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WiseGuy321

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  1. Nope because the news came from Milan Milanovic who, as far as I know, actually works for Ookla. Sprint's average speed climbed to 23.9 Mbps from 14.5Mbps last November.

    Milan doesn't work for Ookla. He's just a TMobile schill. 

     

    Remember his Intel vs Qualcomm iPhone modem articles? He conveniently forgets to mention how he's sponsored by Qualcomm and has a working relationship with them.

     

    People shouldn't take him seriously, unless he's quoting crowd-sourced data. His "laboratory" tests mean nothing.

     

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  2. 11 minutes ago, Paynefanbro said:

    So a lot of those have the potential to be Sprint small cells.

    Most of them aren't (yet)

    Sprint is on the Extenet oDAS nodes down Boylston + Newbury, but the rest of them are typically Verizon and T-Mobile.

    All the Extent nodes in Brookline are Verizon-only. You can tell by looking on the side. They have Verizon stickers on them.

    The North End Extenet nodes are Verizon too. Extenet + Verizon met with the residents a few months ago to propose their plans.

    The majority of Crown Castle nodes in Dorchester/Mattapan are from MetroPCS, so T-Mobile.

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  3. VZW uses B13 not 17 which can't go any higher than 10x10. They can reframe to add B5, VZW also bought B66 there.

     

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    Correct. And Verizon has deployed 20x20 B2 and B4 across the entire NYC metro area. Only EVDO/1x left is on B5.

     

     

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  4. Looks like T-Mobile already has B71 up in some areas, even areas that I frequent up in the Northeast.

    The timeframe is pretty impressive!

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     9 months between the time the boundaries of band 71 got known (mid-January), band defined, network equipment and a flagship phone designed and installed/released to customers

     

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  5. 10 minutes ago, nexgencpu said:

    I work with one company that uses surfaces 4 and 5 exclusively for 200+ employees working remotely, and they have been awesome. Less than 5% of them have had issues.

    Good for them I guess...

    Apparently Consumer Reports recently pulled their recommendations for entire lineup due to poor quality and most of the comments on Surface subreddit seem to show similar issues. 

    I have no idea, they wouldn't give me one when I asked :rofl:

  6. 5 minutes ago, Jones said:

    Off topic but in all of the hospitals I've worked in - the truly high res diagnostic imaging, like what a radiologist uses, is done on a PC with big monitors in portrait mode. I've never seen a Mac in a reading room...aside from the radiologist's iPhone (which is being used to scroll through ESPN while working...) (that's a joke...sorta)

    The workstations hooked up to the MRI/PET/etc are PC. 

    We use Macs in the reading room. Many of my fellow radiologists use Retina MacBooks (with dock + ext. monitor) and/or 4k/5k iMacs in our offices. IT has testing Surfaces, but hardware reliability hasn't been the greatest...

  7. 3 hours ago, greenbastard said:

    If you need your phone serviced you have to make an appointment, which at times can take up to a week. Sure, you can always mail it in, but that means being without a phone for over a week and a half.

    AppleCare has offered exactly what you want for years...

    https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/service/express-replacement

     

  8. 14 hours ago, JustinRP37 said:

    It all depends on your use case. Apple definitely is great for computer and smartphone newbies, but it is still quite prevalent in scientific settings. 

    This is correct. In the medical world, I prefer Apple hardware. For example, the software I use to read scans is far better optimized for iOS/OS X than PC/Androids. I've used Windows desktops + laptops with high-res displays and there hasn't been a single one without image scaling problems across the OS. This is important because size + shape is used as a method of diagnosis. 

    Another example is as simple as looking through MRIs on my phone. If I'm quickly flipping through the scans, Android phones typically can't keep up. There is lag and choppiness. I experience none of this with an iPhone or iPad.

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    Just don't like when people bash people for their tech decisions. 

    These arguments are a waste of time. Why do PC/Android guys feel so strongly against Apple's ecosystem?

    If people want to call me "tech illiterate" and a "sheep" for using the best tools to diagnose my patients, so be it. 

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  9. 23 minutes ago, kg4icg said:

    Both my HTC's came  with a Quickcharge adapter. You might want to do some research. 

    You replied to the wrong post, but yes, you are correct about HTC. 

    According to XDA, it seems that LG does not supply the newest Quick Charge adapter with the G5, etc. 

    My point still stands with the likes of OPO and Motorola. Why not bash them for charging extra? Or is it cool to bash Apple for no reason at all these days?

  10. 12 hours ago, kg4icg said:

    Interesting, but who else offers in-store replacements at the Genius Bar?

    Google + Pixel? Nope

    HTC? Nope

    Samsung? Nope

    LG? Nope

    Even a company as large as Samsung doesn't offer flat-rate screen replacements for their products. There's a price to pay for superior customer service. Why are we acting like Apple is suddenly doing something different?

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  11. 14 hours ago, kg4icg said:

    Paying extra for what android includes a standard, oh the Sheeple runs deep.

    You seem very misinformed and quick to bash for no reason. 

    How is this any different from what Android OEMs do? These phones typically don't come with the Dash charge or QuickCharge bricks. All of that costs extra. 

    So it's ok for Samsung/LG/HTC/OPO/Motorola/etc to charge extra, but not Apple? Why the double standard?

  12. 2 hours ago, Arysyn said:

    Maine doesn't even get very good broadband internet options either. I once considered moving to Maine, checked the internet options in both Bangor and Portland areas, wasn't impressed at all. They really need more high-tech there.

    Meh, I don't think you understand how rural the state really is. Outside of Portland, Augusta, and Bangor (and all of their suburbs), there is no reason for 100+ mbps broadband.

    Spectrum recently took over Time Warner and bumped up the residential broadband speed tiers to 60/10 for normal residential accounts. Before that, it would max out at like 15/10 in the areas I frequented.

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