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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

is there a legend to the colors?

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, FDD (frequency division duplex) and TDD (time division duplex), FDD is favored by GSM operators (such as Verizon and AT&T), TDD is what Clearwire is using if I am not mistaken, yet Sprint is also going for a FDD setup. That right there confuses me, but still, I feel the article is interesting none-the-less.

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.

Would it be fair to say that there is already a completed Live LTE area (Hammond, Indiana as per the article). If so why is it not listed on the NV running list? or am I reading it incorrectly?

I still think that Sprint will release the Galaxy Note around the end of May/June only because historically for the last few years (5 to be exact) the months in which Sprint deploys phones has been May/June and Sept/Oct. Although I wouldn't doubt April would be a good month to deploy it. But as mentioned above, it may cut into the Nexus profits, so I figure April for Nexus and May/June for Note. This should also fall in line with the 1st round of Network Vision being up and running in some areas (as per s4gru)

Been a customer of Sprint since March 31 2000. TS

Well I for one have not had any problems with customer service. In fact if memory serves me right, I only had two bad occurring with Sprint in the 11 years with them. One a billing error and the other a activation snafu that took hours and that was eons ago. Since then it was smooth service. TS

As much as I love my Motorola Photon 4G, I feel it may be my last one. I really miss the ability to install custom roms without hassle like I did with HTC EVO. Its a shame because I feel the Photon is one of the best devices I've had with Sprint. As for Motorola changing its stance on bootloaders. I do not see it even with Google. Google has mentioned numerous times that Moto will be a separate run entity and not dictated by Google. The only wrinkle in that plan would be the massive amount of set top devices (cable boxes, etc) that Motorola makes. This would fall in line with both Google TV as well as Google broadband that is in being tested in Kansas City and eventually spread country wide. TS

Got the invite and decided to Join. Known elsewhere as twospirits, but for some reason signed up as davianny. (although I thought it was twospirits) Admin over at tabletroms, mod over at androidforums and everywhere else as the one that doesn't shut up. lol Work for the city of NY as a programmer. Been with Sprint for over 11 years, currently with (Sprint wise) the Motorola Photon, and Hero, (non-Sprint) Notion Ink Adam, Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet, and Galaxy Tab. I like what I see here and hope to contribute as best as I can. TS

Much like what member legion125 mentioned Sprint only throttles the data hogs violating roaming agreements. Eventually they just might to match the others but I figure we still have about 3 years before that decision is made.

I read somewhere that stated Sprint will be ushering LTE on the current Wimax cities throughout 2012 and they are doing it rather quickly. But damn if I can't find that article.

Wheres the back, its suppose to have a white back?