Sonic13

Interesting...

 

My iPhone 5 hasn't been connecting to LTE at all the entire day. Tried to troubleshoot it by myself and yet to no avail.

 

I take a peep at the PRL and it has changed to 60657 from 51098. Oh lord...

I hope mine doesn't change, I have 51098 on my 5S. I'm not within range of any LTE, but when I am I'd like to experience it.

I think it would actually provide better competition to the top carriers, now that Sprint would actually be a serious competitor.

I don't, I fear a merger would just create another AT&T/Verizon monster, and there'd be no real competition.

I like how T-Mobile and Sprint kind of keep each other in check, and while they're not as strong as the "big 2", they're both serious competition, as evidenced by the way little ol' T-Mobile has been shaking up the industry for the past year or so.

No thanks, I don't like the idea of less competition.

Finally!!

Closer to home I have a fringe LTE signal with legacy 3G speeds, but it's a start. I just hope I don't have to wait years for improvements.

Actually, if it's not supported, it's more than likely an Apple restriction. Google supports it just fine on Android, and if they could they would on iOS. Apple likely didn't let them add it.

 

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But if other apps support it, I doubt it's an Apple restriction.

I'm actually surprised this restriction is exclusive to the iPhone, but if it was Google's decision I wouldn't be shocked if the restriction comes to Android as well.

It's obviously not Google if Google has been able to port nearly all of its system apps flawlessly to iPhone's and Apple hasn't done the same for Android devices.

It is Google, it's their app. When you try to change the quality settings it says "manual quality selection over cellular networks is not supported", that isn't Apple's doing.

Not that HD streaming matters to me, I can't even watch anything on 3G using the app, but the restriction exists. In my experience, the mobile site works way better (on both cellular and wifi), for whatever reason.

Let's just say those that bought the iPhone are going to be missing a lot of LTE goodness!

And it sucks, but iOS trumps LTE 2500 for me. After having a severely bogged down 1x/EVDO connection for 2 years, LTE 800/1900 should feel like another world, unless our market ends up like Chicago.

It'd be nice if a software upgrade enabled LTE 2500 on the 5S, but that isn't gonna happen.

On the desktop they play fine until I go to my ipad mini on itunes and when I try to play a song on my ipad mini on itunes it'll show a exclamation point next to it and it won't play.

 

Also the storage seems awful wrong. It says I have 26/32 Gb available when I have over 2,000 songs on it.

 

I really would hate to do a restore since It'll be a pain double checking if I have every song on my ipad mini on my itunes.

It sounds like the music is no longer on your iPad mini somehow. The opposite used to happen to me, songs in my iTunes library would have an exclamation mark next to them and wouldn't play, but the music would play on my iPhone via iTunes.

I don't think restoring your iPad is necessary, I think removing the music from your iPad and then re-syncing the music would solve the problem, but I'm no expert.

Love the name.

I know it's likely a coincidence, but my 3G has improved going into this "launch". DL speeds are generally in the 0.6 to 1.2 Mbps range with pings around 100. Not the greatest, but at least it's functional now.

I hope this speed boost means LTE has arrived in time for my upgrade.

So NYC is fully launched now.

As long as LTE is fully functional in my area when I upgrade, I'll be satisfied, finally.

I'm getting some nice pings here in Jamaica, Queens:

Kind of surprised at the lack of LTE at Green Acres, on sensorly it's purple, but the phones in the Sprint store only had 3G.

Would Wifi calling make the Airave obsolete? I'm not exactly sure how wifi calling works, but it just seems like it'd be less of a hassle.

The Parallax effect doesn't bother me at all, but I have it turned off, along with other battery intensive features, like "background app refresh".

iOS 7 itself is more battery intensive than iOS 6, and when coupled with a 2 year old device and poor network conditions my 4S's battery just gets annihilated within 3-4 hours.

It looks way better though, our 1st gen iPad on iOS 5 just looks so clunky now. If only the battery life remained the same.

I'd like to see these results on Edge/GPRS..

 

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I'd like to see those results on EVDO, lol.

LTE 2600 is not even available in my area and won't be for sometime. Right now I'm concerned about LTE 800 but once Sprint SoftBank deploys LTE on 2600 then I hope the iPhone 6 will support band 41.

 

 

No need to upset when majority of us don't have LTE 2600 in our area. And we all know the deployment for that wont start until next year.

Right. A lot of us don't even have LTE 1900 in our areas yet, so while Tri-Band-capability would've been nice, what good is it if you're still on the legacy network (or in an LTE 1900-only area). Don't get me wrong, I'm still slightly disappointed, it should've been Tri-Band, but who's to say when LTE 2600 will even be available.

Just like the 4S, I was a little disappointed when it arrived without LTE, but LTE has yet to exist here, so I didn't miss anything.

I'm confused. Is LTE 800 supported?

800/2600 please!!

I still bounce back and between EVDO and 1x here in South Jamaica, Queens, even with a decent connection. The data speeds are virtually the same, although pings on 1x are slightly better.

 

 

I just hope LTE is up and running here by the time the next iPhone comes out in Sept/Oct, I'm not even anticipating any 3G improvements at this point, that ship has sailed.

Well let's see how long this lasts....

I still bounce back and between EVDO and 1x here in South Jamaica, Queens, even with a decent connection. The data speeds are virtually the same, although pings on 1x are slightly better.

I just hope LTE is up and running here by the time the next iPhone comes out in Sept/Oct, I'm not even anticipating any 3G improvements at this point, that ship has sailed.

I wonder if there'd be more LTE coverage in Queens if it was served by Optimum. If I remember correctly, Queens and Brooklyn began receiving LTE around the same time, but Brooklyn, which is served by Optimum, has outpaced Queens quite a bit.

Idk, it's just an observation.

Sorry, iPhone 4S doesn't have the 800 SMR band. What you saw was roaming on the 850 Cellular band (in other words, Verizon).

Roaming was my first thought but my phone still read "Sprint" at the top as opposed to "Extended", and I was confused as to why it read "cellular" instead of "SMR". Thanks for clearing that up. I didn't know Verizon occupied that band.

I believe I just witnessed 1x 800 in Jamaica, I dialed *3001#12345#* while in an elevator and the "Rx0 Band Class" read 800 MHz cellular band.

Upon exiting the elevator, it immediately returned back to "1.8 to 2.0 MHz PCS Band".

I see NV panels at the top of the tower on Middle Country Road on the border of Selden/Coram.

No NV-like 3G speeds though.