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Does anyone have any experience with external keyboards? Either through a case, or through bluetooth? It seems to me that without it being integrated in to the phone or a case, it would be pretty unwieldy and more or less defeat the purpose. I'm used to typing on glass (Google Keyboard and Swiftkey are both great), but man, there are a lot of times I want a real keyboard and some arrow keys.

I know this is completely not what you're looking for, but the iPad Mini has so far impressed me with its ability to find and hold on to LTE. It seems stronger than any other non-hotspot device I've played with, including the iPad Maximus.

You... do realize the post you quoted is from 10 months ago, right?

I think I speak for all of (some of) us when I say, awww! Aaactually, here in Grand Rapids, there's only a (very) small handful of 800 MHz 1X towers turned on. I've seen some devices that, when stuck on 800 with low signal (and for some reason not jumping back to the superior 1900 signal (yes it happens)), have become "ear warmers" with bad battery life. I know it will get supremely better once 800 is everywhere, but it's not.

Well, the industry standard is supposed to be, for computer memory, 1 KB = 1024 B (aka 1 KiB). For storage and data transmission (networks, etc), 1 KB = 1000 B. 37.5 Mbps should be 37,500,000,000 bits per second (maintaining the 3 sig figs). Should be. I wish we could all just agree and kick the asses of people who use the units wrong.

That makes sense. Improvements to 3G EV-DO are separate. While I'm not certain, it seems plausible that on a handful of sites you might have 1X 800 broadcasting, but still have legacy EV-DO. While Network Vision sites are supposedly able to broadcast ~20% further, even advanced backhaul won't help you if your EV-DO carriers are all overloaded. Only more carriers, more cell sites, or offloading to 4G or WiFi can help the network then.

Sprint doesn't care if you root your device, only if rooting it negatively affects the network in some way. So, go ahead, root away. Additionally retail stores that are not Corporate Sprint Owned (anything that says like "Sprint Store by Galactic Communications") has no more access than you do to images to flash devices. They have to use Google and shady websites, all the same as you.

Yeah, if the 5C comes out, they'll either have 4 devices, or drop the 4 and 4S and just have 3 like they have in the past. They might even keep the 4 and 4S around for a few months until inventory dries up, and then tell everyone to buy the 5C. Who knows! It's all speculation until that very day.

I've actually had the opposite problem; Signalcheck Pro will show "No Service", the signal bars will show "No Service"... and EV-DO will continue to work normally and load websites no problem. I'm pretty sure I've even received text messages while in this state. Although, because of this, I've started wondering if something isn't wrong with my device. Oh well.

Here's how it works, at least on the Sprint end of things. Sprint will not activate any ESN/MEID that is not in their database of phones. However, every single iPhone MEID is listed as available for activation, as there is, like you found out, only one CDMA model of each iPhone. You can put any CDMA iPhone on your Sprint account. If the device is programmed for another carrier, however, it won't activate properly. I found this out recently, as Asurion received a batch of iPhone 5's that were programmed for Cricket, but shipped out to Sprint customers. They will attach to the account, but will not activate. Similarly, I had a situation where a woman brought in an iPhone 4S to be activated, and we only found out after it was already on her account that it was programmed for VZW, and it couldn't be used.

Oh man. This means this one will launch at $200, the iPhone 4 will go EOL, the 5 will become $100, and the 4S will become free at POS with an upgrade or new line activation. Siri for everyone! (Personally, due to things like LTE and BC10 CDMA, I'm hoping they announce a "low-cost" iPhone for the "free" category and just drop the 4 and 4S entirely. But, that's a Sprint-centric viewpoint)

Avocados are still fruit. As an aside, one big reason that CDMA NV sites are brought up in clusters is that (possibly for reasons related to what you said), in many markets, NV 3G sites do not hand off properly to legacy sites. Chicago was one, and West Michigan is another.

That is... very strange. I would expect the opposite, what with fewer devices actively using a site, cell breathing going down should improve the coverage. I've definitely noticed that it's easier to get and hold on to 4G the later in to the night I get, pretty consistently. But if it only lasts for 30 minutes or so, yeah, that would tell me there's some equipment that's on a timer to reset.

Come to think of it, isn't this old news? I thought we all knew that Network Vision was 3-6 months behind schedule. Hasn't it been that way for a while? And, of course it's because of vendor delays; what "in-house" could have been done faster? All the required ground work is by contractors and subcontractors, and that all requires equipment to be produced and in place. Make a vendor an example for the rest. Show them what happens when you deploy too slow. Sprint just needs to hire more Commissars.

What an interesting post. That is certainly information I did not know. While it certainly shows a benefit of LTE over EV-DO, this is sadly not true in all cases. Sprint has many cell seams are are really cell edges. Several former affiliate markets *cough West Michigan cough* have some pretty bad tower spacing, and unless you're in a place there T-Mobile would also have coverage (heh), you'll be lucky for your device to see more than one site. Which brings me to the next point - this is also only true in a fully deployed market. If you're in a "scattershot" 30% deployed market, well, it's rare to have a situation at all where multiple LTE sites overlap. Naturally, this will improve with time, but does not help now, today. Additionally, this comparison doesn't say much about 1X vs LTE, which is a primary concern for moving to VoLTE, and 1X is quite usable very far down into fringe signals, when talking about voice usability. I've noticed I can use voice often a bit past -105 dBm RSSI, while LTE rarely works at all past -110 dBm RSRP. Sure, apples and oranges there, but still both fruit.

I still don't understand. Do you just use internet on your phone? Or are you paying for tethering? Either way, offloading on to WiFi tends to be better (both for you and the network) than using it, especially if it's available.

Ermm... what part of that post involved "big words", of even past High School level? "exude"? "competitive advantage"? maybe? Unless your post was directed at some else, it honestly seems kinda silly, doesn't it? Talking trash instead of breaking down his argument, in an argument about the efficacy (there's one for you ) of not talking trash.

If you've got WiFi at home, what do you need 3G for?

Many were colocated with Sprint, so upgrading those would have been nothing but wasted resources. Many others are "redundant coverage", which is kind of a tossup, and usually leaned towards no. Others lie completely outside the Sprint coverage area, and again, it's a "cost:benefit" tossup. Frankly, I'm thankful that any Nextel sites are being upgraded at all. They could have just said "meh".

That's the thing, once the notification pops up, when "onscreen", you can grab it and flick up to unlock the phone and launch that app as if you had clicked the notification as normal. It's really quite ingenious. And yes, I was playing with the Sprint version. Unsure if it was any different from other versions. Oh, don't mind AJ. He can be a bit of a curmudgeon, but that's only because he feels that, for example, the "spectrum crunch" is caused by things like streaming media solely for vapid entertainment purposes... and not for any legitimate-seeming reason. He'd rather only those that need smartphones have them, and... some days, I'm kinda with him on that.

if you were talking about pre-softbank sprint or, heaven forbid, pre-Hesse, I'd agree. T-Mobile already had advanced backhaul to all of their sites of import, and thus are doing much less work. Sprint is replacing the literal entire network. This isn't a case of them being lazy hackjobs. The 800 and 2500 rollouts will go much faster once the base NV platform is in place. For the birds, reread that article. It was a legitimate concern. Sent from my SPH-L900 using Tapatalk 4

Wait, are you really implying that the Sprint execs are ignorant of - or worse, willfully ignorant of - the current churn rates and customer issues?

You know it's an editorial when it's filled with bold, italic, and sometimes bold italic underlined words. Things no journalist would use. Interesting story, though. Wonder what wasn't good enough with Samsung's "SAFE" (Samsung Approved For Enterprise) program?

Got to play with a Moto X today. Really quite a nice device. Impressive build quality. Active Display seems extremely nice. While there are already apps out there to duplicate it more or less (leaning towards less), it is pretty brilliant. The always-on Google Now feature is something I actually want. It's fast, works well (just like regular Google Now), and it shaves off a few steps from those Google searches. I understand it's not possible on other devices due to the "listening" being done by one of the low-power cores. Beyond that, I agree with what others have said. No Tri-Band, $200 price tag, I'd rather not.

I update my apps all the time, but that goes over WiFi. And many restaurants and bars now have WiFi as well. And I've stopped streaming Pandora and moved to listening to eBooks while driving. So, yeah. I rarely use data. This would have been a $38 bill on Ting, heh.