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The Galaxy S4 is running 4.2.2, so it should expose the standard Android Physical Cell ID (0-503) and the global Cell ID (hex) APIs when it is released. Hopefully the S3 and Note 2 will also get upgraded to 4.2.x likewise. I tried to poke around in the Samsung field test APK and everything I could see that exposed radio information was privileged calls; no non-system app can access them AFAICS. (Frankly this speaks to Samsung having better security than HTC... I can get a lot of info from the HTC API on the EVO 4G LTE that my app probably didn't have permission to access through the Android APIs.)
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I chose the wrong career RT @AnnaKendrick47 A man fixing your computer is the new chopping firewood; makes a lady feel safe and warm. #Swoon
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So, I guess Hillary Clinton is two days more bigoted than Rob Portman? Is that how that works?
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Over/under on how many competitors die live on ESPN this week at X Games Tignes? #hungergames
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Where's Hayden Panettiere to break down this matchup at halftime? #ABC #Nashville #synergy #fail
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Looking forward to discovery in this case... RT @walterolson Iran regime: we'll sue over "Argo" [CNN] http://t.co/Z6PzO3zoJT
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Photo: I just unlocked the Psych: Lassie Jerky sticker on GetGlue 5805 others have also unlocked the Psych:... http://t.co/p0NPvksStV
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If they're planning on putting LTE on some of their ESMR, that can't be spectrum they need for their legacy, high-mast iDEN PTT. Ultimately the question is whether they see SLinc as an ongoing, separate business that needs a native broadband network to compete in the 21st century marketplace (which means a build-out of LTE on low-mast sites like a traditional cellular carrier, most likely) or a specialty PTT network they use internally and sell space on for other people that need that capability regionally but are content to leave broadband data at the whim of T-Mobile (which means weak coverage in most of the SLinc footprint outside the 100k+ cities). If strategy B is the way forward, they can spare some spectrum to sell to Sprint, which Sprint can then use to deploy 1xA + 5x5 LTE like in the rest of the USA. If strategy A is the way forward, they'd better hope that Motorola Solutions wants to build iDEN + 3x3 LTE ESMR + W-CDMA AWS/1900 phones just for them.
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OK this is just recycled Letterman RT @lenadunham This is my favorite store in NY, Just Shades. It only sells shades. http://t.co/Xpt604tJAE
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Certainly that's the plan as currently stated, and I think in the end they will go with 3x3 LTE in the southeast (my guess is that the UE today can do 3x3 LTE carriers, it's just not been tested for certification because nobody has deployed 3x3 LTE in AWS or 1900 or 700), if only because they can inflate their LTE POPs count by deploying it instead of EVDO. Then again there's always the possibility of a deal to obtain SouthernLINC's spare ESMR spectrum rather than SouthernLINC deploying LTE itself on it, to allow a full 5x5 carrier.
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That's great until T-Mobile shifts all of W-CDMA onto PCS to make way for LTE carriers on AWS. Won't happen overnight but there can't be that many AWS-only (or non-1900 at least) handsets left on the T-Mobile network. As for Sprint, the question is whether they need LTE on ESMR in the southeastern markets. Atlanta is probably the only place in the sharing region that spectrum constraints could be an issue, and outdoors the LTE on 1900 coverage is pretty dense already (even at 50%ish buildout). And, competitively... from Sprint's perspective, do you work with manufacturers trying to make 3x3 FD LTE come to the marketplace, in the process helping SouthernLINC deploy LTE in their spectrum too (nobody is going to commercialize 3x3 handsets for a customer base as small as SouthernLINC's), or do you try to bury, or at least not help, 1.4x1.4 and 3x3 to decrease the value of SouthernLINC's holdings? If I were Softbank/Sprint I'd almost be tempted to throw up some EVDO carriers on ESMR in the southeast; the phones and chipsets that can take advantage of it are already built, it gets you more data footprint and less roaming on coverage maps than LTE would, and most of the non-overlap between 1900 and ESMR is in fringe areas where EVDO is speed-competitive with LTE.
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What really is VoLte?
lordsutch replied to teamgs3's topic in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment
VoLTE is "better" in the sense that phone calls will be cheaper, because carriers won't need dedicated frequency space for voice traffic on towers, and can use the same technology to handle voice traffic as they can for data traffic, which will probably reduce per-minute pricing even more. The disadvantages relate to signal robustness (LTE's signal characteristics are better tuned for high-density urban areas than CDMA-1X or GSM were) and the general issues associated with a new technology (working out the bugs). Basically it's the same transition Sprint has gone through from Nextel Direct Connect (basically circuit-switched) to Sprint Direct Connect (QChat is SIP VoIP + quality-of-service + Qualcomm special patented magic to make the shutdown/connect more responsive). Having said that if anything VoLTE is less technically challenging than QChat, since people making phone calls can deal with connect/disconnect latency much better than walkie-talkie services can - people expect a phone call to take 20-30 seconds to be connected, while "walkie talkie" services are supposed to connect in milliseconds and so people start throwing things, complaining to customer service, and canceling their accounts when it takes much longer. -
Real question re soda ban: why did NYS assembly delegate so much police power to NYC to do such silly things in first place. #dillonsrule
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In fairness you could put a lot of names left of that greater-than symbol. RT @baseballcrank Oz summary: Mila Kunis > Hayden Christensen.
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Traffic jam on 15-501'd be more accurate. RT @CatawbaPolitics @ESPNCBB Duke. North Carolina. Do we need to say more? http://t.co/fPHI8KWzhW
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Still waiting for the apology from the Volokh crew for telling us about how awesome Ted Cruz was.
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The Goog may have contracted with Motorola for the alleged "Motorola X" pre-merger. Of the high-end Android manufacturers in the US, Motorola is the only one never to build a Nexus phone. That said Google I/O may be a bit soon for a new Nexus phone to come out. Something like a Nexus 7.7 tablet seems more likely for May.
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For the record, the reason why hard speed limits were adopted for highways in the US can mostly be traced back to the 1970s oil crisis. The only state since the NMSL was repealed to adopt a "reasonable and prudent" limit (which was reinstated due to the end of the NMSL) didn't have to go back to a hard limit due to driver behavior, but instead because the state courts ruled that the R&P standard was too arbitrary to enforce, so speeding tickets were impossible to issue. I also think digiblur reflects some basic human psychology: if you feel like you're paying for X, you either want to use most of it or feel hosed by paying for X when you get 50% of X, but it doesn't work that way for unlimited. For example, I'm annoyed with Sprint that the basic 2-line unlimited plan has 1500 minutes I'll never use 40% of, even though I'd probably end up paying around the same price for 750 minutes. In any event, I think unlimited is likely to stick around on consumer plans for the foreseeable future. That said a lower-rate, capped plan might be introduced as a "teaser" for competitive purposes and to drive up-sells.