dcmike

Haven't put much thought in to it, but I'd imagine it's some combination of personal preference and the much wider availability of network diagnostic tools for the Android platform. Not paranoia, it's reality. It's well documented how much usage data Android collects and sends back to Google. I don't literally think the Google executive suite is sitting around poring over my phone calls, that was sort of tongue-in-cheek. But Google is first and foremost an advertising company - they don't give Android away for free because it feels good. They do so to collect usage data and build a more precise marketing profile on you. Log in to your Google account on a desktop/laptop machine and poke around your dashboard - you may be surprised to see how much information they have gleaned about you. Or you may not care about your privacy at all.. to each his own. Myself, I'm not spending money on a smart phone to give Google the privilege of showing me better customized ads. They should give the phone away for free if that's the case. Apple on the other hand is a hardware company - they make the bulk of their profits on overpriced devices and bulk sales of apps. They are certainly not without faults, not the least of which includes shady labor practices in China. I've never defended Apple here nor have I bashed any other hardware manufacturer. Rather I was pointing out the childish "mine's better than yours" attitude that seems to prevail. A little good-natured ribbing is always fun, but when a bias becomes ingrained and routine the culture becomes such that sponsors may not want to continue supporting the site. I like coming here not only for the Sprint updates but the unrivaled wealth of cell network knowledge in general. I would not be surprised to find others here who feel the same way.

Gee, another thread in which the S4GRU staff denigrates their sponsors based on the device they use There is nothing technically preventing Sensorly from releasing an app. There is a thriving jailbreak community (saurik, founder of Cydia, estimates roughly 10% of iPhones - thats many millions) which provides APIs and unfettered device level access to developers who wish to circumvent the App Store restrictions. It is such a large market in fact there are developers whose sole income is sales of jailbreak apps. Not everyone who chooses an iPhone is a moron, rube, technophobe, or whatever. I would simply like a smartphone that doesn't require me to be logged in to Google to enable its full functionality. I'm not paying $200+ for a device so that Page, Brin, Schmidt & Co can creep on my every GPS location, text message, phone call, and URL I visit. Through a combination of iOS opt-outs and jailbreak tweaks I can be completely assured of my privacy on an iPhone. The same cannot be said for Android.

Big props to all the nut jobs willing to risk their lives climbing towers maintaining our cell phone networks. Definitely not a task for me, I'm far too clumsy for that!

Easy peasy. Any hints at what you're looking for?

I'm pretty sure they did at the Fort Totten green line platform. If I stand near the outbound end of the platform (where all the new little micro cell panels recently popped up by the elevator), I get a strong LTE signal. But if I walk down towards the inbound end (the part that's under gound), my phone switches back to 3G.

Thanks digiblur, this is a great article. I'm really looking forward to the next part!

Snapped a quick pic of a Sprint COW at the National Mall this afternoon.

I was driving on East-West Highway between Georgia and Colesville yesterday and saw LTE too. No sensorly for iPhone 5 unfortunately.

Hi, Could you explain this a little better for me? According to this page: http://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/ the iPhone 5 does support LTE band 5 (850 MHz). thanks edit: I think I may have answered my own question. It looks as though Sprint's 800 MHz spectrum falls in LTE band 18. Is this correct?