jeffcarp

Let's not forget it that were talking about a so-called blogger who essentially rewrites an article sourced from yet another blog. The dude doesn't have much credibility to begin with if that's his MO.

How is it TMO's fault that it doesn't have lowband 3G spectrum?

Who cares who's fault it is? It's a competitive marketplace and few to no consumers will tolerate a bad user experience and then excuse it for a technical reason.

Why in the world would the LG G Flex 2 not support Sprint Spark out of the box?

Not being able to call most DSL broadband is a great political justification for municipal broadband efforts. The argument would simply be that no company is stepping up to provide it.

I don't follow your comment on not being able to roam until later this year. What triggers that?

Doesn't the LG G Flex 2 support 5? That should only be weeks away.

If that is the approach and this is a data only service with voice over IP, would the technology that allows switching between T Mobile and Sprint exist within the SIM card or will it require new technology within phones themselves? The reason that I ask is because I have a spare Nexus 5 that I was going to sell but I may just keep around to play with this service when it becomes available.

Maybe I missed this somewhere in the thread but I'm not realizing how a Google MVNO is going to be such a big draw.

 

What extra service can Google provide by being an MVNO that it couldn't do with its Nexus or Google play edition phones? Why are people going to want Google as thier service provider?

It could give Nexus hardware a big push since they don't have to worry about carriers deciding to adopt it or not and whether the carriers will support all of their features on it (such as wifi calling).

 

Google can also afford to operate it at break even to achieve whatever goals they have - something no other MVNO can do.

 

Clearly Google wants to control the delivery of their services across all platforms (wireless, wired, wearables, TV and autos).

I agree that Verizon has to maintain its margins but I would also argue that they simply want to keep them. They believe they have a premium brand and price accordingly. Other premium brands in other sectors rarely if ever engage in price wars with non-premium competitors.

True but that only lasts as long as 1) your customer considers you a premium brand and 2) they are still willing to pay for it.

 

Being a premium brand can breed resting on your laurels and that can bite a company quickly. There is such a fine line between behaving like a premium brand and being arrogantly out of touch with changing customer needs/wants.

Oh, that would be great. I was thinking more like wondering if I'd have it by April. It's been many years since I've bought a new phone from Sprint. Do they do online reservations with store pickup appointments now?

Does anyone have an educated guess as to how soon we will see this device for sale for Sprint? I am facing some troubles with my current LG G2 and I'm trying to decide if I want to reset and restore or just live with it until this device comes out.

T-Mobile affiliate iWireless is a member of the CCA. Its coverage is represented in the CCA coverage map.

Oh, so maybe I don't understand this deal then. So does the Sprint CCA partnership not include all of the CCA members?

You may be missing the point. This discussion has turned to a USCC variant handset, not a Sprint variant handset. The issue here has no bearing on roaming agreements, only on roaming capabilities for a specific device -- which, again, is a USCC variant. The Sprint variant is fully CCA/RRPP compliant.

 

AJ

I understand that. The point was (as I read it anyway) that the evidence of a USCC variant of the Flex 2 that didn't include CCA bands could be interpreted to mean that USCC wasn't planning on joining the CCA. If that interpretation ends up being correct then that is bad news for this Sprint subscriber.

The CCA website has a coverage map that shows nearly the entire state of Iowa covered. If USCC isn't in the CCA whose coverage are they representing?

I'm a Sprint sub and it concerns me. USCC roaming for Sprint customers would significantly enhance my Sprint experience in my area.

IIRC Root metrics data collection model has come under some fire.

If that is true, it would be important to know by who and for what reason.

I'm curious to know...which android auto head unit do you plan on installing and why.

 

Thanks

I am not sure yet but have some Google Alerts set up for the Pioneer, Kenwood & Parrot units that were announced at CES. Which one I ultimately select will be based on features and price. I have a bit of a unique application in that this will be replacing a 2-DIN Jensen unit in a motorhome which uses the touch screen for a backup camera image so I need to make sure that the device supports backup cameras.

 

I also do not have any steering wheel audio controls or voice recognition keys so I will need to pick one that provides all of that for me.

I think that I've decided this will be the device that replaces my G2. I can't find a good reason not to at this point. I need to have lollipop by the spring because I plan to install an aftermarket Android Auto deck so this phone seems like the winner.

Sprint's twitter account today said that the CCA has been active since November 2014. Is that accurate? What phones would be capable of that since November if true?

I am out of the upgrade mode on the new plans with 3 lines on LG G2's all bought from Swappa. I've basically decided not to do any upgrades from the G2 unless it is fully CCA compliant. I'm really in no hurry unless roaming with US Cellular goes live and then I would buy something the next day.

As new phones are announced at CES and other upcoming shows is there a complete list of bands somewhere that I can compare to the new phone announcements, to see if the new handsets are fully CCA compliant? I am particularly interested in knowing that the next phone I buy could handle the speculation of a US Cellular LTE roaming agreement as they are huge in my market.

So is it confirmed that this phone is full CCA compliant? I live in a market where if the speculation about US Cellular joining CCA with Sprint is true, it would be a massive perk for me. Is this a safe phone to buy if that happens?

There is already a mechanism within the Android Wear app to turn off notifications for specific apps. Of course this stops all notifications for the app since there is no ability within Android Wear to be selective on the notifications within a given app. Perhaps you could just provide some education within your app so people know to add this restriction within Android Wear?

 

I've spent some more time looking at this tonight. SignalCheck Pro is definitely not in the list of Wear applications on the watch in the sense that it has a Wear component in the app that can be run from the watch. However, I think the issue may be related to notifications instead.

 

By default, any app that throws a notification on your phone also shows that notification on the watch. In reviewing what I did this morning, I changed the settings for Android Wear to stop notifications on the watch for the SCP app. I removed that restriction tonight and the battery life problem did return almost immediately.

 

I am totally speculating here because I am not a developer or programmer. Could it be that your app, because of the dynamic information that it is providing in the Android notification bar, is almost constantly triggering a new notification on the watch every time your app updates the signal information on the phone?

 

When I turn off notifications on the watch for your specific app then the battery life problem completely goes away.

 

When I pull down the notification bar on the phone and I can sit and watch the various SCP numbers change dynamically, I wonder if there isn't a trigger of some sort that goes to the watch as a "new notification" every single time those numbers change.

Is the Android Wear capability of this app recently added? After some experimenting, I believe that this app is what was responsible for a sudden and massive battery drain on my Moto360. All of a sudden, in the last couple days, my watch went from getting 18 to 24 hours of battery life at an absolute minimum to about half of that. My watch is pretty much factory defaults except of course for the apps that I have on my phone that have Wear capability. I only have a few 3rd party apps with Wear capability and that list has been stagnant since I got the watch. I don't use any third party watch faces.

 

I don't have the latest watch firmware yet that is rolling out this week so I can't use the new feature that shows me specifically what is using the battery life however the only thing that has changed is the addition of this app's Wear capability.

 

The first two hours of this morning I was getting 10 to 12% battery life used per hour. That is what has been happening to me the last few days. At that point I noticed this app's Wear capability. I added this app to the list of apps to stop notifications for from within the Android Wear app on the phone. From that point on my battery life is back to about 3% per hour.