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bigsnake49

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  1. It is switchable antennas on the iPhone. There are antennas (not on the iPhone) that are tuned to multiple frequencies simultaneously that look like branches on a tree, each branch to root length defining a different frequency (or they can be made to lokk like "F"s with multiple horizontal lines.
  2. I don't see it. Where are the efficiencies going to come from? The internal guard band(s) add up to the same percentage.
  3. Carrier aggregation is really a solution for the carrier end and not the handset end. It's already crowded in there.
  4. To an LTE Release 8 terminal, each component carrier will appear as an LTE carrier, while an LTE-Advanced terminal can use the total aggregated bandwidth. http://lteworld.org/blog/carrier-aggregation-lte-advanced Now granted this is a blog and not a spec. Unfortunately I can't raise up any of the specs at work. I have to wait till I get home tonight.
  5. I think that the old phones will still be able to access the subcarriers in the lower half of the 10x10 block while newer phones will access the subcarriers in the whole 10x10 block.
  6. About time for Clearwire to recognize which side their bread is buttered on. From the same article: Cochran said that nothing about Clearwire's relationship with Sprint legally forbids Clearwire from striking wholesale partnerships with other carriers. However, she said that Clearwire does need to think of its strong relationship with Sprint when looking at other deals. "I do feel that Clearwire and Sprint are very aligned," she said, adding that Clearwire's LTE buildout benefits both companies. Read more: Clearwire to start major TDD-LTE network construction in Q4 - FierceWireless http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/clearwire-start-major-td-lte-network-construction-q4/2012-09-19#ixzz26w2JCJOk
  7. Anandtech just published a Sunspider benchmark making the new iPhone5 the fastest smartphone ever, even beating an Atom based smartphone http://www.anandtech.com/show/6309/iphone-5a6-sunspider-performance Let the benchmark wars begin!!!
  8. MIMO on 800 is very hard to do. Period. You don't need MIMO for LTE. Now, an independent signal path is high desirable!
  9. Just remember that it's all firmware nowadays. Firmware can be flashed. Will it? Probably not. But it is doable. Not like the old days.
  10. Me, I rarely, if ever use the functionality. However public facing people like my wife, an attorney, real-estate agents, financial consultants really love the functionality. Between Sprint and Verizon I had hoped they had enough pull so that the functionality was included. If I was to make an excuse for apple, the way they designed this phone with the battery off to 1 side while the motherboard is on the other side, it seems that there's a limited amount of real estate in there and a separate radio path for EVDO was a tradeoff that they could have been limited by. Anyway,like I said, they could have sucked off some of the professionals that highly value SVDO and other GSM telephony features from AT&T. Missed opportunities.
  11. I'm disappointed for Sprint in that there could be some converts from AT&T (like my wife) that really beat the crap out of the SVDO functionality as well as merging several phone calls into one. On the other hand she's not eligible for an upgrade and neither am I nor are we off contract. Hopefully iPhone 5S or 6 will include both of those. See, she does not need quad core CPU or GPU or high MHZ she needs basic phone functionality to get things done. Bad Apple, even worse Sprint and Verizon!!!!
  12. I use my phone to stream music while working out. It's in my shorts pocket. A larger phone would force me to buy a belt carrier of some sort, or an arm carrier or I would have to carry it in my hands. I also carry my phone in my pants pocket all the time. A larger phone would force me to buy cargo pants to carry it.
  13. Go with the iPhone. The build quality, attention to detail, time to test and trade in value alone should convince you. Memory and number of cores are not consequential unless you're runing parallelizable linear programming problems (the math geeks will know what I'm talking about).
  14. It's not just the chipset that has to support SVDO, the phone itself will have to support it with a separate receive/transmit path for EVDO and 1x voice. It does have SVDO capabilities between 1x and LTE.
  15. Does Qualcomm's chipset 9615? support LTE band class 26?
  16. But yet the have UMTS 850 separated out. I think it has CDMA 800 (SMR) and CDMA 850, but I can't prove it.
  17. Just wait for either Anandtech's review or ArsTechnica review. My bigger question is does it have SVDO?
  18. Yeah, same here. I used to be a phone geek once, always getting the latest and greatest. No more. Let somebody else be the guinea pig. Now I'm the lumbering ox. I don't even upgrade my phones to the latest upgrade unless I'm convinced the release is stable.
  19. Same here. I have no intention of upgrading from my 4S until I can reliably get LTE on all 3bands, or at least 800 and 1900MHz. Not that I care for NYC that much:).
  20. The iphone 4/4S is a very hard design to improve upon. Other than changing some of the CPU/GPU internals and adding LTE with better battery life. NFC? who has NFC anymore. That effort has totally stalled.
  21. Really you guys like the VZW Motorola offerings? They look pretty much the same as their previous VZW offerings.
  22. I'm surprised that Apple has not created an Apple MVNO yet. That way they can control the whole experience.
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