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Rumors are that it will come with a stylus with stylus integration. Curious to see what HTC has come up with. I really want to see some major competition to the Galaxy Note series. http://techs-geeks.blogspot.com/2013/07/htc-t6-phablet-aims-at-samsung-galaxy.html

Its up to you. Either roll the dice and wait for the Note 3 in October OR settle and be safe now with the GS4. For me I am rolling the dice for the Note 3.

You don't think that HTC will come out with a HTC phablet to compete with the HTC One? I think they will because they need to come up with 2 flagship phones like Samsung does to compete. Heck LG threw in the towel last year and produced the LG Optimus G Pro to compete. Unfortunately its only available on ATT so it hasn't gotten as much feedback as it should. I think a HTC phablet would be a smart move given that there is a decent amount of the market who seeks large screens like the Note.

I hope not. I am still waiting for the Galaxy Note 3 before reupping my SERO Premium plan.

Why would driving customers away be a goal? That doesn't make any sense at all. If anything, New Sprint should not be doing anything drastic yet with plans and just focus on Network Vision and Clearwire LTE integration. New Sprint should not introduce any sort of new plans until 2014 at the earliest. Trying to attract customers and improve network user experience should be the top priorities of New Sprint. NOT creating new phone plans. New Sprint is now giving a bad perception of a hostile takeover who comes in after a merger and tries to clean house and raise prices to get the business in order. What New Sprint is doing is essentially a variation of the Share Everything plans on ATT and Verizon.

What is Sprint doing with these new plans? These new My Way plans for multiple lines are more expensive than the current Everything Data plans. I wonder if those that were thinking of switching multiple lines to Sprint from another carrier will rethink their position now.

Yup I just hope this doesn't affect SERO plans. I plan to reupp in October when the Galaxy Note 3 comes out.

So does this mean that Sprint will keep the 800 CDMA network alive in that area once the NV transition is done? I mean the 800 RRUs in the sites deployed is already a sunk cost. Is a 800 CDMA lower power site equivalent to the distance of a 1900 CDMA site? I understand the need to do this because of the Motorola handoff issue. I am just surprised that they were allowed to do it.

How the heck are the areas around northern Ohio allowed to deploy 800 CDMA sites if its within the Canadian IBEZ zone? On the NV complete sites it shows them as 3G/800 complete.

You want to be looking for Band 26 support in FCC documents to verify that the LTE phone will support LTE 800.

Josh, I think the HTC 8XT phone is going to be released on July 19th. There are several places confirming this. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2421508,00.asp http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/09/htc-8xt-sprint/

I don't think Sprint should change their logo. Just drop the Nextel part of the name and you're good. Honestly majority of people are avoiding/leaving Sprint because of the poor 3G speeds and the poor coverage of 4G Wimax indoors. In some cases its due to the lack of voice coverage. Why change the brand of Sprint when its already recognized in the United States to a Japanese brand in Softbank.

How is the 800 CDMA voice experience so far indoors? Does it reach deep indoors like verizon and ATT?

Celebrate good times cmon!!!!!

Any news on the Clearwire vote?

Based on what I have read, backhaul is a huge bottleneck with NV 1.0. Just look at all those red dots vs. yellow/green dots on the NV complete map which that in itself tells me the story. At this rate there is no way Sprint will catch up to ATT.

Son is going to push for LTE expansion no matter what frequency its on. The fact is that PCS spectrum since its paired only accommodates for FD-LTE. Son couldn't change it to TD-LTE even if he wanted to. Son just wants to beat the crap out of Verizon and ATT. Cmon Daque...do you really have to ask if Son is also pushing for Clearwire TD-LTE? Why would Sprint/Softbank push so hard to get Clearwire if it didn't have the vision to deploy a more widespread 2.5 GHz 4G network (in this case LTE) that Clearwire failed to do so horribly back in 2010. Right now we all have to be patient. Once Sprint/softbank/clearwire merger becomes official with the Clearwire vote tomorrow we have to give the Softbank group at least 2 quarters to come up with a great 2.5 GHz TD-LTE plan to enhance the Sprint network. Also Japan doesn't use the PCS spectrum like we use here in the US.

Lets just hope that Sprint can salvage something from the existing NV panels/antennas or RRUs for the H block. It sucks that Sprint would have do all this for a 10 MHz block of spectrum but Sprint has shown great interest in the H block so they must have known going in that they would have to deal with this issue eventually. I hope a firmware update is able to resolve this issue for the H block in the existing 1900 RRUs. Hopefully Sprint can talk to the OEMs about how to deal with the H block situation with the existing 1900 RRUs.

I know all about the announcement. Show me where I can buy one. Thanks. Its not out yet. Hopefully by late august they should be released. Dont worry. Macinjosh saw some of those devices hit the FCC already. Sent from my Motorola Photon 4G using Tapatalk 2

The triband LTE devices are not vaporware. The 3 triband LTE devices like hotspots and usb dongles were officiallt announced at CTIA in late may. Go google "sprint triband lte devices ctia" Sent from my Motorola Photon 4G using Tapatalk 2

Well Sprint is working with the FCC and Mexican officials to work out a US/Mexico reband plan so that they can use part of the 800 MHz for CDMA and LTE. The proposed reband plan is in the pic below. You can see from the new band plan that Sprint will have access to 5.5 x 5.5 MHz which Sprint can deploy a 3x3 LTE and a CDMA carrier in San Diego. If the reason for Sprint not to deploy LTE in Orange County is because of this US/Mexico IBEZ restriction even though its beyond the 55 mile minimum distance, hopefully once this reband is done at least Orange County they can deploy the full 7x7 MHz ESMR band with a 5x5 LTE carrier and starting from San Clemente and south only a 3x3 LTE carrier will be deployed.

The current GS4 for CDMA..YES but LTE...NO!!! All LTE devices thus far does not support 800 MHz LTE. If Sprint does decide to release an updated version of the GS4 (rumored) with triband LTE support then this new model can support 800 MHz.

Where was this map retrieved from? Also is there a way to confirm that there is another SMR license holder in the region? Hopefully this is because of the IBEZ and hopefully be resolved with the reband plan. This map confirms why the 2 NV upgraded sites out in Hacienda/Rowland Heights only have 1900 MHz RRUs installed but it does have the 800 and 1900 MHz NV panels installed. This is good in that if the 800 MHz were allowed to be deployed at some point in the future they wouldn't need to have a NV panel swap and simply add a 800 MHz RRU for support.

Correct. The ESMR band is from 817-824 MHz and 862-869 MHz. So the 6.25 x 6.25 MHz of Mexican Primary spectrum does encroach into the US ESMR band by 1.5 MHz ending at 818.5 MHz. I wish the US and Mexico could swap the 6.25 x 6.25 MHz blocks so that the US Primary spectrum is adjacent to the Co-Primary spectrum so that Sprint would have the full 7x7 MHz of 800 MHz spectrum. But I do know that the US public safety uses spectrum from 806-809 MHz which is why the US chose the first half of 6.25 MHz

That is my question. But that all hinges on what does "Co-primary" mean for the 5.5 x 5.5 MHz part for the ESMR band. If that means that Sprint only has 5.5 x 5.5 MHz to play with, then I don't see why Sprint wouldn't deploy a 3x3 LTE and a CDMA carrier. Sprint should try to make use of all available spectrum that they have on hand for better voice and data speeds. I believe the NV panels on the NV cell sites in San Diego contain the typical 800/1900 MHz support? If so, then Sprint can add 800 MHz to it once this rebanding is finished. I surely hope that Sprint did not erect 1900 MHz only NV panels in the Mexican border affected markets (Tucson, San Diego, El Paso, southwest San Antonio).