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That will of course lead to Seidio creating their next case with an integrated, sliding privacy cover for your camera lens.

The difference between Sprint's post-NV speeds and Verizon for most users will not even be noticed. It will be like having a car that will do 120mph top speed and complaining because your friend's car will do 140mph. That's for most users. Granted, if you are streaming Spotify and Pandora simultaneously while uploading footage of your kid's brit milah to Facebook you might need that extra oomph.

I would guess that the percentage of Sprint customers who know about and run speed tests is quite small. Our impact on the network is probably nothing compared to those who are tethering their tablets and streaming episodes of The Cleveland Show on Hulu.

I ran a continuous Root Metric test while on the Beltway from Georgia Ave in Silver Spring to RT 202 in Largo. Download speeds were not very good at all for long stretches but the upload speeds were pretty good for 3G.

Good old reliable stalking takes care of that for most women. The more tech savvy just use the Find My Boyfriend app.

Oh well, I did end up getting a new device for my wife. It's just not a smartphone. Her 6 year old laptop has been slowly marching towards the grave and just this week it decided to hasten its footsteps. So the new phone has been put on the back burner for a bit. Thanks for all the advice guys. I was looking forward to revealing the final decision.

I was a flashing fool on my OG Evo but I am reluctant to root this phone. I am so much less interested in futzing around with stuff now. I remember all the issues they were having with getting Wimax working with some ROMs. Is it the same with LTE on these ROMs?

So where is this Liquipel store with the retail spokesmodel women running the joint? "Working at Liquipel is so much fun I just want to laugh and flip my hair!"

It's usually not a good idea to take an OTA when you have a rooted phone. Devs usually have a rooted version of the OTA available soon after the release. Sometimes even before the official OTA release.

Well that didn't take long. I didn't look at the link but I wonder how much of that market share is from Gingerbread and earlier iterations?

I agree. The other day I called my wife from the car and I had the window down and the radio on. She said I sounded fine, which for her was a ringing endorsement. With my old EVO I would have to close the windows and make sure the radio was down. She didn't even realize I had the window open. Granted that won't make a difference when I am calling the house from my EVO but I definitely want to experience HD voice. Not that I make many phone calls with my phone...

One of the best things about this battery is that it charges rapidly when plugged into a wall charger. My old EVO was taking forever to recharge as it got older.

Still getting excellent battery life. I think this may be the best yet.

"Happiness with their LTE is what counts with children. Happiness and harmony"

I feel exactly the same way. When I hit the 2 part auth I get annoyed but it quickly passes as I remember that it's there for my protection. I also use LastPass for password management and generating strong random passwords. This way I change them regularly and never have to worry about remembering them.

That wasn't a JATO pack back there...

I haven't used the stock voicemail on any phone since I started using Google Voice. I don't do the Sprint integration though. I just use it for the voicemail and for custom greeting messages for particular users or groups of users. I've never had a problem with it. I also have every voicemail sent to me via email so I always have a backup copy.

I just went to Verizon's online data usage calculator to see what my usage would be and I was amazed. If I wasn't using wifi for most of my data I could go over 4GB a month pretty easily. Most months I wouldn't hit that but I could see it happening more than once or twice a year and at $15GB for overages that could get ugly real fast. I must amend my earlier statements and wholeheartedly agree with Robert's title for this thread. Data caps really do stink! And how!

Some things are better left unknown. There are many things I've become aware of over the years that I wish I had just never known about. There are some things you can't un-see and things you can't un-know.

That's funny. My next question to you was going to be about rooting her phone. The reason I'm looking for the right solution is I don't want to get blamed when it doesn't work like she wants it. I can hear it now; "I should have stuck with the Blackberry, but nooooooo! YOU wanted me to upgrade! Some upgrade!"

I missed the part about the pooled usage. I can see how that would get annoying. I am hopeful that Sprint doesn't go that way anytime soon.

What may help is to do a realistic analysis of your data usage to determine if you will be likely to approach the cap. 4GB is a lot of mobile data and most people will never approach that kind of usage. I know I'll get some power user posting that he regularly sucks up a half terabyte just streaming his extensive hentai collection but most people will rarely, if ever, get that high. Once you know that even on your most data intensive months you use say about 2-3 GB then you can relax knowing that you still have some headroom available.

$23 for a 32G on Amazon. You can't beat that. Not sure where your USB port is for your car but you could put that bad boy in an no one would even know it's there. http://www.amazon.co...+cruzer+fit+8gb At that price I almost ordered one just because!

I actually use iTunes for my iPod and I have no problem with it. I prefer to use my iPod for my music rather than my cell phone. The rental car I had on my last trip had the iPod hook-up and the integration was seamless. That's going to be a must-have feature on my next vehicle. iTunes and the iPod fit my music player needs perfectly. For my mobile phone I prefer Android. That fits my needs perfectly. It doesn't really fit my wife's needs. She's not going to be saving files or uploading mp3s or any of the myriad other things that folks have mentioned for why they prefer Android or iOS. Now if anyone has any unbiased experience with Windows Phone vs iOS I would love to hear it.

This thread is 4 pages now so folks may not have seen the beginning but it's really not a matter of mac-centric or not or whether iCloud is an advantage over Google. The iPhone is probably the right device for my wife and her temperament but dealing with iTunes would be a pain to her. I may wait to see what windows phones are coming but I have no experience with the windows mobile UI. Sent from my EVO LTE using Forum Runner