9erHater

Hmm interesting. The S4 does come in quad version according to Qualcomm's website. It would definitely interesting to benchmark the quad vs dual versions.

I think Qualcomm is having such a difficult time getting usable dual-core chips out of TSMC, it will be a while before TSMC has enough capacity to bake quad-core chips in large numbers.

Engadget have benchmarked the phone against the Note, the One X(AT&T and Global version), the and One S. The dual core S4 outperforms the quad Exynos in the majority of benchmarks, sometimes by double.

 

http://www.engadget....iii-benchmarks/

I've seen articles that the US version of the Galaxy SIII will come with a Snapdragon S4, so the CPU comparison will be a wash.

What's the point of these insanely high speeds with such low caps on all the data plans these companies have?

To gouge their customers and make tons of money on data overage fees. ;-)

Wouldn't that make for interference issues with either Wi-Fi or Clearwire LTE not operating properly?

I'm not a radio antenna engineer. I'm just telling you what I've read.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400875,00.asp

are phones like the new iphone 5 going to be able to run on the new clearwire TD-LTE sites as well as the new Sprint LTE and CDMA sites anddddd all of the others for roaming (international)... seems like that would be quite the chip but yet extremely necessary.

Well, since the iPhone 5 is still vaporware, it's difficult to know what its magical qualities will be. But likely no for roaming at least, since there isn't an international standard for LTE frequencies yet. The problem lies more in the antennas than the chip. The Qualcomm chip can do either TDD-LTE or FDD-LTE, but needs multple antennas for the different bands. I've seen some articles that say the wifi antenna could also be used to also receive Clearwire's 2.5GHz band.

yup, good to go on SERO-P+10

Good, SERO's been good to me. Glad to be able to stay on it.

irev210: Just to be Master of the Obvious, they did activate your Galaxy Nexus on the SERO-P + $10 plan, right?

Does that mean T-Mobile will repurpose their PCS holdings (which is significant), for HSPA+?

Yes, T-Mobile is going to do a network upgrade also. I don't think it's to the same lavel as Sprint, but they'll be using integrated radios on their towers.

With the spectrum they got from AT&T as part of the breakup and their own surplus PCS spectrum, they'll have about 10MHz of PCS spectrum for HSPA+. The main benefit is that they will be able to support AT&T unlocked devices with HSPA+ (like the iPhone). The T-Mobile native devices will continue to use HSPA+ on AWS. Once that refarm has been done, they'll be able to deploy 10x10 LTE in the freed AWS band.

http://www.fiercewir...rica/2012-03-01

While unlimited data isn't what keeps me on Sprint, it's a relief to not worry about overage charges. One thing I'd like to see would be prioritization of data bandwidth to users that have used the least. The benefits vs difficulty of this means it probably won't happen, but it would allow the network to be used fairly.

http://newsroom.sprint.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=2224

http://newsroom.sprint.com/news/lg-viper-4g-lte-fact-sheet.htm

Not a very exciting device, but it looks like Sprint's LTE devices will start in the affordable range (with 2 year contract). The plan mentioned is also in line with existing plans with $10/month smartphone fee, so apparently no extra LTE fee.