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    New chip with lte support

    in Misc.

    Posted

    Oh this thing is going to be amazing. I hope someone takes this and builds a gaming device. NVIDIA Tegra 3 + LTE. You could have a dock with a big screen and play games on it. I wish the Sony Xperia ion had this setup.

    Why is Sprint taking so long to come out with new phones

    in General Topics

    Posted

    Oh man if you've held that evo4g this long, then do everyone a favor and wait just a few more months and pick up one of the LTE devices they release. No way I'd waste an upgrade on a Wimax phone, esp a device that was released last year...

    Just my 2cents

     

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    Epic 4G Touch is an AWESOME phone. And you say "last year" as if it is already a year old or something. It was released in September...

    That said, jpkjeff, I would try to hold out for an LTE phone, but I wouldn't blame you for upgrading now to the E4GT. It will see ICS soon, but that is probably the last update it will get besides some random bug fixes. It is Sprint's flagship for the moment but it will be the next Samsung Moment once the LTE phones come out. If you are like me and have WiFi at home and work, you could probably "suffer through" the enhanced 3G speeds when away from WiFi once NV sweeps through your town. I wouldn't pay the $200 that the Sprint Store is charging for the E4GT though. I think I saw it on Amazon for $50.

    Virgin Mobile to begin throttling data

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    I agree...throttling trumps overage charges. But I'd prefer a hybrid. Exceed your cap, it starts to throttle. But if you get in a bind and need faster speeds while in your throttle period, I'd like an a la carte menu. Maybe for an additional $1, you can buy an hour unthrottled. For $5, you can buy 24 hours. For a week an additional $25. Something like that.

     

    That way I might stay under 2GB most months, but if I have to go over one month because my habits change temporarily, I have options.

     

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    I don't know... It's not like we have SMART phones or anything that would be able to handle that kind of thing. LOL I like that idea.

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    Virgin Mobile to begin throttling data

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    I hate throttling but I just read an article posted by a writer who was comparing his data usage since he upgraded to an iPhone (on an AT&T unlimited grandfathered plan) and showed his usage went from no more than about 700MB to almost 25GB (thanks to streaming video/music, of course).

    He then compared what he would have paid in overage fees on Verizon and AT&T if he had an existing plan, and it came out to over $200 in each case (he also did a theoretical overage estimate for Sprint if Sprint had an overage rate in place of what they do now on data cards and that one was the worst-over $1,200).

    Anyway, his point seemed to be that while throttling is awful, "bill shock" was even worse, but this just reveals the bizarre tack that mobile operators are taking: they love to advertise fast, slick new smartphones and also the data hungry apps they can access (Verizon specifically was advertising the fact that users could stream the Superbowl all last month) but fail to mention that just watching one movie or sporting even could easily burn through-or exceed-your monthly data allowance on all carriers except Sprint.

     

    Good point. We were having a discussion on this at work. Verizon's LTE is superfast. Netflix automatically adjusts picture quality to your connection speed. So if you are connecting with LTE, and don't have the settings adjusted to lower resolution, you could easily burn through a lot of data in a short time streaming netflix. I would rather have throttling than overage.

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    First Sprint LTE handset when?

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

     

    Would it make sense to announce a handset six months before a customer can buy it?

     

    There are only a few reasons I can think of to announce but not release. 1. You cannot sell it due to some contract. 2. You are waiting for the manufacturer to go through alpha beta and release candidate testing. 3. You are waiting for the manufacturer to provide sufficient stock that you can distribute and not have mass shortages.

     

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    First Sprint LTE handset when?

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    Almost makes me wonder if they didn't tease the Galaxy Nexus so that it would stop some customers from jumping ship just for the Nexus. Then make everyone wait until the Nexus is pretty much irrelevant to release it.

    There were reports of Verizon getting some kind of exclusive rights contract to the Nexus. Maybe it was a 6 month exclusive agreement? That would put the release date mid May, right after CTIA.

    First Sprint LTE handset when?

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    Found this on another message board. It actually makes a lot of sense.

     

    "3-23-10 EVO 4G announced

    6-4-10 EVO 4G available for sale

     

    3-21-11 Sprint Nexus S 4G announced

    5-8-11 Sprint Nexus S 4G available for sale

     

    10-18-11 Verizon G-Nex announced

    12-15-11 Verizon G-Nex available for sale

     

    1-9-12 Sprint G-Nex announced

    3-9-12 Sprint G-Nex available for sale?"

     

    If it is released in March, I would think we would be getting leaks very soon. I would probably put the release at April 15th. If they wait too long there will be pure anarchy in the Sprint community.

     

    Both the Nexus and the LG Viper have been hands-on tested (although I am not sure if the Nexus was the + model) They are probably sitting in a warehouse in some buy high sell low ploy by Sprint...

    First Sprint LTE handset when?

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    Their VP stated awhile ago they they expected LTE devices to hit market 3rd qtr this yr and could even be late 3rd at that...

    Was on engadget before CES but I remember this for sure.

     

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    I saw that too, but there is no reason they would wait until 3Q to release the nexus. The nexus would be nearly obsolete by then even with it being a plus model. The next nexus would likely be coming out 4Q.

     

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    Will you buy the galaxy nexus? Or wait for a quad core?

    in Samsung

    Posted

    One thing to consider when shopping, that I didn't even consider, is that ICS is built around the Galaxy Nexus highlighting the strengths and minimizing the weaknesses. Another phone may have better "stats" but it all depends on how ICS plays with the hardware. The nexus line has a clear competitive advantage there. This probably all goes out the window when the next version of windows is designed around another hardware setup, but by then it won't matter, you won't expect a year-old phone to be the top dog anymore.

    Will Apple increase the screen size on the iPhone?

    in Apple/iPhone/iOS

    Posted

    I was told that Steve Jobs swore that the iPhone would never grow to where the average person couldn't operate it with one hand. I'm not sure how important that is to anyone. I can operate my galaxy nexus with one hand and that dwarfs the iPhone, but then again, my giant paws are not the size of the average person. Frankly, when using my phone with one hand, I felt like I was more prone to dropping it. So why is it then, that Apple has kept with the smaller form when Android phones keep getting bigger and bigger to the point where they are blurring the lines between tablet and phone.

     

    One reason could be that Apple prides itself in the density of the pixels of its screens. It would be much more expensive to build a 4.5 inch screen at that pixel density. But it would be a thing of beauty.

     

    Apple also prides themselves in the life of their battery. A larger screen would drain battery much quicker, although they would have more room for a larger battery if the form factor was larger.

     

    The device size would increase if they increased the screen size. I don't know how important having a small phone is in the marketplace. The top selling non-iPhone smartphones from December are the Galaxy SII and Epic 4G Touch variant (4.52") Galaxy Nexus (4.65") Droid RAZR (4.5") and Amaze (4.3") so it appears that bigger is better.

     

    Apple may be left with no choice but increase the size of the iPhone if the LTE antennas won't fit. But will they increase the size regardless if they redesign the iPhone and come out with the iPhone 5 this year?

    T-Mobile joining the LTE party, finally...

    in Network, Network Vision/LTE Deployment

    Posted

    Deutsche Telecom has decided to go ahead and fund a LTE buildout for its T-Mobile network. Why, after investing so heavily in its own form of 4G, HSPA+?

    The reason could be: that thanks to the $3B and spectrum from AT&Ts breakup fee, they have the means to do it without a large investment by DT, 4G LTE roaming agreements could have been part of AT&T's breakup fee, that they lost nearly a million customers to other networks in the fourth quarter of 2011, they could be partnering with Clearwire for wholesale LTE, they could finally be receiving the iPhone but Apple will not put anything but a LTE radio for 4G in the iPhone 5. It could be any or all of those reasons.

     

    Any way you look at it, having all the major carriers using the same technology can only be a good thing when you think that someday there could be LTE roaming argeements and devices that can access LTE on any frequency.

     

    http://allthingsd.co...ch-lte-in-2013/

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