NateC

According to PocketNow.com this phone is none other than the Sprint Samsung Galaxy S3 (aka Samsung Epic Touch II, lol). Also as you mentioned it has the Qualcomm's Dual-Core Snapdragon S4 MSM8960, but any new LTE could have that. PocketNow and Phandroid have pulled the following user-agent profile from their site showing a device running on Sprints' own LTE network, or LTE capable:Samsung SPH-L710 running a Qualcomm Dual-Core Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 with a screen resolution of 1280x720, 16GB of on-board memory upgradable to 64GB (guessing via microSD card slot) and running Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich. Also the Galaxy S3 from Sprint will perhaps come in three capacities, 16GB. 32GB and 64GB? The specs are similar to the Galaxy S3 Global Version GT-I9300 with just a different processor and LTE support. Also a similar find was made from what seems to be the Verizon branding of the Galaxy S3 with the same specs but with a different model number of SCH-I535 (Lines up with other model numbers for Verizon Samsung phones).I personally still went ahead and ordered my HTC EVO 4G LTE as I prefer HTC phones and now the new EVO and Galaxy S3 will be near identical there is no choice to be made. Although I'll still love to see a head-to-head when the time comes. :)More Links:http://phandroid.s3....rof-550x477.jpghttp://phandroid.com...6gb-of-storage/http://pocketnow.com...rizon-confirmed5th

I wouldn't assume that only one other MSM8960 device for Sprint is being tested. There could be several others.

It could be the GS3. It could be the new Photon LTE. Some even think it could be a Windows Phone Apollo device. This screen shot is a freebie. I almost edited out that device. But just wanted to throw it out there in good faith to our loyal fans.Robert

Thanks for including it -- the mystery makes things more exciting

Hmmm... I wonder what that second MSM8960 (Snapdragon S4) device is? Maybe the Galaxy S3 since the U.S. LTE version was rumored to use this same CPU? I hope they won't wait until September to launch that as suggested in the schedule.

goodandevo.net is also reporting the May 18th launch date. They have some photos of the internal marketing material which gives them some credibility. Of course, although the story was reported on 4/27, we don't know how old the information was that they based it on. The mystery continues...

Source: http://www.goodandev...-confirmed.html

ERP == Effective radiated power (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_radiated_power)

You could think of it as the RF transmit power of the phone, taking into account output power and any losses from the phone itself (on the PCB, antenna/filter design, going through the phone case).

For reference with respect to ERP, here is how the 4G LTE compares to the original HTC Evo 4G:

OG Evo 4G:

Channel 1013 (824.70 MHz): ERP=20.1 dBm, CDMA
Channel 384 (836.52 MHz): ERP=20.3 dBm, CDMA
Channel 777 (848.31 MHz): ERP=19.0 dBm, CDMA

Evo 4G LTE:

Channel 1013 (824.70 MHz): ERP=18.78 dBm H, 12.65 dBm V, CDMA
Channel 384 (836.52 MHz): ERP=20.43 dBm H, 14.16 dBm V, CDMA
Channel 777 (848.31 MHz): ERP=19.55 dBm H, 12.96 dBm V, CDMA

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Source: https://apps.fcc.gov...html?id=1664039 and https://apps.fcc.gov...html?id=1278132

It's plausible. My guess is that we'll eventually have something resembling a Software Defined Radio in high end smart phones. With the number of required bands increasing so much, it's becoming impractical to support everything the traditional ways.

See http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/568646/software_defined_radio_in_mobile_phones.pdf