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No, it's not up yet, and it likely will never be "separate". However, Sprint already has separate coverage maps for different devices, so I would imagine that once it's included, it will be on its own map for 800-capable devices.

Well, that would require me to be married. To a woman.

I first read this as "changed my wife" and I had a "wait... what?" moment.

Well, I guess we'll see on Wednesday in the Playbook if that's what it'll be for indirect and third-party dealers. Because, as of today, we still can put whoever we want on whatever plan, no "manager approval" needed. That being said, we've switched a lot of people over. For one or two lines, you get more for you money, and you save a ton if you have more than 5 lines, or mix and match with basic phones. Saved one guy over $100 a month.

Well, I'm no expert, but Sprint's 4G LTE is 5x5 MHz FD-LTE. Which means, 5 MHz of Downlink (cell site to you), 5 MHz of Uplink (you to the cell site), for 10 MHz total. So, leaving off 5 MHz of your 10 MHz of G Block Spectrum means you're going to get a pretty unusable signal by the time it hits your device. The downlink (iirc it's up/down) is still going to be the same as before - weak. Also, I really don't recommend using LTE to replace a wired connection, unless you only use internet sparingly. A hotspot device is limited to 12 GB a month, and some members here have talked of easily going over 300 GB, so...

While I definitely have more to say on this topic, can this get moved to another thread forked off of this one? This really doesn't have anything to do with the Moto X. Never mind that this has already been done to death in the WiFi Offloading thread...

So, about that signal strength device comparison article...

I, um. Look. You're on the internet, dealing with the general public. If you're taking personal offence to something someone on the internet says, especially when not even directed at you, the problem is actually between you and yourself. Nobody's talking down being crazy about smartphones, and I don't think anyone here actually cares if you're a "punk" or a "professional". What's talked down is overuse (and some would say abuse) of shared wireless resources for purely entertainment-related purposes, which has caused the "spectrum crunch", as it is called. I did not get much of a chance to look at it for long, but I did not see any Sprint logos on the device at all; I actually had to ask the rep if it was the Sprint version I was looking at.

You give me too little credit; if you notice, I spelled it wrong in my post, as well, on purpose. I was springboarding off your comment about Samsung's misspellings, pointing out that such videos would never contain such information, as not even technicians are supposed to see the enginerring screens!

Oh, silly AJ, assuming that Sprint employees get any training on how enginerring screens work at all. Most don't even know that dialer codes exist, much less secret menus!

Is this site you're connected to 4G LTE accepted? Without that, 3G NV can still be hooked up to legacy backhaul. Even with that, they just might not be running enough EV-DO carriers. How bad was your Ec/Io (aka how much interference was there)?

On all of the advertisements, I've seen it like: creativ originativ innoavativ which would make it pronounced ā-tiv. However, the Samsung training videos pronounce it uh-tēv.

Samsung Galaxy S 4 MegaEpic 4G LTE Bad Touch-panel Skyrocketing Magical Rainbow Unicorn Edition, with Google™

I actually recommend against using a non-stock SMS app if you use Sprint's voicemail. If the app intercepts the voicemail texts before the Voicemail app gets them, you'll get a bunch of garbled text messages, and no voicemail notifications. I've seen it too many times. If you're using Google Voice though, go ahead!

Worse than that. http://www.movaluate.com/htc/evo-4g-lte-sprint "Excellent" right now is going for $150 Fair Market Value. Anyone selling it on Craigslist for over $200 is, well, being an average Craiglist poster. (I wonder if this all shouldn't be its own thread? Maybe not.)

Oh, whoops. Changed the numbers, but not what they represent. Either way, the math's right, no? And Unlimited isn't capped at 20 GB, even though that's a ridiculous amount of data to use on a phone.

Reading the article, isn't this what Apple already does for the CDMA iPhone? It asks what carrier it's on when it powers up, and then activation goes through Apple's servers. This would just extend that 100% to GSM devices, from the 90% it already was.

...what?

It looks like they do, on my device at least. Currently running a CM10.2 (Android 4.3) ROM on my Galaxy Note II. My 1X signal is -103, and my EV-DO signal is -104 (both right on the normal edge of usefulness, from my experience), but the "bars" show it wavering between two and three bars. And, it seems they're right; my Ec/Io for each is -3.0 dB and -2.5 dB respectively (just saw EV-DO jump up to -1.5 dB), which I understand means there's almost no interference at all between my device and the site, and I'm probably the only user on the entire sector. That being said, EV-DO actually works very well at a signal of ~-103 dBm, with an Ec/Io of about -3 dB. I just did a speedtest and got this: And yes, this is an NV 3G cell.

Yes, I thought this was well known...? Maybe not. That was one of the big reasons Sprint changed the discount structure for the new "Unlimited, My Way" plans. The discount only applies to the Data section of the bill - "to more closely align our discount and pricing structure with our competitors, to reduce customer confusion" (or something close to that is what was announced). So, new math. Sprint: 50 (1st line) + 40 (2nd line) + 30 (3rd line) + 20 (1 GB data) + 20 (1 GB data) - 8.8 (22% discount off of $40) = $151.2 Now, if you wanted unlimited data... Sprint: 50 (1st line) + 40 (2nd line) + 30 (3rd line) + 30 (1 GB data) + 30 (1 GB data) - 8.8 (22% discount off of $40) = $166.8. Slightly more money, but a much better deal. VZW: 40 (1st line) + 40 (2nd line) + 30 (3rd line) + 60 (2 GB data) - 13.2 (22% discount off of $60) = $156.8 And yes, not everyone will be eligible for a discount. However, Sprint has the "Credit Union Program", which only requires you to be a member of a credit union, which is a ridiculously easy way to get 10% off your bill and wave all activation and upgrade fees. Oh, also, if you port your number from another carrier and put on the Credit Union Discount, they'll give you a $100 service credit after you've been with Sprint for 61 days. So yeah.

Precisely. Which, in my opinion, is somewhat ridiculous of a policy. Devices with removable batteries do not have their batteries covered after 1 year, as they are "accessories". Phones without removable batteries, the battery is considered an essential component, and you can exchange for it. Because, you know, so many people consider their battery to be non-essential to running the phone.

No, Sprint is skipping dual band (1900 + 800) and going straight to Tri-Band (1900 + 800 + 2500). The first phone will be the LG G2. That being said, just about any phone out there today (aside from the iPhone 4 and 4S) will be able to use the 800 MHz for 1X (voice + texting, with slow data fallback).

If you don't mind rooting or loading custom software, Samsung's bootloaders are very unlocked. You'll lose your engineering screens, but you can run whatever you want.

I did for a while. It's just not the same.

You can't. And I'm probably the only person on the planet who actually misses Windows Mobile 2003 and WinMo 6. A simpler time, when styluses were required...