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Well, not on the weekends... but we're not a small store. We're on a first-name basis with the FedEx and UPS drivers.

We get devices in daily; I'll check tomorrow.

Woah, awesome! Our store doesn't have any yet; the GS4s that came in most recently lack the T.

Yes, the price tends to be higher on Unlimited My Way. What percentage of discount do you have? Everything Data has 300 MB of roaming data. Unlimited My Way has 100 MB. A non-issue to most people. Streaming video "may" be limited to 1 Mbps; no other throttling is involved. I have yet to see any evidence of even this being implemented. As long as you stay on your Everything Data 1500 plan, you can keep it. You can keep adding lines up to the 5 line limit. To go past 5, you'll need to switch. A couple other things... The Unlimited My Way plans have the "Unlimited for Life Guarantee", while the older Everything plans do not. Not sure if that matters to you, or will matter. If you go with Sprint's One Up phone financing/annual upgrade program, while you are paying a monthly fee for the phone financing, you do get $15 off that line, while on My Way. If you go for One Up on an Everything plan, you don't get a discount, and just add the price of the phone directly on. If you start up a new account or switch plans, you go to the My Way plan.

To bump this older thread, while trying out the new Direct Connect Now app (which is now compatible with phones like the Note 3 and the G2), I came across this page in the setup screen. Very interesting, as I still haven't heard anything about it internally. Sent from my SM-N900P using Tapatalk

Can't think of much cheaper than Ting... 1 device at 100 texts a month will run you $9 + surcharges/tax. Ting offers voice/SMS roaming, just not data.

Yes, while that is a cynical, jaded viewpoint, it is often the truth. If a salesperson is commissioned, they will do everything they can do improve that amount of commission. Reporting site outages for customers doesn't directly. Even though making customers happier greatly helps them in the long run, by improving overall customer satisfaction, most don't think like that. In the indirect channel, it's a bit different, as stores can make a profit off of Service and Repair. As such, knowing that they can get paid a small amount for pinpointing people, you'd better believe they'll do it.

Sure, you can turn off your CDMA radio by switching the device to LTE only mode. You will then be unable to send or receive calls and texts

The Nexus 5 is $350 without a contract, you know. Sell your GS3 on eBay: http://www.movaluate.com/samsung/galaxy-s-iii-sprint-blue And it'll be more like $200.

You know, for all the hype the carriers, the manufacturers, and even some tech sites give for certain manufacturers over others for software/skin reasons ("Touchwiz is the best!"), I sure do hear a spectacular amount of good things about the Nexus 5. Back on topic, even if you cannot take advantage of tri-band/spark at the moment, you almost certainly will within the next 20 months, before your next upgrade.

That, an in retail, the vast majority of reps (including techs) would completely avoid making CTMS tickets. In the Preferred channel, there was no dedicated tool, so reps had to call in and spend anywhere from 10-120 minutes on the phone. With Pinpoint, you have to "click" and you're done. It's honestly really nice.

As someone who works with commissioned sales people, I completely agree. Thankfully, our store (and our local company) takes a dim view of lying or shady business practices. In the past, people have been let go for it. And I in particular talk to them all the time about things that they say that aren't true at all...

What do you mean, "you guys"? I think I'm the only one who's been paying attention...

Nope You can always use something like Google Voice when in WiFi via, for example, GrooveIP. Wait, when did you buy a Nexus 5? Was the HTC One not tri-band enough for you?

So, any idea if Google Voice co-opts that and forces things to fall back to a different codec? Yes, such a worry, with Sprint's Unlimited minutes or unlimited mobile-to-mobile. Or in my case, using an average of 62 a month out of my 3000.

True, I can't quite fit my Nexus 7 in my pocket, and I honestly found a 10-inch tablet to be unwieldy. I can fit the Nexus 7 in my work slacks, but that's just silly to take around with me anyways. And frankly, with the Gear, I rarely pull out my phone anymore anyways...

I just tried this on our demo phone and it worked, same as my Note III: Make call Hit "add call" Dial "##33284#" Lock code screen comes up. Enter 777468. Enginerring screen when in a phone call, hoooooooo!

W-wuh, really? Surfing while talking is that important? SvWiFi still works, and about the only time I'm out of WiFi is when I'm driving... VoLTE is several years out on Sprint. Maybe a decade. If you ask me, if I have the choice of no 4G and "talk while surfing" vs 4G (such as ESMR 800 MHz), or overburdened 3G/LTE and "talk while surfing" vs fast, usable LTE (EBS/BRS)... I'll take the improved service, every time.

As an aside, SVDO and SVLTE are soon to be things of the past. The single radio design of the current Spark devices is going to be the way most all devices will be produced, for quite some time, if Rob and AJ's premonitions are correct. It has been predicted that SVDO and SVLTE may never exist in future devices at all, until VoLTE appears.

Pshaw, my Note III fits in my skinny jeans just fine.

Spark (aka 2500 and 800) LTE is being rolled out now across the country. What market are you in? You might be bathed in usable spectrum right now and not know it.

Can't you just replace the default "clock or personal message" lock screen widget with anything else? You could download, for example, Dashclock: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nurik.roman.dashclock&hl=en or Chronus: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dvtonder.chronus&hl=en

Indeed! I have noticed around here, and in many technical forums, people seem to think that co-oping with other companies and hiring new people for new projects means that in-progress projects are being abandoned or slowed down - that if those resources were instead allocated to other projects, they'd be done faster! After all, if it takes one man a day to dig a hole, it'll take 24 men an hour to dig that hole, and 86,400 men only a second! (or, said even better, it'll take 9 women 1 month to have a baby)

Well, my co-worker's Optimus G either absolutely can do it, or the Enginerring Screen was lying to me. I don't have an OG in front of me right now, but most engineering screens are gotten to by opening the Phone Dialer, and inputting "##33284#" (that's ##DEBUG#). If it asks for a lock code, it's 777468 (SPRINT), but I think only Samsung devices require that. As an aside, I just remembered that my "landline" call wasn't to a physical landline at all; it was to a VoIP phone. I'm no expert, but depending on the way the call is switched, couldn't it still take some advantage of the enhanced quality?