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For those that don't know what that is (like me) until now, this thread explains it.

TS

@ S4GRU

Good to know, I'll make a sponsor contribution in the morning.Typing fast and fat finger syndrome be damned. lol

@ pyroscott

Totally agree with what you are saying. Except for one thing. The manufacturers themselves are the ones that started this trend, the customers just took the animal by the horns and went further by wanting the updates (be it bug fixes or OS versions) on devices that hardware wise, can run the OS upgrade and or enhancements.

As for the devices themselves, well I believe that instead of spitting out a new device every few weeks (I'm looking at you Samsung Galaxy x, y and z) I think it would benefit the community at whole to just make one or two new devices per carrier every year that wouldn't contribute to the boat load of devices that have different hardware software requirements that can lead to fragmentation. But regardless of competing with the rotten apple, there are so many competing among themselves that lead to this problem.

As for xda, lol I know the feeling. But that sentiment goes both ways over there. You have badly behaved members that request everything under the sun that make it bad for those that are patiently waiting for the devs to do their excellent work. Then you also have some devs (and staff members I might add) that also contribute to the problem by acting like immature kids themselves too. It may be a development site by developers, but if you open the gates for all to see, then expect stuff like that to happen. Otherwise close the site off to all and just make it a paid access site for developers by developers. But I doubt that will ever happen because their egos will be crushed and bottom line is alot of them love the huge amount of non devs following them.

Sorry for the back to back post, but I can't edit the previous post for some reason.

Speaking of it happening to nexus devices, just read this little rant.

This site makes me sick to my stomach. :puke: Now the iPad is classified as a TV,

Anyway the article about the US patent showcasing / doing an exhibit on Apple is here.

Just once I'd like to see a patent denied.....just once

 

But i think that's the only one.

TS

So True

It saddens me that lately every article i read on Sprint is about Hesse being the bad guy for Sprints failures when in fact it takes two (or more) to tango. i do believe the board has to approve each and every decision that would affect the company, Nextel, Clearwire, T-Mobile, Metro PCS, LightSquare, Apple iPhone, etc etc It seems they want the guy out the door yesterday, but i fail to see anyone come up with a better plan.

I do get the feeling that once Hesse is forced out that unlimited is gone by way of the dodo. And that is one benefit that Sprint has over others that really keeps the customers staying and or coming in.

 

Only thing i dislike is the time Sprint takes to push updates to devices. The time they add on for their own testing is too long IMHO. Hence you see the GS2 oversease is getting its update already....sprint should not be waiting much longer after that is done and in reality should be working closer with OEMs to shorten the process...but that in itself is another ball of wax and not 100% on Hesse either...

case in point. The Motorola Photon, it came out June 30th last year. Google 4.O ICS was announced around May 10th and officially released on Oct 19 to the manufacturers. I would assume that Motorola has a few more developers on staff than Sprint would, but even if they didn't it should take that long to adapt the ICS code onto their phones. (Mind you this is before the bloatware of Sprint). According to their own ICS update page it still shows most of their phones (including the Photon) as in Development and with a possible release sometime in 3rd Quarter 2012. This will place it over a year after the phone was released. This is by the way before actual testing by both Motorola and Sprint, and before Sprint even gets it to place their own boatware on it.

This is why I can't blame Sprint totally for holding up updates and rather blame the manufacturers. It's true that Sprint may add to the time-frame for testing and adding other stuff to it, but the majority is the manufacturers fault in my opinion. it is also why so many root and unlock their phones and rely on 3rd party developers for roms, add-ons and updates.

BTW, this also applies to bloat-free devices like the Nexus as well. Samsung also takes a long arse time.

TS

As Bond would say, Never Say Never.

Although I do agree from all reports it does look like 99% no more WiMax radios, But its that 1% that is nice to think about.

personally, I do not see why it would be so bad. It would keep those customers that are about to end their contract and are in a Wimax area not getting LTE to still stay and renew with Sprint.

There was a article somewhere that showed the US Patent office having a major display exhibition on Apple. Adds more fuel to the fire of people that claim the US patent office is bias. In one of the exhibits it showed Apple patenting a staircase.

TS

It's great when your school's internet crawls at an embarrassing 6mbps, tries to monitor you like the Chinese Golden Shield, and drops the connection completely on a daily basis.

TS

Google Search

As a Puerto Rican myself, I was taken back by the density info and had to look it up myself knowing that here in NYC Manhattan/Rooselvelt/Long Island are islands with a big density value index. But as i was going through the numerous links, census, wikipedia, etc, it all depends on how you classify the information. Different results whether by island, territory, commonwealth, island nation, by square mile etc, results change at each and every turn. So it's all a matter of perspective and how the data is classified.

As for Puerto Rico, it is surprising that with so many mountain ranges that there is any coverage at all. lol

I say Sprint should just hook up to the Arecibo Observatory and beam out the signal, that should cover the whole island in one swoop.

Regardless of PR, Delaware, Michigan, Albuquerque, the one thing that boggles my mind is seeing that big stretch of white patch on the maps showing no towers at all in the Montana, N/S Dakota areas.

TS

hmmm can't edit my previous post. Is it me or is that how the forum is? oh well, I'll do it here.

Picture it, 2000 Sicily, ummm I mean NYC

I have no recollection as to why I chose Sprint back then, but I did. They didn't have much of a selection but i ended up with the.. 2000 Touchpoint 100. It was okay, but I thought it was too big at the time.

2000 LG Touchpoint 1100 by end of the year got tired of the 100 and as luch would have it it fell and broke, changed to the LG. I like the flip design, but eventually got tired of its bulky feel.

2002 Switch to Samsung N400 Love the Star trek flip design and bigger screen. Also had more contacts.

2005 Samsung A920, loved the rocker, more contacts and the camera. (last time I stayed on contract)

2006 Samsung M610, couldn't resist the thinner design

2007 HTC Touch, the year I started to follow phones and this one was in my sights from day 1 of rumorville. Simply loved the touch screen, first Windows mobile phone and I loved it and its stylus, but man did it get scratched.

2008 HTC Diamond, I really like it. Bigger screen, updated OS, but got laggy after a while

2009 HTC Hero, For the past year was learning about Android and seeing how T-Mobile got the coolest phones. Finally came one on Sprint that at the time was impressive. Bit of a learning curve coming from WinMo. First learned of rooting with this guy. Still have it on my second line as a backup. Loved Sense.

2010 HTC EVo 4G Ah the King of phones. Big yet thin, fast, hacked like no other, the awesome kickstand. Would have kept it as my second line if i didn't get a good deal trading it in.

2011 Motorola Photon, Finally a world android phone, plus it has the kickstand that the upgraded EVO series left out. Unique design, robust. Blur was okay, but I replaced the home screens. Hate Moto's bootloader policy, (and reason I won't go with Moto again regardless as much as i need a world phone.) Also hate that after one year updates come slowly. ICS in June /July, really Moto, really.

TS

Damn, i searched and didnt see a similar thread. I guess its ok to merge them together

Alright folks, as the title states, List all your Sprint phones that you have ever owned/currently have.




Except for the last one which isn't on Sprint (yet), those are the ones I've had.

TS

^ that is true.

For my roms, hmmm so many so little time lol

For the Sprint Hero and EVO, a toss up between AndroidForums (AF) and xda.

For Motorola Photon, xda (since they have a more extensive webtop/ubuntu discussion.

For Notion Ink Adam, and Transformer, its tabletroms.com

For Thinkpad Tablet, mostly thinkpadtabletforums and sometimes xda also Lenovo.com believe it or not.

Once I get my Galaxy Note, it will be between xda, AF, GalaxyNoteForums.org, in no particular order.

hmmm, this makes me think of another thread to start.

TS

As much as I would like for Sprint to offer the note yesterday, April 15, Tax day lol may not be right. The Galaxy Note is one heck of a device, popular in Europe and as per AT&T, selling quite nicely. Plus, Samsung is promoting the heck of it. So it would be safe to say that for the device to be sold by Sprint without any fanfare wouldn't make sense. I still think CTIA is where the device will most likely be announced. Just hope it comes with more built in storage. More storage + Sprint unlimited plans = A+. But if I am wrong on the dates or the storage, that's okay, so long as we get it.

Speaking of Qualcomm, it seems to support both FDD and TDD LTE. in this article about China delaying 4g LTE and how it impacts Sprint and Clearwire, it states that of the two types of LTE,

Well i am only going by what i read thus the question for the experts here. I figure you guys know the LTE system much better.

These are the links where its been mentioned that AT&T went with Snapdragon instead of Exynos due to it not working well with their LTE network.

phandroid

"The AT&T version uses a dual-core Snapdragon for better 4G LTE capabilities where the international version uses Samsung's dual-core Exynos but features no compatbility with LTE."

phonedog

"The Galaxy Note comes to the States with a 1.5 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor in place of Samsung's Exynos chip (due to it not supporting LTE technology). "

engadget

"We were a bit concerned when we learned that the AT&T Galaxy Note would not be rolling with Samsung's own 1.4GHz Exynos processor and would instead have a 1.5GHz Snapdragon chip inside. The clock speed may be higher but the performance is indeed lower. "

In other forums comments such as this was made...

AT&T forum

"Main advantage of the Qualcomm platform compared to Exynos platform is faster network data transfer, Qualcomm chipset allows network downloads up to incredibly 42 Mbps while Exynos platforms allows half of that. On the other side, Exynos has GPU advantage, Adreno 220 GPU isn’t a match for the Mali 400MP GPU.

So Qualcomm has stronger CPU, clocked at 1.5 GHZ with chipset that offers faster 42 Mbps network downloads, on the other side it has slower GPU but it will still run every game smooth and little if any visible lag compared to the International version. "

androidspin

The processor switch probably has something to do with LTE/GSM. There's only been a little bit of coverage about it. but apparently the Samsung Exynos processor doesn't play nice with LTE/GSM, especially the higher-speed variatns of GSM. That's why T-Mobile's Galaxy S II has a Sanpdragon processor, while Sprint has the Exynos.

So I don't know, even MobileTechReview made a mention of it in their video. But like i said I wanted to pass the question to you guys which I think would know more about it.

There have been numerous sites that state the reason why AT&T went with a 1.5 Ghz Snapdragon S3 Qualcomm MSM8660 processor in the Galaxy Note instead of the dual core 1.4Ghz Exynos 4210 processor found in the International version is because their LTE does not work well with it.

So two questions...

1-Why doesn't the Exynos processor work well with LTE (and by LTE I am referring to both the AT&T/Verizon)

2-Would the Sprint LTE have the same issue with Exynos processors?

Reason I ask is because Sprint is suppose to get the Galaxy Note, (as per rumored highly reliable) sources have mentioned. But no one would knows what the internal components would be. If Sprint were to get the European processor which by all test results is better than the US version, I feel it would have an advantage over AT&T and Verizon. Thus bringing in more customers.

I'm hoping Sprint mentions something about the Note in CTIA in May.

^ lmao

Granted, be it marketing or hype, Apple has a big following, but what is it with these companies having problems naming their products. The New iPad? seriously? so what happens next year, The Newer iPad? Same with Samsung, Galaxy this, Galaxy that.

The display may be nice and all but the human eye can't tell the difference at that small size screen. As for having it on Sprint. prff, i rather have them spend the money improving the network than throwing it at Apple. Get better devices like the Asus Transformer prime, Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, The Asus Nexus Play, a Windows Tablet, etc etc

Its good to know that Long Island is near the top of the secondary markets.