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Oops! I didn't realize I asked on the same page ... I've been busy lately! I didn't think I had time to do that before.

Are we still sure it'll get 4.2? I really want the group messaging!

I saw a report in the newspaper about the Moto X being made in the USA, and they showed a price breakdown of about $225 to manufacture the phone. Why, then, does Sprint charge $549.99 for the no upgrade price? Does it cost the carrier that much more to purchase it from Motorola?

But will it still get Android 4.2? I'd really love to have native group messaging support, a la iMessage.

Hm, interesting. That explains some things! Is the only way to change the scan time to root it?

I like Chrome a lot better than the stock browser from HTC. Plus it syncs my bookmarks and recent pages!

I've thought that, too, with my EVO LTE. There are some places where I KNOW there is LTE, yet it stays on 3G. In the same places, sometimes it will connect on its own, other times I have to reset the connection with Signal Check Pro. I was assuming it was just related to the "poor reception" that everyone claims plagues the EVO LTE.

Thanks, that was really helpful! About a month ago, I saw digging and all kinds of orange conduit all over the ground near where I know there's a fiber line. A few days later, I was roaming for about a day and a half, and then it came back on and I was getting the 1.5+ speeds. Then two weeks later was when it slowed down again, and has been ever since. So, that's why I assumed that there was new backhaul in place. I don't know how many T1's there are. What should 3G speeds be like that have new backhaul installed? >2.0 Mbps and up? Sites that I assumed had new fiber backaul, I've seen get between 1.5 and 1.8 Mpbs...including a site that's now 3G/4G accepted and broadcasts LTE. If crews dug lines and ran new fiber lines, what's the hold up in connecting them? When I saw the digging, I saw crews working at the site for at least 2 days. They were at the base, though, not near where the digging occurred. I don't know if they were inside the fence, though, or not.

I consider "late fall" fairly soon in the scheme of things! The problem with the sites that have been launched in the Lehigh Valley is that they are very scattered, so you only get small little blips here and there. There seems to be a pretty solid network, though, forming in the Wescosville area near Route 222/78 and south and west.

The tower near my house got 3G NV upgrades about a month ago, and it was awesome... 1.6+ Mbps down. The past two weeks, it seems it's gone back to legacy speeds...500-700 kbps on average, with slower peaks. Is it possible to go back to legacy equipment? I thought after NV upgrades, the legacy stuff was removed. There was a time, right before it seemed to revert to legacy, that the upload speeds were atrocious, while still having "new" 3G. Perhaps this could be why it went back to legacy equipment?

I feel like part of the problem is probably a capacity issue - Williamsburg/Hampton Roads is one of the top vacation spots in the country. Heck, I drove around the Premium Outlets looking for a parking space for at least 20 minutes on Saturday. There were only two spots where I actually connected to LTE - the mini golf in the parking lot of the Kmart on Route 60, and Mama Steve's House of Pancakes on Richmond Road. Unfortunately I was driving the rest of the time, so I don't know if my phone actually connected to any of the sites that are supposedly live along I-64 and Route 13 leading up to the bridge tunnel.

The sponsor maps show the towers are only upgraded to 4G so far ... they've done next to nothing to the 3G network in the area. It shows!

I was on a weekend trip to Williamsburg this weekend. I managed to get LTE around the area of the Kmart on Route 60, but that was it! 3G service was AWFUL. Not usuable whatsoever. At the Premium Outlets on Route 60 near Route 199, service was so bad I couldn't even send texts. I kept roaming switching between Verizon and nTelos. Could not send a text on nTelos to save my life. (Granted, there were tons of people at the outlets, but still.) I really was disgusted with the state of things down that way. On the other hand, I had LTE in all the little podunk places on Route 13 on the Eastern Shore of VA. Go figure.

I got my Evo LTE in January '13. I'm always getting phones JUST on the edge of something really great - GS4 came out a few weeks later.

You've never been paying for "4G", that's just what dumb CS reps say. It's a premium data charge. Every carrier charges it now. It just happened to come about around the same time that 4G Wimax was coming out, so people thought it was for 4G.

My stepdad's company, which only has a few (maybe 5?) phones in this country, just switched from Sprint to Verizon... for a ridiculous reason. The person in charge of the phones didn't have them on an unlimited data plan and they went one month. She got pissed off, and switched them all to Verizon. My guess is they pay FAR MORE with Verizon now than they did before, so it makes me chuckle.

The district I teach in has a network just for students, but it also blocks Facebook, youtube, etc. But, students are encourage to bring their own device, as long as it is 7" or greater in size (basically ruling out all phones ... although some of the new ones are pretty close to that.) Phones are not allowed (high school) for all the obvious reasons. I've seen far too many tweeting/texting/sexting (esp. the latter) issues between kids at school that gets them in to trouble.

I've seen this problem for a while, I think it has to do with the phone. Some phones (seems like dumbphones) put in the (1/2) etc., but every smartphone I've ever used hasn't. When I get a long text from someone with Verizon, I usually get the ending part first, but they come right away. My sister's Sprint GS2 puts the text numbers, but my EVO LTE does not. When the GS2 does it, I receive them on my EVO LTE as one text.

It's prorated by days.

Yes.

LTE working great in the Fogelsville area! Also connected to it near East Greenville yesterday and at one point got something about 22+ Mbps down. Awesome!

Only the 3rd line was on a different device. The first 2 were on the same one (got switched back and forth when the new device didn't work).

So, the bill has come, and here's the results... No overages. Very interesting!

I bought a Mifi 4082 on eBay last year, and Sprint still made me sign up for a 2 year contract.

It'll come, just be patient. Lebanon/Hershey/Harrisburg is part of the Shentel market - an affiliate not owned by Sprint. They've been doing an awesome job and it's what we can look forward to once NV is complete. Hey, Reading at least got Wimax, right? We never even got that in the Lehigh Valley!