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so what it is the benefit to people who don't own 800Mhz phones

Anytime a customer can offload to another frequency it creates the potential for you to benefit. So even though you may not have a 800 mhz capable phone, those who do MAY offload to 800 mhz instead of sitting on 1900 mhz. A good example is what folks believe is going on with 2500 mhz right now. As people trade in their wimax phones for non wimax phones the 2500 frequency becomes less encumbered and the speeds start going up.

I called Sprint ...and talked to them about adding a line to my account without a phone, so they convinced me to get a new iPhone 4s instead and added a ported prepaid number that my daughter had...wound up being free. So instead of a used iPhone 4, I got her a new iPhone 4s. She is quite thrilled, but as a daddy, I'm afraid I'm stepping into something...with a pretty 12 year old daughter that has her own cell phone, I'm sure there will be boys. This young lady stuff is a new world for us. ...babies we know, working on the fourth infant ---- nearly toddler --- now. But we are almost at our first teenager. /scared/

 

Sent from my Wicked SGS3 dongled with a Commodore 64.

If I may suggest five items:

 

1) A cigar

2) A straw hat

3) A bottle of Jack Daniels

4) A rocking chair

5) A really nice 12 gauge shot gun.

 

That should solve the boy problem. Your daughter may hate you but she will get over it in 10 or 15 years

http://www.androidce...-inch-butterfly

 

Maybe they are planning a slightly larger device.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/HTC-Butterfly-2-HTC-Butterfly-J-2-revealed-from-OTA-test_id42262

Don't forget that one tower configured properly can cover 8+ miles. But you're a sponsor, you can compare the maps yourself.

Wow. It does indeed look to be about 50% deployed. So does that mean that the towers are at little to no downtilt? I ask because there seems to be conflicting opinions concerning this.

In the NV thread, it's by market but I was comparing maps inside the interstate loops of the market towers, and NV compete towers.

 

Sent from my HTC ONE

Hmmmm. Looking at Sensorly would indicate a much higher than 50% completion for the city. But thats just my opinion.

I'm sure the LTE coverage is very good, or Sprint wouldn't have launched. But if you look at the number of completed towers in the city, vs the number of towers that actually cover the city, the number of towers currently complete is likely only between 30 and 50%.

Are the numbers are broken down for the city or the market?

Other than the completion of NV phase one and the beginning of Phase 2 I would like to see:

1) No rate increase

2) Continuation of unlimited data

3) Additional add ons to increase the value of the plans

4) Cozying up with a Telco so that Sprint can guarantee a least one region that they will never have a problen upgrading the backhaul again! (Centurylink?)

Does having a bad 3G signal kill the battery? Charging stops or even declines while plugged. I now just turn off data connectivity in order to successfully recharge the phone.

Yes, but I have never experienced it draining the battery faster then it can be recharged especially if you are using an outlet.

I wouldn't say that Charlotte is fully deployed, far from it. But there's enough coverage that Sprint officially acknowledged it. The coverage will continue to improve over the next several months.

 

 

 

Having the save problem haha. Power button, charging port, and home all feel off ... For now. Getting used to it.

 

Sent from my HTC ONE using Tapatalk 2

The Charolotte Market may not be fully deployed but the city is atleast darn close. I travelled to several places in Charlotte over the weekend and the only place I could not get an LTE signal at was on I-485 on its North East route.

Can anyone else do a few tests and watch (ahem, have a passenger watch) the Sensorly Sprint LTE map and see if, given that the One is connected to LTE, it drops it before other phones have or holds it about as long?

 

I'm going to try to do a few more of these today. Since I don't have a car dock yet, is the cup holder the best option? I want to test without my hand being a factor.

I can tell you that in a fully deployed area(Charlotte)the LTE performance between the Evo and the One are indistinguishable outdoors. You will probably see a significant difference in those markets that are being deployed.

I got the one from HTC, the dip flip. I'm looking to see if any other ones out there seems nice. I'm liking the Dip Flip though. There are many bumper cases in amazon, for $10 or less.

 

Now if you're looking for protection then otterbox is your best bet.

 

-Luis

Thanks for the help guys. Ordered an HTC cover from Sprint today.

any recommendations on cases not called Otterbox?

I will have to check this out for my self. looks like the wake forest area is on track to get sprint LTE soon. I don't like calling it the Research Triangle Park due to still being stuck with sub par ISP's like time warner cable. Even comcast is better than them and they just don't seem to care about there network very much. Why didn't we get google fiber if we are such a tech area or at lest better than 50/10 that has poor uptime, really never get's close to that speed and throttles the living crap out of you for using youtube.

 

Or does stupid stuff like this: http://speedtest.net.../2659023349.png

 

I now feel so ashamed when I have to visit my cousins/annt with comcast paying half what I do, getting the speeds they paid for and better uptime along with not getting throttled up yours for using youtube.

 

But any ways I think it's cool AT&T/verizon won't be the only LTE players any more.

I think the counties are not paying much attention to it...yet. I live in a nearby county and i got the usual lip service when I complained about sub par ISP's. However, at some point in the near future, if it has not happened yet, North Carolina will be "deregulating" the cable services. Let me see if I can pull up the specifics.

 

 

Here you go:

http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2006/09/01/nc-nj-approve-cable-franchise-reform

https://prodnet.www.neca.org/publicationsdocs/wwpdf/61912nrri.pdf

Was in Charlotte this weekend and all I can say is both phones readily picked up LTE. I wish I could have convinced my wife to run sensorly.

This is the official promoting AJ's post....errr post.

http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-342-updated-all-for-htc-one-htc-one-for-all/

 

Got the One for the wife yesterday and she promptly filed divorce papers so she could marry it! i got to play with it and it is a pretty slick phone. Taking a road trip today. I will see if I can convince the wife to run sensorly the entire time.

Best buy sent my wife an email telling her that her ONE will be ready in the morning. Perfect timing seeing as she just shattered the screen on her Evo 3D.

This is above the spectrum screen - why would it not be approved? Frankly, more than one company should offer 2.6 service.

I would be extremely surprised if VZ planned to actually utilized that spectrum.

Erroneous information can even be included in intelligence briefings.

We're already ahead of the game on this, actually Sensorly will tell you that this old news. I'm just going to say before it gets asked, nothing special happens on this day. No magical switch is thrown on supposed sites they are holding back. Deployment continues as planned. The only difference you will see is on the Sprint.com coverage maps and Sprint reps can open tickets with issues on the completed sites. That's it.

Actually, this brings up a question. Somewhere on this site it was stated that the panels initially have zero to no downtilt. After an area is complete Sprint dials in the downtilt. So is the downtilt dialed in when a market is considered 100% complete or when the market is announced?

<br /><br />I just added my name to a HTC One pre-order list at a Sprint Corporate store and they were only taking orders for the silver.<br /><br /><br />Question...do you think the silver version looks macho enough

HA! The phone is for my wife and she wants the silver one!

I really want to order another HTC One in black.

 

Anyone know the best place to grab One (off contract)?

I went to both best buy and a sprint corporate store. They both said that I could not preorder a black one and they had no eta on its availability.

Yes, just remember what it came with. It came with a lot of debt. Alltel had very little debt. I also wanted them to acquire USCC and a few other regionals. Sprint could have also acquired some of the Nextwave spectrum that Metro acquired.

 

It took Sprint, what, 8 years to reband? Meanwhile they replaced Nextel postpaid customers with prepaid customers. I think that Alltel/USCC customers would have stayed with Sprint and I think they would have added some postpaid customers.

 

 

PCS G block is it's own band. Nobody else uses it. Sprint already had quite a lot of BRS spectrum of its own.

While i am not a fan of the nextel merger, realize what Sprint got in return. They got some 800 mhz AND they got some 2600 mhz because of rebanding. In the end I dont think Nextel was a total disaster. Simply acquiring the 800 frequency saw to that.

How do you get this $50 off deal? So your getting it for $149?

Best buy ran a promotion around the beginning of the year. All you had to do was signup and you would get $50 off a cell phone purchase at any point during the year.

I had this problem arise right after two major updates. Wiping the phone offered temporary relief. My issue was resolved after the last jelly bean update.