ericdabbs
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How the heck do I upload attachments in a post? I don't know how to upload files into my library.
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Dang. I did not even look for it. Will check tomorrow.
Please do because I am very interested to see how this feature works.
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Can anyone who has the LG Viper 4G LTE phone confirm that this Connections Optimizer software is included in the preloaded apps by Sprint? Also if the app does exist, have you used it and does it work well with transitioning you from 3G/4G to Wifi? Maybe a description of what you see on your phone when the transition happens would be helpful.
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Alvin, I live in Los Angeles and I am sponsor and I can confirm that LA deployment is ongoing with several sites up and running already. Become a sponsor and you can see the nice map that Robert has created to keep track of what sites are up and running.
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Robert,
I would expect that between the mounting of the radios on the antenna masts and the 1x Advanced up to 70% increase in coverage primarily because of interference cancellation, they might be close to doubling of the coverage area, all other things being equal (downtilt, power, etc). Now if they are not skipping any legacy CDMA sites in their deployment, they probably are turning down the power, thereby cancelling out some of the coverage improvements.
For CDMA800 they are using 1x Advanced's up to 3x capacity improvement and not trading off for distance. If they
I would much rather have Sprint configure the 1x Advanced 1900 MHz carriers to support 4x capacity so they can shut down more 1x carriers. The towers are located to account for 1900 MHz anyways so its better to max out more voice capacity to free up more spectrum for LTE. Now there are placed like in New Orleans were it makes sense to use the 70% coverage since the towers are not strategically located. CDMA800 no doubt does not need the 70% extra coverage and instead needs to max out 4x capacity especially if its going to handle indoor voice calls.
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I am headed to an important meeting, but I will add this point. The number of total sites being completed in 2012 is way down. They were initially aiming for 20,000 sites in 2012. NV is a total of 38,000 sites. This may not be a total schedule slip, as they may make it up in 2013. But it is a slip.
If I were Sprint, I'd consider changing strategies. Perhaps whole market conversions are not the way with the current schedule. Instead of having four/five crews in each of the markets now, maybe break it up and get two of those crews moving on to another market. Even though it will slow down one market, the other one will start getting deployment early. And more markets can have some sort of LTE coverage.
However, I wouldn't slow down Chicago, given their problems. If anything, I would speed that one up.
Robert via NOVO7PALADIN Tablet using Forum Runner
I agree. If there any markets that are held up for whatever reason (awaiting backhaul, zoning issues, etc) those crews need to be put into use to maximize efficiency. If there are 4 or 5 crews working in that market, move 2 of those crews to the next available market that has all their ducks in order and start building. Sprint cannot afford to wait. Hopefully we will get more clarity as the 2012 year progresses and maybe they can catch up.
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Looks like Sprint today at the Q1 CC confirmed that Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile will be getting 4G Wimax later in Q2. I think this is good news for Virgin and Boost Mobile customers since now they will have access to 4G speeds and hopefully this will help relieve capacity on its 3G network. I really do hope that Sprint chooses the $10 premium data charge because they will need the Virgin and Boost Mobile customers to subsidize the Clearwire costs.
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Just to throw my two cents in. The S4 chip may be somewhat faster, but it's because it's based on the ARM Cortex-A15 core. I believe the Tegra 3 is based on the Cortex-A9 core. I think Nvidia isn't planning to use the A15 core until the Tegra 4 comes out this fall. The A-15 is a newer more efficient processor design. I believe Samsung's next gen exynos 5250 processor is also based on the A15 core.
You are correct in that the Tegra 3 is based on Cortex-A9 core. The Tegra 4 will for sure be Cortex-A15 core based but it won't be available until Q1 2013 not this Fall. In the Fall of 2012, the Tegra 3+ chip should be available which does support LTE.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/07/reported-tegra-4-roadmap-hints-at-lte-q1-2013-release/
It does appear that the Exynos 5250 processor will be dual core Cortex-A15 core based.
http://androidandme.com/2012/03/news/a-closer-look-at-samsungs-killer-2-ghz-exynos-5250/
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Yes, but the OEMs have a much better picture of when next generation chips are going to be released. In the Bionic example, Motorola probably contracted for Tegra 2 chips and had a supply date from Nvidia, but found out that Nvidia couldn't come through in time. They could be currently working with TI or Nvidia or even Qualcomm to be the first device with their new next gen chip. I wouldn't think you could be a market leader by using whatever was the best 4 months prior to the release of your device. You have to push the limits or you'll be left behind.
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The reason Motorola did not go with the Tegra 2 for the Bionic eventually was that it had problems working with LTE which generated too much heat with the baseband radio chips and definitely battery life. It had nothing to do with not meeting a supply date because around that time in March/April 2011, Motorola was building the Photon 4G for Sprint and they were using the Tegra 2 so Nvidia must have met supply demand and it wouldn't have been hard to meet the Bionic's supply demand. Motorola tried to go with the Tegra 2 but just later decided to go with what was the next best chip which was the OMAP 4 so it could provide LTE support which was their number 1 priority. I know phone manufacturers are always looking ahead and I am sure they even get some early samples of their next chip from each chip maker. However the problem is not that the chip itself but when will they mass produce that chip and meet that customer's supply demand that you mentioned. The Tegra 4 won't come out until Q1 2013 and the OMAP 5 won't come until Q3 2012 and that information has been leaked already. Any phones that plan to be released by summer won't meet that deadline.
First thing first is that the number one thing Nvidia must get right is provide LTE support on their Tegra series especially the Tegra 3 if they want any manufacturer to use it in 2012. Until they can do that, I don't care if they have 8 cores on the chip and a lower die size that has great battery life. Obviously there is a reason why HTC and Motorola has chosen to go with the S4 and not the Tegra 3.
My point earlier was that if Sprint is expecting to get the Photon 4G LTE phone out by July/Aug 2012 time frame, they must have chosen all their hardware chips by now and a working prototype because we know that they would have had to do preliminary lab tests on the hardware chips and talk with Sprint on the specs and features of the phone. By now a Tegra 3 without LTE support on the Photon 4G LTE phone is not acceptable. This is also the reason why the US version of the HTC One X for both AT&T and Sprint are using the S4 instead of the Tegra 3 because of the LTE support. The international version of the HTC One X uses Tegra 3 since it did not need LTE support.
Hopefully what Robert posted about a phone hitting the Sprint labs on 5/7 is the Photon 4G LTE phone.
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Where is this "deploy list" that you guys see? How do you know when an LTE tower is going up?
Since you are a sponsor, go to the Interactive S4GRU Maps forum and click on the NV sites complete thread. From there you can see the maps of active NV towers up with a legend on the bottom of whether they have 3G or 4G up.
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The S4 is a good chip and may very well be the best out there for a phone right now, but there are a slew of other chips on the horizon that could blow the S4 away. The Tegra 3 is, for the most part, a tablet inspired processor. It is bulky and overkill for what a smartphone needs. Android OS is not optimized for a quad core, and doesn't use the full potential of the Tegra 3. As of right now, the Tegra 3 is not good for much more than bragging rights when it is put into a phone.
Depending on what Samsung reveals for the GSIII, we could very well see Motorola keep pace. If the GSIII will have a quad core processor, I would expect Motorola to think long and hard about how they will compete. The Motorola Photon successor would likely keep pace and have a quad core processor if they can find one that plays nice with LTE.
We also should keep in mind that just because ICS is currently optimized for dual core chips, as it was built with the Galaxy Nexus, Jelly Bean could be optimized for Quad Core potentially increasing the benchmarks of the Tegra 3 and other quad cores. There has been no official word as to who will build the next Nexus or what processor it will have. This could be the year that the Nexus finally jumps out ahead of the competition instead of being the last to the party.
Maybe we could see a A15 based quad core system on a chip in the Nexus... Something like this http://s4gru.com/ind...he-competition/
I don't disagree with you. Of course there will always be up and coming chips that will try to be better than the other competitor which is why competition is great. The question is whether these better chips are available now in mass production so that it can be used in phones. At some point if you are Moto, LG, Samsung, HTC you have to just choose the best chip that is out there currently to start building that phone model or else you'll always be running the rat race and will never build the phone. Moto, LG, Samsung, HTC can are always building new phone models and they can choose the best chip available for them at that time. Since the Photon 4G LTE version should be due sometime in July or Aug, the S4 is still currently the best chip that is out there until TI or Nvidia steps up their game and starts releasing better chips right now in mass production. For the time being, I am giving the S4 the top dog award and the chip I want to see in the Photon 4G LTE until it can be proven wrong.
If TI released their OMAP 5 chips right now then I would say Moto should explore that option. Lets not forget that the reason the Droid Bionic (which was the phone I was about to leave Sprint for) was delayed for several months last year was because it had problems with the Tegra 2 chip working with LTE. Ultimately Moto decided to create the Droid Bionic with the TI OMAP 4 chip to be compatible with LTE.
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I need to stop paying insurance just so I have $8/ mo less I have to come up with.
If you don't do much to your phone, then you don't really need the insurance. Even as much as hacking as I do on Android, I haven't bricked a phone yet. To be honest, if the deductibles are also increasing as well to $150 - $200 then I mind as well find a used phone on craigslist for cheaper. I only plan to use the phone for 2 years anyways because new ones will be far superior than my current phone.
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I don't know that I would say that the S4 dual core is faster... The S4 is a slim, optimized processor that embarasses other dual core processors, but the Tegra 3 holds its own against the S4. You combine the power saving capabilities of the Tegra 3 with a RAZR MAXX battery and you have a long lasting quad core device.
we'll have to see because currently the Tegra 3 doesn't have LTE capability on their chips. Nvidia says they will have Tegra 3+ chips with LTE capability available in Q3 2012 but that remains to be seen. If a Photon 4G sequel were to come out, I would think Sprint would launch it in August like it did last year.
Also Motorola has been saying that they are stepping away from Nvidia Tegra and even TI OMAP in favor of the Qualcomm Snapdragon chips just because its gotten great reviews. Rumors of an Atrix 3 on ATT will be based on the Snadragon S4 chip. To be honest the Tegra 3 and OMAP 4 series is getting long in the tooth. ARM Cortex A9 chips and 40 nm die size on the OMAP 4 and Tegra 3 does not compare to the Snapdragon S4 ARM Cortex A15 and 28 nm die size.
http://www.gottabemo...rtphone-lineup/
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It looks like the TEP insurance is going to raise prices again from $8 to $11/month and the phone deductible will be raised from $50 or $100 to $150 or $200 depending on the phone starting June 16.
Personally I think it is ridiculous that insurance will cost over $10/month. Every other major carrier still maintains its phone insurance at $7/month. I cancelled my insurance about 6 months ago after having it for about 1.5 years. I ended up using my insurance only once because I couldn't receive calls and got it mainly because the HTC Touch Pro was an unreliable phone. I can see a lot of cancellations on the phone insurance if its $11/month.
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There are some articles running about this rumor. I personally do not want to see the Tegra 3 on the Motorola Photon 4G sequel. I would much rather have the faster S4 dual core chip. I don't really trust the Tegra series chips currently. Hopefully we will hear more information from Sprint in late June about this and hopefully an August time frame for release.
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19736_7-57419515-251/sprint-could-have-motorola-photon-4g-successor/
http://pocketnow.com/android/motorola-photon-4g-sequel-tipped-for-sprint
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Here is the article that Robert was talking about.
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I think it is permanent because why would they put out wimax phones knowing they ain't gonna keep wimax (vm boost) I think sprint Is gonna have lte and they gonna have wimax for their prepaid customers.
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If you mean by permanent until 2015 then I would agree with you that VM and BM will stay with Wimax. However if you mean that sprint will keep Wimax for VM and BM past 2015, then I disagree. Eventually everyone will migrate to LTE but for VM and BM, I hope Sprint is not planning to move them to LTE until 2015. Even Clearwire at some point probably in 2015 will tear down the Wimax network and refarm that spectrum to add additional LTE carriers.
To be honest, VM and BM customers should not be complaining since even AT&T and verizon don't offer 4G service to its prepaid customers and should be happy with getting 4G Wimax service or a decent Wimax footprint. The majority of the big markets are covered in the Wimax network. Tmobile offers its HSPA+ network and other prepaid carriers like MetroPCS and Cricket are offering LTE service for its customers but their LTE networks are negligible. MetroPCS has only about 16 LTE markets and I believe Leap only has 1 or 2 LTE markets.
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Wow I was not aware of this fact on the legacy towers. I am curious what the fix will be because even band aid fixes are better than nothing until Network Vision hits that market. I wonder how long have they known about this problem.
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I think the only people that still really use pagers are doctors since they have to be on call.
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As long as the phones don't cost a arm and a leg this can be a win win for all party's involved
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk 2
I would think the phones would have to be discounted to the 300 dollar range instead of the $550 retail price points. Even MetroPCS 4G LTE phones are between 199 and 299.
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i love my wimax. while its a great idea for sprint to include wimax phones on their prepaid services.. this is going to slow down my already slow 4G data even more now. wimax wont see any upgraded backhaul, correct?
Clearwire already has great microwave backhaul on its towers. Although I don't know what the backhaul capacity is of whether its 1 Gbps or greater. Also keep in mind that while Virgin and Boost customers will be coming onto the Clearwire 4G Wimax network there will also be a ton of the original HTC EVO 4G and Samsung Epic 4G customers that will be exiting the gates for the LTE phones this summer thus balancing out the additional Virgin and Boost customers. At the end, I believe the Wimax speeds will stay the same as they are currently. I know I plan to get a LTE phone next fall when my contract ends to replace my Photon 4G phone which I currently love.
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Imagine if they offered the Samsung Epic Touch 4G on VM and BM for prepaid. I think its a great idea to rebrand existing Wimax phones to VM and BM to clear out its inventory and provide prepaid customers a 4G Wimax alternative to compete with MetroPCS, Cricket and Tmobile. I would be curious if Sprint will implement the $10 surcharge to cover the Clearwire costs or else it would eat into the VM and BM profits on their already low prices.
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I do hope its true, just not getting excited until I see it from a more trustworthy source.
The Technobuffalo article did mention that it read rumors from Pocketnow.com about how Sprint was rebranding Wimax phones onto the Virgin Mobile line. Below is a link to the EVO 3D being rebranded to Virgin Mobile as the Evo V 4G. This helps put some credence as to Sprint's 4G plans for prepaid carriers Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile.
http://pocketnow.com...r-virgin-mobile
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I don't think this is a good idea. It's not fair that they'll be paying less and get 4G when we are paying more.
What makes you think that Sprint won't increase prices to account for 4G Wimax. They could easily implement the premium data surcharge onto prepaid for 4G Wimax service. Keep in mind the 4G service they would be getting is 4G Wimax NOT 4G LTE which will be nationwide. Us postpaid customers will eventually move onto LTE anyways. Anything that can help shift customers off of the 3G network is more than welcomed. Its about time that Clearwire's spectrum is put into good use.
Clearwire TDD-LTE Network to Serve 4G "Hot Zones" in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle and More
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Hopefully we can get a Clearwire inside source that can provide more color on the Clearwire LTE rollout. I really like the list AJ.
Also why isn't Portland on the list? I would remove Cincinnati and replace with Portland.