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I am not surprised its not coming up yet. The galaxy note 2 was available on sprint on Oct 26th last year and it was announced in late Aug/early Sept at IFA 2012. I dont expect to see the Galaxy Note 3 until mid to late Oct. As for the HTC One Max, I don't expect that to be available until Oct as well. Hopefully HTC is smart enough to try to market that device sooner than the Galaxy Note 3 to start grabbing market share. As for the LG G2, I am really hoping it will come out by last week of Sept since Verizon and ATT are already offering on Sept 12 and 13th. Sprint would be dumb not to capitalize on the market share especially since we know that it has passed the FCC already. I think at this point the LG G2 is just awaiting enough inventory. I don't see any excuse to not release the LG G2 by late Sept.

Well apparently its much tougher to edit the SystemUI.apk file on Wimax phones (particularly on the Moto Photon). Mucked with trying to swap an alternate set of 4G Wimax icons that were available in the SystemUI.apk file but when I replaced it (even made sure the permissions were the same), I couldn't get the status bar to show up. Weird. But then again I had to rename like 10 files in the SystemUI.apk file since it was broken down a lot more on Wimax phones. Don't know why the status bar doesn't appear since I didn't edit any files from there.

So are you sure you renamed the correct file and rebooted? I assumed you used Root Explorer to replace the SystemUI.apk file after you made the changes.

AHHHHH makes total sense. I didn't know the SystemUI.apk contained the LTE icons for all the other major carriers.

Yeah. So it sounds like what you are saying is that the stock SystemUI.apk in the Sprint version contains the 4G LTE icons for other carriers (including Verizon) and you just need to find the LTE png file that matches up to Verizon LTE icon and rename that file to be stat_sys_data_connected_4g.png.

So you have Verizon 3G and 4GLTE png files on a Sprint device? Basically what I am asking is what do the png files needs to look like in order for the phone to recognize it. Is there a way you can post them.

Can you post a screenshot of what that looks like.

Where did you get the Verizon .png files from? Do you have the Verizon 3G and 4G .png files? Can it just be any pic of the Verizon 4G LTE logo and saved under the .png format?

Just curious for those thinking about purchasing this device, If it didn't have a S-pen like feature like the Galaxy Note series, would it be a deal breaker to you? Basically without a S-pen feature, the HTC One Max would be like the LG Optimus G Pro with a large screen phablet but no S-pen.

So what is the point of this thread again? I thought it was explained why there is no such thing as 5G at this point.

Why are there no stinkin HTC One Max rumors???? HTC needs to schedule an event soon to announce the HTC One Max with hopefully a surprise stylus feature to compete with the Galaxy Note 3. Don't want to wait too long after the Galaxy Note 3 or iPhone 5S announcements. I want to know what that black box is under the camera from the rumor picture.

DAT bezel indeed!!! Me likey.

Such a tease. Hopefully we will hear something on September 4th.

Ahh I see now. Yeah its misleading under the North America section. It does mention in the North America section about AWS 1700. Then if you go to the wikipedia page for AWS as shown below, you will find the following: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Wireless_Services#United_States_2 First sentence of the second paragraph. "The AWS band uses microwave frequencies in two segments: from 1710 to 1755 MHz for uplink, and from 2110 to 2155 MHz for downlink.[1]"

You are right. I meant to say that coverage per square foot is the number 1 benefit of lower frequency but another huge benefit of lower frequency is building penetration especially since folks have moved a ton of their mobile traffic indoors and its important that they are able to use it. At this point, Sprint and Tmobile customers care more about getting some sort of LTE coverage vs. caring about whether they can use it indoors.

Where did you read that? AWS spectrum is always paired with 1700 and 2100 MHz spectrum. Whatever table you are looking at is wrong or the 2100 MHz is assumed. The uplink is 1700 and downlink is 2100 MHz. In terms of video streaming on youtube/Netflix and web browsing on the go when you are out and about the downlink is what really matters. Think of it like your home ISP, you just care about the downlink speeds and not the uplink speeds. So if you think about it from a marketing perspective the perception that "lower frequency" equals "superior service" due to better building penetration characteristics. Just look at the marketing from Verizon and ATT, they have said that their LTE is superior than Sprint because they deploy LTE on 700 MHz which is low band frequency and penetrates buildings better. So for Tmobile advertising LTE at 1700 MHz is not technically wrong since the uplink part of LTE will be deployed on 1700 MHz but we know that the downlink is what really matters and that is deployed at 2100 MHz. It sounds better to advertise LTE at 1700 MHz than at 2100 MHz because lower is better. Heck they can say that Tmobile LTE beats Sprint LTE since Sprint LTE deploys at 1900 MHz.

I guess but I doubt we will see many sites upgraded to LTE 800 anyways by end of September. Sprint has said at their conference call that LTE 800 deployment would begin in Q4. But lets say a few markets have maybe a few sites up, is it really going to make a difference?

AWS spectrum is paired spectrum with a 2100 MHz downlink block and 1700 MHz uplink block. So when people refer or say "AWS" or "1700/2100 MHz" spectrum, they are basically saying the same thing. The 1700/2100 MHz blocks were assigned by the FCC to pair these 2 spectrum blocks together for auction. The 1700/2100 MHz spectrum blocks were not pulled out of thin air and are not random. Also you can't pair 700 and 850 MHz together since they are completely separate band classes. 700 and 850 MHz spectrum each have their own paired spectrum blocks.

Where did you hear that from? Sept 27th is too long considering that Verizon and ATT are selling it on Sept 12 and Sept 13. Sprint should sell it on Sept 13 to be competitive. We know its gone through FCC approval so it shouldn't be a problem.

Good that you saw the article but why bring it up in the first place if you knew? To me the Fiercewireless article pretty much implies that Verizon will deploy LTE on PCS after AWS. Verizon pretty much has nationwide AWS holdings. Of course some markets have more than others. But my point still remains that ATT and Verizon still need to refarm their 850 MHz holdings at some point.

The wait to confirm the Note 3 specs is killing me too. At least you have a S3 with LTE. I am still running the Moto Photon with Wimax and a 4.3 inch screen still running on Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread with horrible battery life. I think I have you beat. Hopefully the Note 3 will be worth it.

Why do you need to bet? OH you must not have heard that Verizon is already planning to refarm PCS for LTE in 2015. I made a topic about this before back in June. http://s4gru.com/index.php?/topic/4113-verizon-to-start-refarming-pcs-spectrum-for-lte-in-2015/ Fiercewireless article on Verizon refarming PCS for LTE in 2015. http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/verizon-start-refarming-pcs-spectrum-lte-2015/2013-06-27

Looks like the Galaxy Note 3 will have a new S-pen and features. I mean I really hope the S-pen is smaller so that the phone can be over thinner (rumors are that it can be only 8 mm which is as thin as the Galaxy S4). http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/08/26/galaxy-note-3-new-s-pen-features-promised-may-come-to-note-2/

I would start with sending a PM to Robert to let him know what kinda topics you can share and potentially write an article for onThe Wall and see where it goes from there. But basically the contributing author rank is for those that write articles on The Wall.

Makes sense. AT&T should be seeking for opportunities to refarm it current spectrum for LTE instead of trying to hoard spectrum. They have plenty of spectrum when all things are considered. Hopefully Verizon will refarm its 850 MHz spectrum for LTE.