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    Will Galaxy Nexus have both wimax and LTE radios?

    in Samsung

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    I agree, however, sprint did say no more handsets with wimax (the article is floating around S4GRU somewhere). And, honestly, It might be a good thing, that is 10 dollars per line that will go right into Sprint's pocket instead of having to split it with Clear. I'd just rather see Sprint see the revenues increase so that NV will be more likely continue the high speed pace through 2013.

     

    Post 4 in this thread has the link and quote... just saying

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    WiMax Signal Booster

    in WiMax

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    It's great when your school's internet crawls at an embarrassing 6mbps, tries to monitor you like the Chinese Golden Shield, and drops the connection completely on a daily basis.
    do you work for the army too?

     

    Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

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    At Sprint, Directors Watch CEO Closely

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    Note: S4GRU Members can only edit their posts for 30 minutes after posting...or an hour. Something like that. Sponsor members can for a longer period. S4GRU Contributing Authors can infinitely edit their posts.

     

    - Robert

    I would bet I edit my posts an average of 2 times after posting. LOL
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    At Sprint, Directors Watch CEO Closely

    in General Topics

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    Alright, first of all, I am going to say that I am part of the 10% of smartphone users that wants the newest software and will root and will sometimes load up the alpha builds, even though I fully expect bugs, just because I am so curious about what future versions will bring. I can fully sympathize with Nexus S owners that you were promised quick upgrades, but beware the following soapbox rant:

     

    For every one smartphone user that is dying for the ICS update there are two people who don't want it. Why would someone not want an upgrade? Well, they finally have a phone with software that has all the bugs worked out. They might also enjoy the version of Android that they are on and not want to learn a whole new system. I have read that there is a huge fragmentation problem with iPhones because people don’t want to upgrade.

     

    My first example on Android: the Samsung Epic 4G. Owners of the Epic 4G were treated to a "long overdue" (in their words) upgrade from Froyo to Gingerbread. "Wait a minute, this software is buggy! Boo Samsung, I will never buy another Samsung, because they took forever to release gingerbread and when they did, it had bugs!" Of course there are bugs. It is a new OS on an old handset, you are going to have some bugs that didn’t surface in the Alpha and Beta testing and now that it hit release candidate and went all over the country, it reared its ugly head.

     

    I have come to realize that manufacturers don't owe the customer anything besides bug fixes. Any upgrade to the latest version of Android is a plus. The thing is, the manufacturer just wants to keep their customers happy. Just think if every manufacturer decided to stop releasing updates other than bug fixes.

     

    The only product line that promises updates to the latest version of Android is the Nexus line. They have failed Nexus S owners so far, but they are not holding it back as some giant tease. There are obviously issues and bugs that they are working out. The Nexus S owners that received the update are having battery life issues and an assortment of other bugs. I don’t blame Google for throwing the rest of the updates back into alpha testing or scrapping altogether and starting over. It takes Google about a year to design the next Nexus phone and write the next software. It still comes out with bugs. Why? Because everyone is screaming for the next Nexus and they have to cut their testing cycles shorter. Now everyone is screaming for Motorola, HTC or Samsung to “just give them ice cream sandwich already!” Well, what do you want? A polished relatively bug-free release candidate or a beta version that will require two or more bug-fix updates to get it polished? Then you run into data corruption issues because you are modifying modified software.

     

    The infancy of Android is behind (most of) us. Ever since Froyo’s release, Android has been a great operating system. There are minor additions with each new version, but as with iOS, most of the big changes come with the newest hardware, not software.

     

    I recently decided that I was done waiting for Samsung and upgraded my Galaxy Tab to Gingerbread, and I was amazed at how little was changed. It still is a 7 inch, Wi-Fi only tablet with cameras that aren’t very good, but it runs all my favorite apps. I guess it ran all my favorite apps before… Maybe if I upgrade to ICS it will make it suck less?

     

    P.S. I am sorry if I offended anyone with this post, but I had to quit reading XDA because people were getting on my nerves expecting the developers to give them ice cream sandwich ROMs. “Well the source code is out there, just do it already, what is taking you unpaid lazy !@%$ so long to just give us ICS already?” It costs the manufacturers a lot of money to rework the entire operating system, and they take a lot of heat for any bugs that surface after release. I don’t blame them for taking their time.

    WiMAX is on its way to obsolescence

    in WiMax

    Posted

    Here are some fresh numbers on the state of WiMax compared to HSPA and LTE. WiMax is going down the slow path to oblivion.

     

     

     

    http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/13/2868326/4g-smartphone-sales-numbers-lte-wimax-q4-2011

    I'm rather surprised that they were that close to LTE phones. Att and Verizon were selling LTE phones during Q4. As far as HSPA+, ATT and T-Mobile were both selling them and I wonder if all the iPhones count in that number.

     

    Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

    Galaxy S lll allegedly to launch this April

    in Samsung

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    I cant wait to see this thing! (Edit) I have a feeling the G-Nex will hit Sprint at least a couple months before this is released though.

    I agree. Sprint will probably need a couple months to come up with a longer name than the Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch.

     

    Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

    Clearwire not deterred by China Mobile setback.

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    The FCC should require carriers to be built out on a certain percentage of their spectrum holdings before they can even participate in auctions. Carriers like AT&T would be forced to build out or sell their inactive holdings if they want to participate. That is what is fair to customers and competitive balance, but with every perspective buyer they eliminate, the price has the tendency to drop and there is always the power of the almighty dollar...

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