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However, it is remarkable how long a smartphone battery lasts if you turn off data.

Yes. It causes me great pain to watch him suffer. Always in search of WiFi. He has the Atrix 4G too with the lapdock (the only reason I can't talk him into a Photon), it's quite a neat setup but very underutilized with the restricted data.

Windows 8 prior to 2013 or right at the beginning. Sounds very exciting. Also Tizen has been interesting to me for a while. Great article. Great post supert0nes.

With that system, get it up to 3 or so gigs of RAM before thinking about a GPU. You're going to be bottlenecking so hard on that 1.5GB I don't personally see a point in getting a new GPU. Also, you'll probably be topping out that PSU no matter which GPU you'd get which is not good.

Sprint's draw is "simple" I think. The only way they could go to limited is if they kept it simple. With newer phones with precise and easy data monitoring it's not such a big deal anymore. There is a part of me though that feels my sister and my mother's phones should be charged less than mine and my father since we use a gig or more (I use 5 ) a month and they rarely use over 10MB. And on that note, how is premium data even premium anymore? Sprint sells like 3 non-smart phones and they're basically 3 year old hardware. I want a "non-premium" discount or a "responsible user" discount if I use a small amount of data. Though my wishes don't align well with concepts like profit margins. It would be cool if there were Sprint WiFi spots like ATT does. Limited free tethering would be sweet too.

I'm from the country and when you get a strong signal the speeds are always decent.There just aren't too many people connected. Before data was an issue at all though, sometimes when we were out at some friend's house we would have to stand on the pickup truck to make a cell phone call. We would use the cordless phone but we had to leave the barn (where the chairs for sitting and talking about football and transmissions and the "beer fridge" was) after they started using the metal siding it just wouldn't have good signal to the base. So it was just as good to use the cell which would at least ring. And now you all know just how redneck my childhood was... Also thinking about it, I remember when someone rolled over a 4-wheeler in a creek on a nokia phone and it still worked, those memes are true. In the last three years though, college has put me in towns and cities with greatly fluctuating populations. It's funny to watch kids squirm in pain as Facebook loads forever (on any carrier) while trying to figure out how to make devices work on WPA2 enterprise and then sometimes getting a bad IP. As soon as school is out and the majority of the kids leave the area, bam speed. ...so yeah, non NV areas were fine until the everyone seemed to buy an iPhone at once.

I wouldn't mind data caps if overages weren't insane. My friend has 200MB on ATT and if he goes over he has to pay more than it would have cost to get the 2GB plan for that month. Why not have a set $/GB amount? That way you could associate your usage directly to a dollar amount and wager whether it is worth my money. The way so much of it is now is so clearly trying to screw over users rather than reducing use. I'm happy with Sprint. I rarely use more than 5GB per month but if I do, it's OK. Seriously, moving my thumb all the way over to the WiFi widget on my home screen is just too much, I can't be bothered with such a thing.

I don't know, but I think this post would be more at home in the "general" section.

Some other things I noticed after some time with the update... --negative - Messaging app loads more slowly. - Typing get's behind far more than it used to. - Resuming apps takes longer. --positive - Battery life is definitely improved. - Web pages seem to be a bit faster loading. - Less RAM used by OS.

You know, one of the only features I wanted changes was the ability to turn off the horrible sounds coming from the camera app. Gah!

Sorry for the mirrors, webcam.

Before updating, waiting for the magic battery level. battery level acheived. This part is taking a while Restarted the phone. Now we're rolling.

Downloading over WiMax as we speak. Will add images as soon as DropBox resumes service.

This is very true. I have two friends on the original iPhone plan on ATT. They both have an iPhone 4 now and that is a nice position to be in. One of these friends regularly uses over 8GB a month and would be in a bad position with a tiered plan. The other, while he rarely uses more than 2GB a month, says that he would hate having to worry about how much data he is using. Worrying about data kills the simplicity vibe of something like an iPhone and I think that is where Sprint is successful. Not much in the way of surprise charges.

So would this look pretty much the same as an ATT or Verizon LTE tower? I've seen some very similar looking towers in the Indianapolis area. I can never tell right now because there are so many towers anymore.

Alright. So a phone with no WiMax radio doesn't get WiMax. Can we close this thread now?

On Phone Arena, I measure the success of my comment by how many thumbs down I get. I only got three on that article. I've done better with up to five. That was about Nokia which seems to be the another very hated on company right now.

I'm running the Evo Design and I for one think it is a bit ridiculous the amount of time we are forced to wait for ICS. One thing is it is done on the Evo Design on Boost Mobile and another is that the head of development (or something... it was an interview in May) said that it would be out in the June time frame following the release on Boost. This would give the Boost version an advantage for a bit. I understand that they have to make software work on their network with their services and all but it does feel like it was purposefully delayed, perhaps to make their new ICS phones (Evo LTE and GSIII) more valuable to new customers.

I was in Bloomington Indiana on the 5th and I got excellent WiMax signal. It went from fair to excellent as we drove through town. It tested a solid 8-10mbps for about 5 speedtests I did in passing. The shame is I had held off on getting a WiMax phone when I lived there a year ago because I thought there was no 4G . Turns out the tower less than a mile from my previous apartment was equipped. Shame too because we had Comcast there and that works about 10% of the time. Edit: Also, greetings from Muncie fellow Indiana S4gru member.

No interruption in Muncie in the past fews weeks. I'll be heading to the north side of Indy if it interests anyone on Friday (it's my birthday ), I'll see how it's fairing there.

I know they want to be and that's the disgusting part. They want far too much control. If I have to use a locked phone I want some freedom. One thing I do respect Apple and its iPhone for is maintaining control on the phone... that and I get to watch ATT beg you to get a Lumia or Galaxy SIII, and hear them whine about iMessage. Thinking of that, I have no idea who provides my parent's landline phone now, Ameritech, SBC, or ATT. I was a youngster but I do remember getting long distance telephone service with Sprint meant you could hear a pin drop. The HD voice teasers had a pin on them and I got all excited and people looked at me like I was insane. With all the big phones launching on all the big networks, poor T-mo, carrier loyalty is plummeting and people will switch. Too much restriction could be very costly in the long run.

I would like to thank you for mentioning net neutrality. It is honestly one of my main reasons for choosing my ISPs. I don't think people take it nearly seriously enough.Since Sprint was a supporter of it, I threw my weight behind them. T-Mobile is the only phone ISP I think I could stand falling back to. Man, the US phone market is in tatters. Why is it that these companies don't realize they are not content creators or providers. They are connection providers. Wireless ISPs.