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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.

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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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.

I'm looking forward to seeing this play out. This could finally give them the upper hand against cable in big cities. If they can offer an internet bundle with sattelite tv instead of partnering with phone companies for DSL, it will be good for competition.

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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. Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

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.

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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...

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. Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

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.

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?

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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/

Yeah, this is on the 2100 mah extended battery. I hope they wake up and put that battery in from the start when sprint gets it. Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk

by Scott Johnson Sprint 4G Rollout Updates Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 4:09 AM MST The Kindle changed the way many of us purchased and read books. Amazon may have seen the way iTunes and iPods changed the way consumers purchased their music. Consumers were moving away from physical CDs and towards digital media that could be delivered electronically without the trip to the store or even the trip to Amazon.com to have the CD shipped to their house. Amazon created an ecosystem, complete with free 3G on certain models to access their purchased books in “the cloud” at any time. Now the Kindle Fire has thundered in and added music and video to its arsenal. Amazon has carefully built an app store, mp3 store and instant video streaming to add to its digital bookstore. Amazon also modified the open sourced Android platform to give consumers a user friendly interface that brings their digital content delivery to the front line. Then Amazon changed the way electronics were sold by selling their Kindle’s and Kindle Fire’s at or around cost. The result of their work was a tablet that some analysts estimate sold 5-6 million units in Q4 2011. Analysts also estimate that Amazon generates $136 in revenue from their app, music, video and book stores per Kindle Fire. Furthermore, possibly due to the simplicity and ease of use, Fire users purchase over two and a half times the apps than other Android tablet users. Developers are loving the Fire, the current fastest growing platforms for developers is the Kindle Fire and Windows Phone platforms. Amazon has done what the wireless carriers, and Google to a certain point, have struggled mightily to do with their digital marketplace. They have even introduced Amazon Prime, which gives subscribers access to a Netflix-like video streaming service, a Kindle book lending library, and free two day shipping on all their Amazon.com orders. All of this makes the wireless carriers attempts to generate revenue from their digital media marketplaces look like a failure. What's next for the Popular Kindle Fire Series? Amazon is rumored to be placing orders with Foxconn for a 10 inch Fire. Could this be a sign of things to come? Citigroup’s Taipei-based hardware research analyst Kevin Chang believes “an Amazon Smartphone will be launched in 4Q12.” With their ability to sell units at a low profit margin or even a loss and make money on content delivery, they could be a major player in the low end smartphone market. On the major carriers, the subsidy could easily bring an Amazon Fire Phone to free on contract. The prepaid world would be another market that Amazon could exploit. Prepaid carriers thrive on the low end and low cost smartphones. The app store would likely still see plenty of use, but with a smaller screen, the amount of books and video purchases could tail off. There is no question that Amazon has built their platform into a success. They have designed a marketplace that is easy to use, motivates users to buy additional content and wraps nicely into their existing business promoting users to buy household goods from their online marketplace. While Amazon has a Kindle app, music app, app store etc., they don’t work nearly as well as standalone apps as they do when they are all wrapped into one user friendly package. Amazon could remove itself from the device building industry and license the “Fire” platform to device companies like HTC or LG to build devices while still retaining the content delivery profits. They would most likely need to remove the traces of Android from their new operating system, or work out a patent licensing deal with Google for use of their version of Android. Could Amazon boldly become a Quasi-Wireless Carrier? Still another option for the retail giant would be to purchase large amounts of mobile data from wireless providers or wholesalers and bundle it with the digital delivery to provide “free” downloads of music or video. There is already a cost difference between SD and HD digital video; the additional bandwidth cost could be built right into the price of the video. It wouldn’t be the first time that they provided free data for downloading purchased content. Several models of Kindle have included a 3G radio for downloading books onto the device (but any other data usage was limited to WiFi only.) They could even start a MVNO with their device lineup. Customers of Amazon are normally looking for a bargain from a reputable name; just the Amazon name behind a prepaid or postpaid MVNO would sell plans thanks to their clout in the marketplace. Whatever direction Amazon decides to travel, they have struck success with a first generation device. This is a very difficult thing to do with the competition level as fierce as it is today. Apple owns the tablet market currently, but Amazon has certainly inserted itself near the top of the Android platform and has shown that their Fire platform is a major player in the tablet market. Sources: ReThink Wireless, ReThink Wireless, AllThingsD, IntoMobile.com Photos courtesy of CBS interactive and PC World.