Apple: 28.2% http://ycharts.com/ They all have pretty high profit margins (besides companies failing like Dell and HP.) My point is, this isn't an issue Apple can tackle alone, they all need to work together to improve conditions over there.

here's one from an Android website: http://phandroid.com/2012/02/01/apple-users-in-uproar-over-foxconn-labor-conditions-so-why-are-android-users-silent/

Foxconn makes most (if not all) Android phones. Apple isn't the only one who uses them.

Off topic: but Apple actually treats their employees really well. It's one of the highest rated employers in the US (along with Google.) If you are talking about Foxconn, they're only a supplier for Apple, along with HTC, Samsung, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Dell, HP, Motorolla, etc etc. However, Apple has taken steps to improve the working conditions of the employees in associated Foxconn factories (more than any other company has) but that could be because for some reason they take the most heat for it and every other tech hardware company associated with them (all) is largely ignored. On topic: every company is suing every company, its the way its been for years, only now its getting more notoriety.