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My sister (who is on Sprint, has a GS3) just took a 2-week vacation to Chicago. Her almost exact words were "Oh my God, it was amazing. I had full bars of 4G everywhere I went. Everywhere. It's the best my phone has ever worked."

You know, you'd look good in a suit. I know my friend does.

I can't be the only one who's reminded of this...

I've always liked threads like this. I'm not gonna post another picture of me because my profile pic is currently me. Actually, I will post the full version: Me eating some kind of sweet bean ice cream, in Arashiyama, Japan.

Oh c'mon, you're just being ridiculous! I'm gonna go ahead and wax nostalgic about Phantasy Star now, and be sad that they let such a legendary series atrophy so badly. Ah well, c'est la vie.

I'm sorry, did you just say that Soul Calibur (exceptionally popular fighting game series) and Phantasy Star Online (the freaking mother of all modern MMOs; a major paradigm shift for both the MMO format and for console games) aren't significant and important!? C'mon man! Don't do this to me!

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It means the switch is borked. Call Sprint and let them know. *2. *nod*

I usually wear a 34 or 36 waist, depending. Now, I can do that in slacks or regular jeans (takes a little bit but it works); definitely can't with skinny jeans.

Eh, I realized the other day I could fit a 7-8" tablet in my pocket (it was an iPad Mini, to be exact). The Mega obviously doesn't go far enough!

As long as humans are involved, anything is hackable.

Le shrug. It's one of many, many reasons. The Dreamcast was a great system with great games (it continued the trend of "Arcade at Home" that made the SNES so popular), but it wasn't fated to be. I still have mine, several controllers, a bunch of games, and a larger bunch of burned games (another big reason it failed).

Well, I actually pointed it out specifically, as it was a mid-generational device. Better than the PSX and N64 generation, but lesser than the PS2, Gamecube, XBox generatoin.

So, where's the Sega Dreamcast in all that, huh!? HUH!?

I hope so as well, but I'm kinda not counting on it. After all, the MSRP for the Sprint Galaxy Nexus was $549.99, a sizable $200 more than the Google Play one.

Here's a dirty little secret: every CDMA iPhone, whether it be for Sprint, Verizon, Cricket, or any other carrier I'm forgetting, is already in the system. Sprint will activate any of them, it's just that Apple's activation servers won't, due to them locking each device to a specific carrier.

You'll note well that the Premier Gold one-year upgrades went away just about the time Sprint got the iPhone, also about the same time Early Termination Fees jumped from $200 to $350. If they did, it would probably be in a way similar to how it used to be. Full "upgrade" pricing after 20 months (it also used to be 22, remember?), half that or worse after 12. So, since the current ETF is $350, they should give you around $175 off after one year. The current "Upgrade Now" program does offer 12-month upgrade pricing. When you're at 12 to 14 months, your upgrade will cost you $200, on top of the price of the phone. In other words, your Samsung Galaxy S IV would cost you $400, giving you a total rebate of $150. That's double the old $75 off.

I know, and I understand that. I look at it differently: if your upgrade cycle is 20 months, an extra $100 is equal to $5 a month, while $200 is $10 a month. Most people won't miss $10 (and definitely not $5) a month, and you're going to get a lot more technology out of it. It's just something I've noticed, working at two different stores (with two very different clientele). The major sellers are either flagships, or last year's flagships. Phones designed for the midrange (read: same price as "last year's flagship") tend to not get a second glance unless they're priced "Free". That being said, I might still end up pushing people towards this, depending on our TriBand lineup in the coming months.

Ew, because we needed more badly-selling midrange phones. The Galaxy Victory was such a great success, after all.

Seems you got stuck in a time warp yourself, posting that three times

Erm... the issue has absolutely nothing to do with what Sprint is doing on the backend, and what you're talking about doesn't even make sense with what we know and what has been observed. Devices with SVDO and SVLTE work just fine, you know. It just requires two separate transmission paths. In the phone. Voice routing (as it goes over CMDA 1X), AFAIK, should have nothing to do with LTE routing.

Sounds like you're down for nerdiness. I'll show you mine if you show me yours. Anyways, The problem is, warp travel is inherently unsafe, and communication through it just as bad. As points within the warp often have little relation to their realspace points, messages between even local star systems can take weeks, while across an entire segmentum could take only a day or so - if you're lucky, of course. Additionally, signal fading is a serious concern, as without enough signal strength, a message will arrive distorted, or not at all. And when you're dealing with things that take at least an hour minimum (say, from a ship in orbit to a planet), you don't really have the luxury of error correction. I'd say, as long as you've got the ability to utilize Vox communications (standard radio waves), go for it.

Whoops, misspoke. Meant speed floor. I'm glad you agree that the ITU requirements are a little ridiculous, and as "they can define it however the like", that you agree that it's completely arbitrary. My point is, when it comes down to it - "faux G" or no... It's one thing entirely to say "your technology must have a minimum peak downlink spectral efficiency of 15 bits/s/Hz" (to quote Wikipedia), and another thing altogether to say, as I've heard so many tech afficionados and media sites say, "ITS NOT REAL FOUR GEE UNTIL I GET A HUNDRED DOWN!!!1111". The first is a real technological advancement, the second is a dick waving contest, and has nothing to do with generational advancement.

It's completely artbitrary, because it depends on the amount of spectrum you're using and the spectral efficiency of your technology. The first depends entirely on licensing schemes, and has nothing to do with technology. The second involves new engineering, and is indicative of a new generation. Are you seeing the problem? By assigning an arbitrary speed cap, an arbitrary assumption of (iirc) 67 MHz (for 1 Gbps fixed) worth of spectrum being the minimum to run a network was put in place. Having more spectrum to use doesn't make your technology new, it just means... you have more spectrum. Spectral efficiency? Yes, that matters, a lot. It also is something end users don't know a thing about and don't care about. Engineering standards should not be measured by how an end user perceives it. That's dumb and silly and we should stop. Providing a good user experience is a worthwhile goal, but that's not what my first post was about.

It's not really the same situation. Preferred retailers don't have a choice of what promotions they're participating in; if there's a Galaxy S4 BOGO, you're going to offer it and the signage is going to be in your store, period. Similarly, they don't have an option to participate in promotions like the Upgrade Now offer. It would be like going to a franchise McDonald's store, asking for the McRib, and getting told that that's only at Corporate McDonald's stores, we aren't allowed to offer it, you're going to have to drive another 10 miles if you want it. Sorry.