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Best Buy at least doesn't add their own ETF. Their current promotion gives you 10% off and 1000 bonus RZ points (= $20 in RZ bucks). And if you signed up back in February (you might have done and forgot) they had a promotion where if you signed up you'd get a $50 gift card for upgrades between February and December 31, which should stack on the current promotion.
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SID alone should be a giveaway; the PRL entries for those SIDs simply won't scan anything other than ESMR spectrum for 1X (they will scan PCS for EVDO, though, of course); from digiblur's PRL decodes: SID: 22412 Sprint Nextel - Bloomington IN; Indianapolis IN; Marion IN Prio:Same Roam:None 1X: S/476 S/526 EV: Sprint(0084:0AC0) P/50 P/650 P/550 P/325 P/475 P/600 P/125 SID: 4135 Sprint - Indianapolis IN Prio:Same Roam:None 1X: P/50 P/25 P/200 P/100 P/75 P/350 P/925 P/325 P/375 EV: Sprint(0084:0AC0) P/50 P/650 P/550 P/325 P/475 P/600 P/125 SID: 4148 Sprint - Louisville Lexington Evansville KY Prio:More Roam:None 1X: P/500 P/625 P/575 P/675 P/425 EV: Sprint(0084:0AC0) P/50 P/650 P/550 P/325 P/475 P/600 P/125
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Hence my point. In dock mode I want my phone to be horizontal (landscape); if you put the charging port on the bottom (in portrait/vertical orientation), that produces a goofy, asymmetric mount design. The Evo LTE mount, on the other hand, is perfect. Hence for me bottom charging is a step back to the OG Evo's design, and not a positive development.
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Having the microUSB port on the side is nice for car and desktop docks, though.
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Current & Coming Soon Sprint Communities - LTE Status
lordsutch replied to Dkoellerwx's topic in Markets
Not that weird; the Sprint Georgia market is a 3rd/4th round market, while Atlanta was 1st round. It's actually a bit surprising they've gone ahead with the 3G Ground Mount sites rather than waiting to do everything at once (without going too deeply into sponsor info, only a few of the sites that are "live" so far in the Georgia market are not GMOs). My guess is now that most of the 2nd round markets are picking up steam and Atlanta-Athens is on the downswing the Georgia market will start getting more 4G love in the next month or two. -
I think the FCC would probably approve of a merger or mergers that improved Sprint's geographic coverage & strengthened its rural presence, which would be the exact opposite of a T-Mobile+MetroPCS (or Cricket or other metro carrier) merger. Merging with T-Metro would probably require lots of divestitures, and would be yet another merger of incompatible technologies. Frankly I think a roll-up of regional CDMA carriers (C Spire, nTelos, US Cellular, whatever's left of divested Alltel, etc.) in states where Sprint has limited/no native coverage is much more likely than a T-Metro merger.
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I doubt WiMax will come down sooner; it may accelerate dual deployment, but frankly I think the "assurances" are simply hot air. Sprint wasn't going to deploy new Huawei gear, and (AFAIK) Huawei doesn't make the gear they need to add LTE to the Clearwire network anyway. As for the "national security implications" of Huawei stuff, my take is that if the equipment relies on chips made in mainland China (and the whole network relies on Chinese-made chips, both at the user equipment and the network equipment level), it's just as easy to install backdoors on the silicon if it has a "Samsung" or "Alcatel-Lucent" or "Ericcson" label on the outside of the box as it is if it has "Huawei" on the box. So really this is all protectionist, nativist noise.
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Mozilla has reinvented (a crippled incomplete) webOS. I expect it will work out equally awesome in practice. http://t.co/jtCxgQy4RH
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Photo: I just unlocked the Nashville: When You’re Tired of Breaking Other Hearts sticker on GetGlue 5163... http://t.co/k4dktxcFcK
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Photo: I just unlocked the Psych: 100 Clues sticker on GetGlue 7921 others have also unlocked the Psych: 100... http://t.co/V5ZslzOdNK
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Ethics reform now includes incumbent-protection provision - http://t.co/dsvTGV9Xdo (for @rickhasen among others)
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Next repair shop that breaks the TPMS sensor on my wheels is getting an earful. Another awesome gov't mandate.
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Interesting. I got bored enough to root my device and flash CyanogenMod 10.1 (nightly 20130312, the latest I could find at get.cm, based on AOSP 4.2.2) and while I haven't had the chance to test it out in an LTE area yet, the CellInfoLte API seems to be returning something in my app at least: 03-23 16:42:42.425: D/HomeActivity(11499): CellInfoLte: mRegistered=YES mTimeStampType=unknown mTimeStamp=9223372036854775807ns, LteCellIdentitiy:android.telephony.CellIdentityLte@7fffff65 mMcc=2147483647 mMnc=2147483647 mCi=2147483647 mPci=2147483647 mTac=2147483647, CellSignalStrengthLte: ss=2147483647 rsrp=2147483647 rsrq=2147483647 rssnr=2147483647 cqi=2147483647 ta=2147483647 It's all invalid values, of course, since I'm not in an LTE area. But my reading of the code paths is that it wouldn't populate anything at all if the LTE API didn't work on the device.
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Photo: I just unlocked the The Incredible Burt Wonderstone Box Office sticker on GetGlue 3701 others have... http://t.co/77kQIRZtDa
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Now it all makes sense... Mikulski gets fawning @daveweigel piece in exchange for killing polisci research. http://t.co/bkxynma7EB
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I'm sure SoftBank sounds awesome in Japanese (remember, in Asia, they often use English for the sound value rather than the meaning of the underlying words). They could do what Deutsche Telekom did and use something like "SB Mobile." Or, somewhat out of left field, they could use some variation of Clear, like "Clear Mobile." That said I think Sprint has a decent name; it goes well with their major sponsorships, like the NASCAR Sprint Cup. It just needs to be positioned a bit more upmarket, maybe with a branding refresh (swap out the font for something a bit more "serious" like Helvetica Condensed and come up with some new logo swoosh since nobody remembers the pin-drop). And with T-Mobile (+ metroPCS) edging downmarket, that may not be as hard to do as we might think.
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Cool & unexpected: Science Ch @MarsCuriosity documentary tonight used some @MassEffect music tracks (Galaxy map, ME3 Mars mission at least).
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The other S/BS can & do study political questions with NSF support. So objection can't be to social scientific study of politics.
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Because of VZW's 750 tower spacing, I'd expect a lot of folks can't get Verizon LTE at decent speeds inside buildings either. There are always going to be places where Verizon will have better coverage than Sprint, and there are always going to be places where Sprint has better coverage than Verizon. And, given that Sprint probably isn't putting ESMR LTE on every tower either (we haven't seen the FITs yet, but my guess is Sprint will be preferring range over density to improve its POPs coverage numbers and cut data roaming costs), the building penetration "win" probably will be less than people are anticipating, particularly given the fragility of LTE compared to 1X.
