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One would think they would be similar to the GS3, but who knows...

How about CDMA800SMR? I found some site saying it only supported band class 0 in the 800 MHz range. http://pdadb.net/ind...te_samsung_gogh It also has a pile of GSM bands listed, so it could be another international phone, or that site could be all kinds of wrong...

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If you could finagle a swap of Viper for a Victory, it would be a victory. I don't imagine there would be a ton of developer support, but more than the Viper will see. Just one question... what if it doesn't support SVDO? You would probably come back here and fill 3 pages of frowny faces. P.S. Why did you post a picture of the iPhone? HAHAHA

I have had some relatively slow pings on Verizon.

Don't you buy that phone Josh... Stick to the flagships. LOL Seriously though, this sounds like a quite powerful, very nice midrange phone.

Yeah, I like a big fat case on my phone too. They make them awfully dainty. I wish someone would make a phone that was like the old Nextel phones and stuff a huge battery in there. I wouldn't care if my phone looked like a brick if I could get a week of battery life out of it. I'd probably still be able to put it in my pocket.

I didn't know what the "research triangle" was until I read about it on here.

100% misinformation.

Here are the first wave of NV benefits: 3G speeds will be improved on PCS - iPhone 5 will benefit from this Voice will be deployed on SMR - iPhone 5 will benefit from this LTE will be deployed on PCS - iPhone will benefit from this RRUs will be on the cell site directly behind the antennas reducing signal loss by up to 30% - all Sprint phones (including the iPhone 5) will benefit from this There are no phones currently in mass production that will benefit from LTE on SMR or LTE VIA Clearwire 2600MHz hotspot, so the iPhone 5 isn't losing anything on the competition there. I would say that the iPhone 5 will benefit from NV... Edit: you beat me to the punch...

Also, to add to this, I do not have ready access to see how many customers Sprint has on postpaid contracts in these markets. They could very well have a lower percentage of customers in some of the large metro areas that were "snubbed" and have a higher percentage in Baltimore, San Antonio, Kansas City, Austin and Central Jersey. Being as there is no 4G in Detroit and Phoenix, those cities could have fallen on the list of priority as they have been bleeding customers for several years in those markets. It is still somewhat of a priority, but not critical. All these decisions are based on making money. They can't afford to train enough workers to upgrade the entire network at once, so they have to start somewhere. With the exception of central Jersey and possibly San Antonio, I really don't see any flaws in their choices for the first round.

I don't understand why there is so much strife about Minneapolis not being on this list. It is a WiMax market, and the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area is the 16th largest metro area in the US. Here is a breakdown of the first round markets and where they rank on the US largest metro areas: New York City - 1 Los Angeles - 2 Chicago - 3 Dallas/Ft. Worth - 4 Houston - 5 Washington, D.C. - 7 Atlanta/Athens - 9 Boston - 10 San Francisco - 11 Baltimore - 20 San Antonio - 24 Kansas City - 29 (Sprint’s home market) Austin – 34 (Barely any work done besides the FIT test) Central Jersey - ? 9 of the top 11 largest metro areas in the US, their home market, a test market, and 3 other markets... Seems like a logical starting point to me. If anyone should have a beef with this schedule, and (partially) consider their market snubbed, it should be Philadelphia – 6th largest metro, Miami – 8th, Detroit - 13th (and no WiMax) and Phoenix – 14th (also no WiMax) Why should Sprint upgrade Minneapolis before those other markets? Because YOU live there? Come on...

You set off the chain reaction that exploded in the PRL thread... Nice job...

I heard that if you memorize your social security number, and don't wear a foil hat, that hackers can use a brain scanning machine to extract the information from your thoughts and steal your identy.

Samsung JUST started Minnesota, and it is a massive market. There are no sites complete, not because it is behind, but because it is a second round market. A very large percentage of these cities are part of the 1st round markets, which is why these "less important" cities are "getting LTE before big city _____"

With it being the same model as Verizon, I would say that it will be removable.

You guys realize that you can turn NFC off when not in use, so that the boogey man doesn't steal your information...

You started it... lol When I get back to my computer I will move them.

I'm pretty sure this whole discussion started with the iPhone being compared to 4Q 2010 tech. For the record, that is the "END of 2010." You are certainly entitled to think that the iPhone is cutting edge innovation, but nearly every component in the iPhone 5 was either in use in 4Q2010 on a smartphone (and being ridiculed by apple fanboys for being unnecessary) or in the R&D process to be released soon after. You are right about the 45nm chips. For some reason I was swapping 32 and 45 in my head. 32nm is much newer tech. In fact, this might be the first ARM A15 chip out there, so maybe this iPhone is pucshing innovation on some level. http://semiaccurate.com/2011/12/01/samsung-starts-sampling-world%E2%80%99s-first-cortex-a15/ I personally was looking forward to seeing SOMETHING new in the iPhone 5 announcement. It was a major disappointment that they just seemed to bring themselves up to roughly the same level as the flagship phones that were released months ago instead of pulling ahead. Either way, this conversation is completely off topic and should be continued in a different thread.