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I don't have the case yet. It will be released on Monday from a seller on Amazon.

 

Here is a link in-case you want to check it out. It should ship to me on Monday. I've been using the same case on my LG G3 and really like it.

 

 

http://www.amazon.com/TUDIA-Ultra-Bumper-Protective-Google/dp/B00OMMLL8C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414714118&sr=8-1&keywords=Tudia+nexus+6

 

 

 

I already have ordered this case since I have one on my Nexus 5 that has protected me from drops, and is super slim for factor with a belt clip that adds extra protection from drops as well.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OGXQ3LC/ref=ox_sc_act_image_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A209HAH4Z0MGU9

Either get a triband Spark device or go to another provider. 

 

A Note 3, by the virtue of being a single band PCS 1900 only device, is terrible in extreme urban zones like NYC where capacity is a huge issue that can only be fixed by wider carriers which are only available to Sprint on the 2500-2600 Band 41 spectrum that Sprint is actively deploying both on the old Clear sites and now on Sprints own sites. So you absolutely need a Spark triband device in practically all Sprint markets if you want a decent experience and your Note 3 is not going to do well. 

This is why I did not buy the Note 3. I bought the Nexus 5, and just today I got 27mb down load in the Bx where my friend on his note could only muster 5-6mb. Note 4 or Nexus 6 will be a better performer. Nexus 6 will have roaming on rural carrier capability, where as Note 4 will not. I hear the Note edge will have LTE A 300mb capable speed performance...truly future proof as it gets for today.

Here is the correct Sprint part number:  760492013512

 

ITEM DESCRIPTION:  SIMCARD  USIMLTEGSM4FF REMOV

 

Mine came about a week ago.  I called Sprint International 1-888-226-7212.  They will gladly help you.

 

Now, I've got the SIM, Have a Case coming next Monday along with a horizontal pouch.  I just need to get a Nexus 6 64 GB Midnight Blue into my hands!

 

Where did you get a case from so fast. I have a 3 piece iBlason case coming in 3 weeks; which is as fast as I could get it.

Well I had a great day today....I woke up at 12am looking for a Nexus 6, and I checked at 5am on my way to work, and I checked all day to find that they were sold out all day....that was some damn sale.....rofl. I guess I will get rid of the N5, and wait this out until something shows up. Last year I had my N5 by November 5th.

I went to Sprint today, and I played with the Note 4, and the iPhone 6, and 6+. The better looking phone is the Note 4 when you compare it to the iPhone 6+ in my opinion. There was no lag in the Note 4 the unit looked clean and the screen was fabulous. Although it had an aluminum side I think that the aluminum is a step in the right direction, but could have been better designed.

The Note 4 compared to my Nexus 5 is just a few millimeters wider, and mostly longer. The screen may just be one of the most vibrant on the market. Touchwiz was smooth, and fluid and I tried hard to find lag, but I found none at all. Touchwiz for the Note is loaded with features that you either love or hate, but the stylus will always set the Note above all other Phablets in my opinion.

"If" the Nexus 6 is just a bit taller than the Note 4 so be it since after holding the iPhone 6+ was more taller than it was wide the Nexus 6 will be a worthy competitor to the iPhone 6+. I think that pure Android, and rural roaming will keep me satisfied for the next two years no doubt!  If it doesn't it won't be because the I have to upgrade to receive the new rural partner signal! If the Nexus 6 were the size of the Note for it would be a bit more appealing, but remember the dual speakers and you can see the possible need to have a larger form factor to handle a larger screen and speakers. That said I think that I will enjoy watching Netflix when I take long trips, or just browse the web with the Nexus 6.

Doesn't matter until LTE roaming is actually available 

That's correct so make sure you address this thought when you purchase your next daily driver. This makes the Nexus a bit more desirable than the note. I need to have service capabilities where ever I go so having the roaming without having to buy another phone in a year if I don't have to appeals to me.

I know, I was joking. I was interested in the Note 4 as well when the rumors of the N6 were for a 5.2" screen. Now that it is phablet sized with dual front facing, I want the N6. I'm a hater of TouchWiz so my opinion is highly biased. I bought the M7 but wanted pure android and switched to the N5 but really missed the dual speakers. Glad they are making their way to the N6 and N9. Before the M7 I was saying HTC should build dual front speakers since the HTC Touch Pro 2, but I was saying that since they marketed that phone for conference calls/work purposes. Never though media... but N6 for the WIN!

Lol...Hate Touch Wiz huh....I had HTC and loved sense then I went GS3, and was not fond of Touch Wiz. but as updates rolled out I began to like it.  I owned the Moto Photon, and liked the GS3 over it. I wanted a Note but the Note 3 did not offer Spark so I went Nexus 5 when I cracked the screen of my GS3. The Note 4 was on my radar all year long, as well as the Note Edge until this showed up.

No matter what the Note is the king of phablet, but since it does not have roaming  on the rural carriers I would have to buy another phone sooner than later. The Moto addresses the screen size and roaming but in the suite department , and camera department merely shows up as a phablet, but it has dual speakers, and fast updates from Google. If the Note had roaming for the rural carriers built in I would probably get it since the Nexus is priced so high, with less front and rear camera, and true software to take advantage of the screen size as the note and it's sty;us pen does.

I'm pretty sure the Nexus 5 is still pure and android and the built-in wireless charging is not going to be deactivated once the N6 comes out...

 

Just saying...

LOL....I never implied that the Nexus 5 lost those features now did I. Since My daily driver is a Nexus 5 I would know this 1st hand. I was making a list of why it is a good phone to buy as an upgrade from a Nexus 5 and listing why I would buy it in comparison to the Note 4.

I originally wanted the Note 4 all year I waited for it's launch until this came out. The higher price makes me really inspect why I should buy this instead of a Note 4. My main reason for wanting a Note 4 was screen size, and soft ware suite. The Note is more than just a big screen...that is my reason for looking solely at it. This phone comes out and complicates things, and with a higher price at 1st glance the Note starts to look more appealing until you really dissect what the Nexus 6 is offering.

Me Too!  I want one!  I'll at least wait until some others get one to see how they perform. 

With the roaming base bands included, and screen size this slips ever so close to the Note. Pure Google, and upgrades straight from Google makes this a worthy upgrade from the Nexus 5 in may ways, 

1. roaming capable 

2. great screen size

3. battery life

4. 15 minute turbo charging

5. Pure Android....future software upgrades, 1st bug fix upgrades

6. built in wireless charging

7. dual speakers that won't sound tiny I hope

8. great dual flash

9. 3 gigs of memory

9. plenty of storage

10. Motorola's exceptional antenna signal strength

11. splash resistance

Cons

not 64 bit

13 mp camera

2x as much as the 16gig Nexus 5 for the 32Gig Version

All in all not a bad phone too bad none of the Moto X software suite is not offered in addition to make this phablet  really stand out.

Has anyone noticed that they increased the price of their contract unlimited plan to $85 a month now?  I go onto my account and select change plan (I'm currently on a 450 min/unlimited data plan).  And it takes me to a page showing that plan.

With Volte it will all be data and your plan is unlimited data for 10.00. Why give it up. read the small print of your contract before giving this up.

Not to continue to beat a dead horse, but I too have a couple of issues here. According to the shareholder theory of business the goal of a publicly traded company is to maximize value for all shareholders. The vast majority of the time what is beneficial for what you call "premium" shareholders is proportionally beneficial to any shareholder based on their ownership stake. If a company is more profitable, raises a dividend, etc every shareholder benefits; some just more so than others due to how many shares they own.

 

Secondly, I too think your notion of public vs. private is misguided. The goal of almost any private company/partnership/sole proprietorship is also to maximize profit. Much like a publicly traded company there are still ownership percentages: be it a family controlling it, employee ownership, or an outside entity, distributions of profit occur in some manner, and management incentives are still present. Irev210's point about ADM verus Cargill illustrates this. Kiewit, a large employee owned company in Omaha is notorious for having employees retire as millionaires due to having to cash in shares of the company at retirement. There really isn't the difference you are trying to make. Whether or not a company is publicly traded or not, there are owners and they want to make money.

 

I'd argue some of the things you seem to concern about are actually more prevalent in privately held companies. The reporting requirements are less than the scrutiny a publicly held company is held to. Ownership stakes tend to be more concentrated (A publicly held traded company may be lucky to have one person/institution holding more than 10% of the company). Thus from a management perspective in a privately held company there is just as much if not more temptation than to run things to benefit the owners than a publicly held corporation.

Your sales experience has little to do with publicly versus privately held companies.

I'm not a stock analyst, but I do hold a degree in Business Administration, concentrating in Finance, with an emphasis in financial analysis (basically a degree for an analyst). That said, I don't think an analyst would agree with your comments. I also think an analyst would point out that a "preferred stock holder" in finance has a completely different meaning than what you are using.

 

Preferred stock, like common stock,  is a form of equity. However it tends to have a lot more similarities to debt instruments than common stock. A preferred stockholder typically has no voting rights. To compensate this they are typically guaranteed a fixed dividend payment (hence the similarity to debt instruments like bonds) that must be paid before common stockholders receive a dividend.

 

So what you call preferred stockholders, most would call concentrated investors, corporate raiders, etc. Basically an individual or group that makes a significant investment in a company to gain ownership to benefit them. I'd contend such investors are not the norm in publicly traded companies.

 

The big problem with your argument here is particularly in many of the companies in the wireless industry is there isn't the dilution of ownership that is present in other publicly traded companies. Softbank owns 79% of Sprint. DT owns 67% of T-Mobile. While both of those companies are publicly traded, the concentrated ownerships by the "parent" companies effectively moot any outside investor from doing anything. Furthermore, there aren't any corporate raiders in the wireless market making any tirade against said corporate raiders and publicly held companies irrelevant to the topic at hand.

 

That said, I'm with you to an extent. Large concentrates owners can influence companies in such a manner that is beneficial to them and not the company/other shareholders (It isn't the norm). I think a large part of T-Mobile's current strategy over the past 12-18 months has been to prepare for DT's exit. Some of those moves aren't necessarily the best for the company in the long-term or the other shareholders.

 

But if T-Mobile were a privately held company looking to sell themselves, DT's strategy would've been the exact same. Make the company look better in the short-run to sell. That is where I fundamentally disagree with you in the public vs. private debate.

"Not to continue to beat a dead horse, but I too have a couple of issues here. According to the shareholder theory of business the goal of a publicly traded company is to maximize value for all shareholders. The vast majority of the time what is beneficial for what you call "premium" shareholders is proportionally beneficial to any shareholder based on their ownership stake. If a company is more profitable, raises a dividend, etc every shareholder benefits; some just more so than others due to how many shares they own."

After selling products for major corporations for 25 years, and in sales over 30 years I can tell you that to maximize profit they screw the consumer. They start out doing reputable things, but in the end they always try to make money by screwing unsuspecting buyers. When sales slow on a product they cut the size and charge more to maximize profits, and as a consumer you must have noticed this. One of the largest paper cup MFG let's just call it "XYZ" sells paper cups but sells to Mc Ronalds. To help Mc Ronalds make more money and to boost sales it sells cups  that are 12oz.

Mc Ronalds use to sell say 13oz cups with a dotted line  that is filled with fluid up to the dotted line and with ice it is less than 12 oz. Now the 12 oz cups with ice is less than the 12 oz that the unsuspecting consumer buys even though it is labeled 12 with ice its like 8 ounces. Ice maker MFG make ice to nest in a cup that displace more liquid. Now the consumer pays for 12 ounces gets 8 ounces or less for a glass of coke that only cost 5-6 cents for every 12 ounces. Give more ice and less fluid and maximize that 2.00 cup. 

All you can eat places give you all you can drink to fill you up because 12 ounces for .06 cents fills you up and any one can give you unlimited drinks for 2.00 when each cup cost .06.

Dell made quality machines but to maximize profits and satisfy stock holder value stopped using quality parts, and started using inferior parts to maximize share holder value now look at them. They are going private because you don't have to answer to board members and major stock holders when selling their product. When Google took a write down on R&D many people were not happy and the stock fell, but Google did what was right for the company and the stock rather than to listen to people that cry like a Carl Ichan....this is rare, ans is how it is supposed to happen as you so eloquently put it!

Sprint did the same in the late 1990's they came on like a gang buster but forgot to invest in infrastructure now they are scrambling to change for the better. Contacts by cellular companies change mostly to maximize share holder value and Verizon said this to the shareholders in one of the shareholder meetings. Their goal was "to get unlimited legacy users converted to tiered contracts by 2015 before VOlte is implemented for obvious reasons!"

Don't think for a second that big bonus is not on the minds of anyone that is in sales and in fact that is what drives many of the sales at most corporations! That drive usually conflicts with the "the shareholder theory of business the goal of a publicly traded company is to maximize value for all shareholders."

Toilet tissue used to be 4x4.5 squares now they are 3.75x3.75 and shrinking. As MFG start cheating consumers by nickle and diming the consumer to maximize profit and make larger bonus they forget that the consumer usually fights back by looking for another brand.

The drive for any company on the stock market is to return values to investors and usually the preferred investor is always 1st in mind period. The drive to earn big bonus, and return value to stock holders go hand in hand but after a certain point the consumer usually gets the shaft in the end. 

I think you just fail to realize that if a company is public or private, the goal is be profitable.  A non-public company isn't just trying to be "sort of profitable" while a publicly traded company's goal is to be "extremely profitable".

 

Verizon extracts as much as they can from their customers.  Regardless if Verizon was a privately-owned company or a publicly traded company, if Verizon could charge $1,000/month per customer, they would.  That's my only point.  The reality is, they can't, so they don't.  They charge as much as they can to get the most out of the subscriber base.

 

It's not like being a publicly traded company gets magical fairy dust incentive to charge more to get a bigger bonus...

 

For example, look at Cargill (a private company) vs. Archer Daniel (a publicly traded competitor).  The privately held company is bigger and more profitable.  If the publicly traded company's goal is to make more bonus and extract more out of customers, why is the privately held company making more profit?

I don't want to beat a dead horse, but I don't fail to realize that a company strives to make a profit. In fact I started off by saying that I am not against a company making a profit.   You fail to realized how the world works especially when it comes to stock, products and sales. I have been in sales for over 30 years, and completely understand what it means to be profitable. I have made million dollar contracts, and can tell you all about profit margin and the bottom line.

You can't make examples of anything until you truly understand the relationship between preferred stock holders, CEO compensation, bonus, profit margin, demand. You don't have a clue and if you did you would understand what I am saying. I bet a stock analyst would agree whole heartedly with my comment. 

You asked why do privately held companies make more money, but try to prove a point with out  the knowledge of why  this is. Privately held companies make more money because they don't have to answer to preferred stock holders. When public held companies  trade preferred stock holders like Carl Ichan try to dictate how and what a company should do. In order to satisfy those people companies like Dell bastardized a very good product in the name of bonus and sales. As dell began to trade openly the need for more money  to satisfy the stock holders, and to increase stock value, and profit margins arose so they started selling inferior products under their good name until the consume decided  not to buy their product line any more. "see the rise of Apple;)" Now dell is going private to try to rebuild whats left of a once powerful computer giant.

Apple and Steve Jobs are perfect examples of this since the preferred stock holders and board members kicked him out of his own company. Apple did not stock thriving until Jobs returned. I have no time to give you lessons on how the stock market, companies, bonus and compensation packages cause the rise and fall of companies!

Let's just agree to disagree respectfully.

You are wrong.  You realize that Verizon isn't a charity, right?  Regardless of being a public or private company, it's going to still attempt to be as profitable as possible, right?

 

Verizon makes a ton of money because people who subscribe to verizon feel like they offer a service(s) that competitor(s) do not.

 

It's one of the reasons why was against the merger between Sprint/T-Mobile and why I am always baffled by posts worried about competition driving down prices and how it will not make wireless carriers profitable in the US.

 

We have a lot of fat to trim in the US wireless word.

 

Step 1) Trimming wireless subsidy out of the wireless bill

Check

Step 2) Wait for T-Mobile and Sprint to finish building out their LTE networks

In progress

Step 3) Watch people realize that they can save a bundle switching while still receiving solid service

**fingers crossed that people will figure this out**

Step 4) Watch AT&T/Verizon scramble to match prices

**fingers crossed that AT&T/Verizon lobbying dollars don't stop competition**

Step 5) Watch US customers profit as prices go down

Who said anything about running a charity. The last time that I checked Verizon made over 50 GP or close to it. That's loads of money being made. I am not against anyone making money period! The structure of most companies on the stock market is structured to pay bonus, and the premium share holders. When profits are this high they attract investors and the drive to MAKE MORE BONUS DRIVES  INCENTIVES TO EXTRACT MORE OUT OF CUSTOMERS TO REACH THAT GOAL!

Am I mad at them for doing this ...no.1 As a consumer you choose to buy or not buy. You have your opinion on this and I have mine we can agree to disagree.

Every carrier is stock market based....that is the problem! The premium investor must get his piece of the pie, and then CEO's, and direct subordinates must get their bonuses. We are paying for the big bonus, and investor premiums.

Sprint and t mobile are almost the same, my brother left Sprint for t-mobile and both are bad at my house and his job the big advantage for t mobile was wifi calling

 

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How is wifi calling a big advantage for T mobile. I have been making wifi calls since 2010 with Google voice. LOL talk about misinformation. Anyone using Google voice can make wifi calls for free.,

Yeah, I don't understand the stock price for Sprint.

 

Even if you think Sprint is the worst company ever, and even if you think the company should be disbanded entirely, the stock price still seems too low.

 

As just a spectrum holding company (even if you ingnore all revenue, and all other assets) I'd expect the price to be higher than $5.50. Sprint's market cap is lower than the value of it's spectrum alone, based on the pricing seen from the recent AWS auction.

 

I feel like the stock price is more a reflection of investors reacting frantically to "bad performance", rather than having any meaningful insight into the actual value of the company.

After looking at Sprints "S" stock chart they mayl bounce and appear to be in a wave three decline on the daily. The weekly chart is showing possible support at 501. The 50 SMA is 5.05 on the weekly so lets see how this plays out. The daily chart is poised for a bounce AND IF THIS IS A 5 WAVE STRUCTURE IT CAN GO LOWER since wave three appears to be in.  Wave 4 can bounce and fall back to the last bottom of 5.36, or continue lower. Again the weekly 50 SMA is 5.05. Since the 2.10 bottom the stock went to 11.47, and has since retrace 61.8%. This s just a correction in my opinion when the bottom is in be ready to buy. You all know what the inside scoop is don't  be fooled

I am going to make a chart analysis and if anyone that would like to read and learn LMK!

Since receiving 4.4.4 my phone seems to freeze every now and then.Am I the only one that has this happen. 

Band 41 live in Parkchester of the Bronx near Applebees in the circle I got 32mb down 15mb up! Since 4.4 update my phone seems to freeze every now and then.

 Pelham Bay Park today sent me 23mbs , and Boston Road and  Baychester  ave sent me 36mbs down load speeds.

I guess i am not sure what you are stating.

 

1.Roaming (voice and data) are checked on her N5 just as it is on my gs3. (should it not be?)

2. the N5 will flop back and forth between roaming/weak signal/no signal at all, in fringe area- all the while the gs3 stays with a decent roaming signal.

3. Even when the N5 shows roaming, calls to her phone won't go through.

4. Roaming network is set to automatic.

5. Network mode, as i stated before, always reverts back to global.

Set the cellular signal  to 3G and you may get better signal. When set to LTE or global it keeps cycling in weak signal areas.

Connected to B41 in cross county mall in yonkers, speeds were between 10-20mb sec. Looks like older backhaul.

WOW....i WAS IN THAT AREA TODAY AND NEVER CHECKED.....LOL

You will get it eventually....didnt go out to everyone at the same time.

I got one a few days ago....seems like basic info nothing has changed service was from my point of view

I also have a Google Play Nexus 5 32 GB activated on Sprint, and it looks like Sprint DOES know I have a Nexus 5 since I just got this email:

nex5sprint.png

 

I went to my MySprint account, and it still seems to not know what my device is.

 

So it does look like Sprint knows I have a Nexus 5... Somewhere. It seems like their databases are just not very well managed.

I have the N5 showing up in my account as well.

I occasionally connect to HD voice calls on my nexus 5, its pretty spectacular.

Well we both have 2 things in common a Naxus 5, and the Bx. I used to go to the Disco Fever over off Jerome and 167 backi n the day. In my opinion the birth place of Hip Hop. Grandmaster Flash Melly Mel and the likes use to go there.

Is HD voice active  in NYC?

I'm near grand concourse and tremont, I can make calls without issues, 1x800 as usual.

Lucky you rofl....I can call myself or use Goolge Voiceby wifi....I must say that Google Voice by wifi is pretty clear. I can't imagine VOIP costing so damn much when WI internet is about what VOIP will be.