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I don't think Sprint will lose customers just because their LTE won't hit 30 mbps like AT&T or VZW. To be honest people don't need that kind of speed on their phones. The advertised 6-8 should be MORE than enough to do anything on your phone. Heck in my opinion even 1-2mbps 3G is enough to do pretty good web browsing and watching Youtube videos. As long as customers get a good experience they will be happy. They aren't going to be like "My LTE is only 10 mbps and that guy is getting 15. I'm leaving Sprint!" That would just be foolish.

Robert has posted this same thing pretty much and I wholeheartedly agree with it. Its possible there might be a loss of some power user/tech savvy types who are far more worried about their Speedtest epeen size, but those would be in the small to mid single digit percentage minority at best...and I could envision the possibility that some of those minute losses very possibly could encompass some of the worst 'abusive' types mentioned previously as well.

Most people just want their phone to work consistently, bottom line....and as long as that happens with little to no interruption or latency issues they're going to be perfectly happy.

Just FYI to anyone with the Q that might be interested, there appears to be a new PRL as of today (non-corporate), 55008 (I did a random check and pulled it down, was previously on 55006). I managed to pull it with QPST and post it over on XDA, and sent digiblur a PM so he can throw his analysis goggles to it.

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On my photon Q I had huge battery drain leaving CDMA/4G on so I set it to CDMA only. eHRPD works with the phone on CDMA only. Is that abnormal?

I don't know if its abnormal on other phones, but it appears to be the norm for the Photon Q....ever since eHRPD showed up here a week or so ago its been solid on CDMA only setting here as well.

You don't need 4g to do voice and data right now. I know the evo lte and s3 can do it in 3g only areas.

 

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As does the Photon Q

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I don't have anywhere near as impressive a list as most of these. My list would be:

(1a-1b.) 2 Nokia feature phones in succession, the models of which I couldn't possibly begin to remember (this was back before 'Edge' became the high data speed king on Cingular-then-AT&T at the time)

(2.) Sony Ericsson W810i

(3.) HTC Fuze (AT&T branded Touch Pro)

(4.) Samsung Epic 4G (my switch to Sprint)

(5.) Motorola Photon Q

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And furthermore, as someone relatively new here, I wish I could just collectively 'like' every post in this entire thread all at once. There's a wealth of information as well as thought provoking insight contained here. I had saved this thread to read through later as I had time when I first saw it towards the end of my lunch hour yesterday and by the time I reached the end tonight easily an hour+ had passed.

BTW, the smartest acquisition play right now for Sprint is to merge with Dish. They have $6-7B in the bank, a stable business, although mature and they have some 40Mhz of spectrum. They could definitely use that $6-7B.

 

Markets like headlines. Sprint has not made any.

As a satisfied customer of both, I find this idea highly intriguing. I've no inkling what the realistic possibility of it even remotely happening would be, but it'd be one I'd be fascinated to see unfold purely from a consumer standpoint, to say nothing of the whole technical/spectrum angle of it.

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Nobody escapes my ban hammer.

 

I just now caught this, and I envision this turning very bad pyro. Batman will likely sue you for copyright infringement, and Thor will just flat out thrash you.

Maybe you'll luck out though and they turn out to be latched to Big Red.

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