Palan

Inside tj max in Rockland, NY

I just ordered an htc one m8 to replace my iphone 5. I'll see if I like it and will ofcourse see how triband has progressed since I last tried an lg g2 4 months ago.

How widespread is band26 in Brooklyn? My wife has a 5S and it never catches b26.

Your sprint phone was an iPhone 5?

 

The reason I ask is that even my iPhone sometimes gets stuck in a never-never land where it idles on 1x while my Spark phone sits pretty switching bands.

Really, 1x? Sprint has pretty much 0 1x outdoors unless you are on the edge of signal. But then again, you are on an iPhone. Today, I went to the movies by the WTC with a friend and his iPhone 5S (on Sprint) got stuck on Extended 3G whereas my M8 switched back to native 3G and then Band 41.

Interesting, I'm assuming for the aboveground part of the trip?

 

I find that Spark is solid on the 7, to Court Sq at least.

They probably thought that they'd be signing up a new customer when they saw you walking in! Their reaction was probably something along the lines of: 

 

I'm curious, was there a restocking fee with that test drive?

Tmobile rep was shocked when I went to return the phone, I said tmobile wasent really better for me. He was like "your the first to say this coming from sprint"

Which train?

Ok so I did some tests on the train ride to work. Tmobile is better on the train that's for sure. At work it's pretty much even in speed. Conclusion is I'm not overly impressed with tmobile and won't be switching for sure. I wish I has triband to test but I don't right now.

How is wifi calling a big advantage for T mobile. I have been making wifi calls since 2010 with Google voice. LOL talk about misinformation. Anyone using Google voice can make wifi calls for free.,

Update on day 3 with tmobile. I was at the ceaser bay plaza in Brooklyn. Inside toys r us tmobile had lte but sprint did not. In kohls it was the opposite. Sprint had lte and tmobile had unusable 4g

Yeah I have an M8.

just a quick question about the m8. Is there anyway to hide the soft keys while watching a video in the browser? I noticed that in the browser when launching a video the soft keys stay.  They disappear in apps like IMDB or youtube.

Paynefanbro you have an htc one?

Day two with tmobile. I went to a couple of stores to see indoor coverage. This was on neptune ave and around west 5th st.

I went into rite aide and cvs and some other store. Overall sprint had better indoor coverage and better speeds.

I was surprised that when tmobile iPhone switched to 4G aka HSPA it was pretty slow, like around 1mb/s. So far I'm not impressed.

My final test will be at work. I will also test the train to work where sprint loves to stick to slow ass 3g most of the ride. 

Im basically testing only where i go, not new places where i normally don't go. 

forgot to add that speeds were very comparable when outside. Im surprised by how close the speeds are. 5-12 mb/s outside today for both. indoor tmobile had trouble passing 3 mb/s. sprint was around 6-7mbs indoor where i tested. i can imagine that a triband phone would blow away tmobile where i live. 

Here is a speed test I did just now.

Ok so I got the iPhone from tmoble to test drive today. I'll start with speed at my apartment. I live next to luna park in Brooklyn. Speeds inside are very similar between sprint and t mobile. Average is around 3-5 mb/s. I went outside for some time to see how it was around the neighborhood. Basically they are good in different areas, one place sprint would get 14mbs and tmoble would get 4mbs. Another place it would be reversed. Though I did notice that tmoble has better coverage on the boardwalk. So far not totally impressed with tmoble considering I'm not even using a triband phone. I'll see how speed is at work on Monday and will update.

I tweeted john legere just for fun and said sprint passed tmobile in Manhattan. He blocked me lol

Its finally happened!!!! Sprint overtook Tmobile on

 

Next...Verizon!!

But john legere says no

Yesterday some friends and I drove to New Jersey from Brooklyn to a movie theater. On my iphone 5 I had lte throughout the whole ride with speeds around 10mb/s. It's was pretty solid. We drove over the Verrazano bridge and outer bridge.

i have the g2 and g3 and the g3 performs a lot better switching bands, with the g2 i had the same issue not connecting to lte and having to toggle airplane mode to recover my signal

 

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You guys haven't answered my question though. How does it perform with spark. I get it's a great phone and all. I'm more interested about what I mentioned in my original post.

How does the htc one m8 perform? I heard some things about not receiving calls when on data? Overall how does it perform. Incase the iphone 6 does not have band 41 I would switch to an htc one. I tried an lg g2 just to see spark and it had trouble switching between bands. It would get stuck on no service until I toggled airplane mode.

definitely interested to hear your findings with this. one thing I can definitely say is that T-Mobile's pricing becomes a whole lot less appealing when you factor in having to pay full price for every phone on your account