exadyne
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They had a Note but not Note Edge at my BB. I went ahead and pulled the trigger and put in a pre-order.
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I believe it based purely on the FCC reports that show the hardware's radiated energy. The characteristics of look like the GS5 so it seems likely to perform about the same.
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I understand that. I'm just having a hard time picturing Durand as a location that is under performing. I don't have a band 41 device, nor access to the S4GRU maps, so going by Sprint's maps, it looks like MI has no Band 41 up yet. It seems surprising that Durand could be near the front.
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Too late at this point in the year, but it might run again next year: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/mobile-phones-promotions/gift-card-reserve-offer-details/pcmcat293000050015.c?id=pcmcat293000050015
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Durand? Seems like an odd spot to put Band 41 equipment. I'm guessing this was planned before Marcelo's new marching orders to prioritize high traffic locations? Or are highways part of the high priority for Band 41?
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I intend to. In the past I've done Best Buy's register your phone and get a $50 gift card when you upgrade. When I did that, they applied the $50 right there towards the phone's purchase price.
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The only brick and mortar store I could imagine offering a lower price would be Sam's Club, and that only by a matter of dollars, not matching Verizon / AT&T's $299.99. Unfortunately, Sprint seems to know they can pluck an extra $50 out of Galaxy Note users on their network. Don't know why they do this to Galaxy Note in particular, and not other popular phones.
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It has to be brick and mortar retailer though, doesn't it? I know BB price matches some online stores, but contract mobile devices are an exception to that according to bestbuy.com.
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For $300 above the Note's premium price, it best come with CAT 20 and connect to towers in the next state.
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Let's just go for Cat 8 and have a phone that is all antennas.
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And this is of course assuming the tower is free to provide two carriers to you at the given moment. Also, did you mean cat 4 instead of cat 6?
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Can you give the cliff notes of it while it still has relevancy?
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Best Buy has their preorder page up for the Galaxy Note 4, but it is only showing AT&T right now. Their page says "Get a $200 Best Buy gift card at time of purchase with trade in of any working smartphone." which I assume overrides the $200 you can get from Samsung, but heck, no mail hassle. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/promo/samsung-galaxy-note-4-128435
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I'd imagine that since the only real feature of the S4T was RF, they were going to push it for all it was worth. You would think they'd have a lot of room to work for RF equipment given the size of the Note, but like I said before, I think they tend to recycle the RF stack out of Galaxy S devices.
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Sprint Datasheet for it says it packs the MDM9625, which is cat 4. While cat 4 can do carrier aggregation, it can't do more than 20mhz aggregation, which would be necessary for Band 41, the only band Sprint is doing CA in right now. NM, noticed this was posted before the datasheet. For some reason the forum sent me to a different page than the newest in the thread.
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Still a lot of factors in that. What does saturated mean? Are all users in just sector of the tower. Saying band 25, are you refering to just LTE, not the rest of PCS used by Sprint for CDMA? How much spectrum is the hypothetical Band 41 licensed for? For the general case, yes, Band 41 is going to support more users. For Sprint LTE in Band 25, you're looking at a 5x5mhz carrier, where as Band 41 sites are generally all 20mhz carriers, so each Band 41 carrier has twice the bandwidth, and Band 41 sites might have multiple carriers.
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Anyone else familiar with Best Buy trade in program? I have an extended battery on phone (I'm looking for the original and original battery door), and I wonder how much, if any, it would count against trade in.
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Ah, I thought the N450 was yours. If you owned it outright, I couldn't see why you'd bother spending on a new one at this point, but since it is TWC's modem, yeah you're probably better off getting one of the surfboards list by others.
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The way the ad is worded, Samsung won't honor it unless you can get at least $10 in trade in credit. Sprint won't let me check without a serial number, but Best Buy offers $8 at most for it.
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Can you turn the router part off and use the N450 as just a modem to a new router? The N450 already is DOCSIS 3.0, not much point on buying anything now since no one is selling DOCSIS 3.1 modems.
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Wow, that's awesome. I was going to hang on to my S2 / 4g Touch, but if I can really get Samsung to give me $200, I'll take it. Reading it, it looks like a loophole might be if Best Buy won't accept my phone at all as a trade in.
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As far as the original poster or anyone else who can't wired service to their house, I suggest you go to your township hall or city hall. Ask to see the franchise agreement signed with providers and see what it says about guaranteeing coverage. Charter cable covers my area and when I moved in, they told me they wouldn't offer me cable even though my neighbor had it. I got the franchise agreement that said they have to provide coverage to every lineal mile that has at least 5 residences, which was true for me. I then told them I'd sue if they didn't install, and I wouldn't sue for the to install at my house, I'd sue for the township to be free of their contract.
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WiMax isn't horrible, LTE had plenty of initial problems too, it is just a matter of WiMax didn't receive the development LTE did. Take a look at the characteristics of WiMax2 - it isn't that far off from LTE-A. As I see it, most of the reason the industry wanted LTE was politics - LTE was developed by 3GPP group, and so is a cellular trade group. WiMax came from IEEE. Most of the things people complain about WiMax are actually problems with Sprint's WiMax network. Most of the real problems with WiMax that made it lose to IEEE are things users never even really experienced or would realize.
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If it ends up being only CAT 4, people should sue for false advertising. The add says Cat 4 or Cat 6, not only Cat 4 or only Cat 6. Maybe then they'd bother making their phone pages accurate for the specific carrier.
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Yeah, I was hoping one of them would chime in as well. I tried looking up the Galaxy S5 LTE-A edition in the FCC docs to see if I could find what carrier aggregation would look like, but I didn't see anything in its docs about it. In fact, the Galaxy S5 LTE-A edition seems to only support channels up to 10mhz in the US according to the FCC doc.
