bigsnake49

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).

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.

Does Qualcomm's chipset 9615? support LTE band class 26?

 

 

That is probably referring to CDMA850. Apple calls CDMA on 850mhz CDMA800. we will need to see the band classes, but them no separating the two, and using CDMA 800, 850,1900,2100 makes me believe SMR did not make the cut this year.

But yet the have UMTS 850 separated out. I think it has CDMA 800 (SMR) and CDMA 850, but I can't prove it.

Just wait for either Anandtech's review or ArsTechnica review. My bigger question is does it have SVDO?

amen. plus I'm seriously skeptical about Sprint's ability to deliver any of the things they've promised (particularly within this market) and to do so within an acceptable timeframe. my monthly Sprint bill is very high and to continue paying them nearly $3K yearly for data speeds that don't crack 0.3Mbps in my neighborhood is just tossing money in the garbage. to get on the hook for a new device and a even longer period of time is borderline masochism.

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.

I think the A6, the increased screen size and addition of LTE are a huge upgrade from the more or less pointless 4s

 

that being said, it runs into the same situation that every LTE device does for me and that is that I have zero intention of buying an LTE phone until Sprint has working LTE coverage in New York City.

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:).

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.

Oooh, the wet dreams of geeks.....

Really you guys like the VZW Motorola offerings? They look pretty much the same as their previous VZW offerings.

I'm surprised that Apple has not created an Apple MVNO yet. That way they can control the whole experience.

What

These phones look really nice, and Windows Phone 8 looks awesome... I just wish their casing wouldn't look like crayons!

 

-Luis

What they don't come in charcoal black?

This is an extremely small minority opinion. I've not met one person who has seen my GS-III that has said it was ugly. I constantly hear that it looks sexy. Even most iPhone owners drool over the case design.

 

However, I would think you would love the GS-III. It looks just like an iPhone, right? That's why I bought it. I can't tell the difference.

 

Robert via Samsung Galaxy S-III 32GB using Forum Runner

They just don't want to hurt your feelings, Robert:).

This is an extremely small minority opinion. I've not met one person who has seen my GS-III that has said it was ugly. I constantly hear that it looks sexy. Even most iPhone owners drool over the case design.

 

However, I would think you would love the GS-III. It looks just like an iPhone, right? That's why I bought it. I can't tell the difference.

 

Robert via Samsung Galaxy S-III 32GB using Forum Runner

Nope, it looks nothing like an iPhone. When Samsung does not copy the iPhone their phones are ugly. I like the new LG Intuition for Verizon.

Yeah, HTC is making a lot of money in the android sphere. Same with Motorola, right?

Nokia should have bought Palm. With Palm's software and Nokia's hardware, it could have been successful. I still like Nokia's hardware. At least they look attractive. Much more stylish than the GSIII. The GSIII is dipped in the sea of ugly;).

Cablevision leasing Apple TV box for $5 monthly to OMGFAST subscribers

Testing the waters for using Internet video devices to compete with fellow cable operators, Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) launched a promotion at its OMGFAST wireless broadband system in Florida in which subscribers can lease an Apple TV set-top for $5 monthly.

While Cablevision already competes with broadband Internet services from Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA), Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) and other cable operators in South Florida with a wireless Internet product that offers subscribers download speeds of 50 Mbps for $29.95 monthly, the Apple TV promotion OMGFAST is touting this week marks its entry into the video business. OMGFAST is offering free installation of the Apple TV set-top, which retails for $99. The device lets users access content from Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) iTunes library, in addition to video from Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX), Hulu, YouTube, Vimeo and other content providers.

Formerly known as Clearband, OMGFAST relies on Multichannel Video Data Distribution Service (MVDDS) spectrum. It delivers high-speed data from microwave transmitters placed on communications towers and rooftops to subscribers with fixed wireless receivers that look similar to a high powered satellite dish.

Read more: Cablevision leasing Apple TV box for $5 monthly to OMGFAST subscribers - FierceCable http://www.fiercecab...5#ixzz25d6XJfox

I think that the Clearwire and Dish spectrum can be used for something like this. Sprint can be the wireless network provider as well as the backbone provider (since they are upgrading their backbone to 400G) for both Dish and DirectTV for their Video on Demand services. They might need to acquire Level 3 and/or XO Communications for their Metro loops though.

I know it is fashionable to bash Apple, but this is a completely different lawsuit than the one that the one they were awarded $1B on. For a bit more detail:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/31/apple-samsung-galaxy-s-iii-galaxy-note-patent-lawsuit/

This victory is nothing. Apple has not really dragged out the touch gestures patents yet. Those will shut down the whole ecosystem. Samsung should just license the patents at $30/phone and give Apple major discounts on components. They might want to start producing a lot more WP8 phones.

That htc wizard obviously ripped off the iPhone... blatantly

Yep with the frequently malfunctioning slide mechanism for the QUERTY keyboard and Windows Phone OS, it certainly did. Pinch? Yes, the only way you could close the slide sometimes:you had to pinch just the right spot to close it.

Unlike Samsung. Microsoft was willing to cross license. So apple and Microsoft can't sue each other for patent infringement.

 

HP would have sued if it could, so I doubt they could. They could have recoup some of their losses from WebOS. They probably do not have any patents that could stick. PalmOS and iOS have little in common.

The best thing for HP to do is to approach Apple and license WebOS to them to use as they see fit. There are a few things in there that Apple can use. In exchange HP can start making OSX Server boxes.

The fact that Google warned them that their (Samsung) designs were too close to Apple's really strengthened Apple's case.

There is an art to copying other people's work. Samsung was just blatant! As blatant as the mainland Chinese man that called me at 3AM to ask me about a module in a system I had written to which he had no license. At the time we had no customers in China. We still don't know how he got hold of our source code.

By the precedence set forth from this trial, if Henry Ford had patented a chassis that has four rounded wheels then we would drive no other brand of car. As far as Samsung's icons looking similar... the doors on my Chevy look similar to the doors on my friends Nissan. The steering wheel was also an amazingly successful feature that started on one car. Point is we are getting very vague with what we are calling copying. The simple truth is that a Galaxy S and iPhone function as two completely different phones.

 

Honestly though Apple fanboys should be thrilled about Android. If Android hadn't hit the market then Apple probably never would've made all the improvements that went into the iPhone 4. Competition fuels innovation.

Having being associated with the development of large size systems, we had roadmaps that extended to 4-5 generations. I'm sure that Apple did as well. The roadmaps are even more secret than the different prototypes than have been exposed. We have no idea what Apple's roadmaps included.

For all of you ABA (anybody but Apple), maybe this will lead to the rebirth of WebOS, which was a truly innovative OS, or even Blackberry OS 10, as well as Microsoft's Phone's OS, OSes that are not "me too".

I think Samsung thought they had the bull by the horns because they were the largest provider of screens, chips etc. for Apple and that would shield their phone division from Apple. They were wrong. They were arrogant and they are going to pay for it. Apple is already shifting their business to other display providers and they are also going to shift their flash memory and ARM chip manufacturing to other chipmakers. Intel has wanted the Apple business for a long time and they will be the largest beneficiaries. I'm sure that Samsung will try to replace Apple with other customers, but not too many companies can afford to prepay for their orders. The $1B award is peanuts (although it can go up to $3B, triple damages). It's the loss of business from Apple that will hurt more.

I also see Microsoft, and their licensees, benefitting from this, since carriers might be hesitant to deal with Android handset makers. Microsoft, licensed Apple patents and also signed a non-copying agreement. They have innovated, bringing a new interface paradigm to the smartphone wars, unlike Google and definitely Samsung.