jefbal99

The Note 2 is an RF beast, I get connectivity to LTE in places that my Wife's Photon Q only gets mediocre 3G signal.

Flipped airplane mode and now see this from my cdma galaxy note 2...

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ignore this as it is not an app issue, but a phone/rom issue

Flipped airplane mode and now see this from my cdma galaxy note 2...

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VZ would likely pay about $45 billion for the outstanding 45 percent of VZW. That would leave AT&T on the hook for $200 billion for the rest of Vodafone. AT&T would have to leverage itself to the hilt to pay that bill. So, I say go right ahead. Let AT&T drown itself in debt and turn the focus of its sadism overseas instead of here.

 

AJ

For Verizon to be wholly owned would be a good thing for them, but i can't see the positive for at&t here. As AJ said, they would have to leverage themselves to the eyeballs to make this work. If they start raising prices to cover the vig on their loans, then they will lose customers (domestically and internationally). The international mobile phone market is much different than the US market, not sure what at&t would be bringing to the table.

True, to a degree. The problem is, China requires you to go with a domestic partner. Part of it is corporate greed, the other part of it is ignorance. They try to build contracts to protect IP but in China, they don't enforce the IP at all, so it doesn't really matter what you put into the contract. The Chinese company says that it's their own technology and Kawasaki can't really do anything - regardless of what the truth is (like the wind turbine story).

 

One of the more interesting stories is the signal systems. They stole the IP to the signal switches but beyond that, they didn't have the experience to implement the IP. There have been a few tragic train crashes as a result.

I don't think it is at all fair to call ignorance. Maybe 15 or 20 years ago, but not in the last 10. China has always been suspect as a business partner.

Why didn't the moron just text in his tweet?

Also voice vs. data coverage is something nerds understand, not the layman...

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Upgrades on the Sprint tower in Lansing near the old GM plants between Willow and Saginaw. New panels and two RRUs' date=' indicating 800 SMR. I thought Lansing was in the 100mile exclusion zone, but we might be on the outer edge.

 

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Bigger version at Flickr with other pics.

Saw techs hanging from this tower last Friday. Wondering if it failed inspection and they had rework.

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with 5mhz paired is that a single EVDO data and a single voice carrier? maybe squeezing in a 2nd voice carrier?

Reading many of the articles posted, Kawasaki really has nothing to bitch about. It got paid for transfer of IP, which was then improved upon and replaced with a better product. Kawasaki needed to better protect its IP in the contracts or it needed to hold onto the tech and force China to turn elsewhere or develop in house. They got squeezed out by bad business decisions to get cash now rather than play the long game and are now crying foul.

Reverse engineering has occurred all through history, almost everything is based on a better design or updating a previous product. Very few inventions are "new" innovations.

As for the Nortel data theft, that is seriously scary, however, there appears to be a bit of corporate greed there too. The Canadian intelligence agencies went to them years ago asking if they wanted help to review their deals, but were brushed off. Sounds like Nortel was in it for the all might buck, rather than being responsible.

Huawei copying Cisco hardware/software is an old story, but it happens. As stated in a couple of the stories, USSR stole electronics from the US for years and got stuck behind because they could not improve upon them and had no history of the development. Sad that some countries don't have more strict IP laws and allow that type of equipment to be installed/utilized. Cisco has moved on to a new generation of products and software. Do you want to be caught in the past with a cheap knock off or an up to date product?

The wind turbine story is pure corporate espionage/greed and is quite sad. Pay your licensing fees while developing a product the rivals/replaces the legacy product. However, there is also to blame an inside man who provided the source code to the hardware. There was no hacking to steal the product, it was a simple human theft.

Just based on the business practices of Huawei, I wouldn't do business with them if I was Sprint/Softbank/Clear.

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dirt road

Yeah I got my jelly beab for my e4gt two days ago and it is like a brand new phone. However, I do have at least 3 complaints (bugs): 1.) Taking a screenshot by holding down volume down + power no longer works. Anyone know how to do a screenshot now? 2.) When charging, the red LED indicator no longer glows and 3.) When setting an alarm with the phone on silent, the alarm will not sound. this is very important to me as I nearly overslept for work yesterday! Also, as a less important note, my apps are no longer listed in alphabetical order post update (??)

I used to have that phone and I seem to remember that touchwiz ordered the apps funky. in the app drawer, hit menu and I think there is a settings button where you can select an alphabetical listing

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One thing I learned from upgrading my wife's line via Amazon is they only offer current plans and you have to upgrade your plan.

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Also, US Cellular is going to continue operating that network for a couple years, will Sprint be able to tap into the spectrum?

O Face

that's what upsets me. I forgot what smaller carrier had their phone go through the fcc but it had four different bands for lte. Sprint could have done it

That is business and it shouldn't upset you. I'm guessing if a smaller carrier had a device pass through with extra bands, it was because it was cheaper to piggy back on a larger carriers device with a small change rather than add something completely different.

No other carrier in the will have LTE in the SMR spectrum.

yeah I don't see why they couldn't just add these bands in there to future proof the phone. I know a few phones had 1x on 800 way before Sprint started nv

It would most likely cost more to produce the phones, taking away from Sprint's bottomline on devices. Also, they can try to sell you a new device next year when the service is live. It's all about the all mighty dollar...

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looks like good rf performance but it's still ridiculous they didn't include 800 LTE

We have no information about the 800Mhz FIT or any testing. I think the only confirmed 800Mhz LTE info is that one FIT was going to be somewhere in Montana. Sprint is skipping Dual band LTE for Triband LTE, so it will be end of the year for phones with more than PCS A-G LTE.

CM10.1 is my favorite thus far, never used digi's stripped down ROM because I had already moved to AOSP

While the momentum towards mobile devices is inexorable, the economics of wireless communication prohibit wholesale replacement of fixed/wifi infrastructure by cellular access. Yes, field people will live and die by cellular access but office workers will not.

More and more office workers are moving away from the traditional office to a roving or mobile office, dependent on mobile and wireless solutions.

Is nobody going to be working? Is everybody going to be out in the park? Or driving all the time? Or are going to be a society of leisure in which we are going to be out and about for 16 hours, just going to our houses only to sleep? Never using either the work or home network/wifi?

You hit another huge nail on the head, yes, everyone will be working but connecting via mobile device to enterprise services via the cloud. Citrix or VMware clients to get back to secure corporate networks via a mobile provider something I can easily see.

I work for the State of Michigan and we already do this with our Enterprise iPad and iPhone solutions. Verizon LTE is used here for those high speed connections, also field techs use iPhones to hook into the Enterprise VOIP system. These are all data hungry services that need high speed connections.

Consider anything you do on a PC/Laptop today will be wireless and mobile in the near future.

Running a CM10.1 based on March 14th code, I have never seen a false LTE connection in Signal Check Pro. I do however, have weird ASU numbers that I've sent to mike