Why should we get a sprint lte phone (next cycle) , when they are two years out from being turned on. Yes I know they are testing in some town with 10 residents (which none of them are probably sprint customers). I'm still waiting for 4G.
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Why should we get a sprint lte phone (next cycle) , when they are two years out from being turned on. Yes I know they are testing in some town with 10 residents (which none of them are probably sprint customers). I'm still waiting for 4G.
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Maybe a better question...how about u just don't get it until u get 4G?
Sorry...don't wanna sound like a sh*ta** but yea...lol
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Better hardware overall and all phones offerings are going to be 4G. So... Upgrade your phone or don't.
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Personally I'm just buying a phone because I like it. I've had both evo 4g EVO 3d and both epics and am.still without 4g. I have got this far without its just a bonus to me if I ever do recieve lte. It's still the same price and my WiFi at home is better than 4g anyway. If you have stuck around this long no reason to jump ship now your halfway through the changeover
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i work from home and am on wifi like 95% of my time, i do go to wimax areas every once in a while but but i can live without that. im buying it because 4.3" is too small for me lol
I don't use 4G as it is now so I could care less
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It's hardware is far superior to any phone that is out or will be out for a while.
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It's hardware is far superior to any phone that is out or will be out for a while.
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Agreed and one of the reasons I got it. Would just like to be on the upside of phone tech for once. Never thought I would be jealous of AT & T.
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Agreed and one of the reasons I got it. Would just like to be on the upside of phone tech for once. Never thought I would be jealous of AT & T.
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Lol I may end up getting it when I am outta contract. Kinda wanna see what people think of it.. I don't care for the LTE or 4G just the specs are pretty nice no 3D which makes me happy just want my 8MP back so I can play with CM and other sense less builds.
The only reason I will eventually move to LTE (I'm already currently in a WiMAX area) is for the improved speeds and the lower frequencies. Lower frequency radio waves will better penetrate thick walls (like concrete) and will reduce how much battery it uses. Therefore, LTE is overall more stable than WiMAX technology.
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Nobody is forcing you to stay with Sprint. If you want 4g LTE now, switch to Verizon.
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Nobody is forcing you to stay with Sprint. If you want 4g LTE now, switch to Verizon.
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Lol he already bought one Anyway's think he is just asking a general question about what people think about it...
Verizon plans and phones are over priced Good service and everything else..
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The only reason I will eventually move to LTE (I'm already currently in a WiMAX area) is for the improved speeds and the lower frequencies. Lower frequency radio waves will better penetrate thick walls (like concrete) and will reduce how much battery it uses. Therefore, LTE is overall more stable than WiMAX technology.
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The big issue I see is a big price jump once lte is turned on. There is some serious traffic control that lte has that wimax doesn't. When they can truly see what being used and the rate of consumption, bye bye unlimited.
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The big issue I see is a big price jump once lte is turned on. There is some serious traffic control that lte has that wimax doesn't. When they can truly see what being used and the rate of consumption, bye bye unlimited.
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though I do think there will be a day when unlimited will be no more, i don't think it will be anytime soon, for 2 reason, 1 the premium data fee ($10) we all pay according to dan hasse is the reason we don't have tier data plans already, so if they switched they can't charge that anymore and 2 sprint uses it too much to advertise with, and is a reason so many of the customers are staying... if they lose that they will lose A LOT of customers...
i never use 4g and i can get it almost all most all the time.. i use 3g cause its fast enough for me.. when i have used 4g in the past it just drains my battery to quick.. its crazy cause some people would love to get 4g and i have it and could care less.. lol i wish i could give it away!!!! to someone that would use it.. u kno..
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i never use 4g and i can get it almost all most all the time.. i use 3g cause its fast enough for me.. when i have used 4g in the past it just drains my battery to quick.. its crazy cause some people would love to get 4g and i have it and could care less.. lol i wish i could give it away!!!! to someone that would use it.. u kno..
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My town doesnt have any 4g towers. What kind off BS is that? Hah
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My town doesnt have any 4g towers. What kind off BS is that? Hah
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I only get to use it if I go to Atlanta or I go up north to Michigan
I am in no hurry to upgrade. I live in a small city about an hour north of Atlanta. My little city of 30k has WiMax and is set to get LTE the first round, but I get 4G inside my apartment and downtown. While I don't get LTE speeds, I do get around 7-8mb. And I'm okay with that till the next round of LTE phones come out. WiMax isn't going anywhere anytime soon for those of us that have it.
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I only get to use it if I go to Atlanta or I go up north to Michigan
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I'm sorry that's the case. As a frequent traveler I am in almost always in Wimax coverage and have been very satisfied for the most part. However, thinking I'm hot s*?t pulling down 10mgbs on my couch always gets me into trouble as my buddy ( who is smartphone illiterate) pulls down 30 on his razr max. Yea at those speeds its basically just a pi$$ingcontest, but with almost 24 months on the competition you have to feel dissapointed in the way Wimax was.handled.
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Hello. I've seen it mentioned, and wouldn't have believed it if I didn't experience it. FYI, this isn't a *****ing thread, I am just curios WHY 3G speeds on the 3VO are so much slower than what I had from the OG Evo. Is this something that will, or even CAN be addressed by a radio update?
Thanks for the input!
From my personal experience, in the same location I have gone from speeds of 300kbps to a meg a second, down to >100kbps with a top of 300kbps. I tried the "Increase 3G speed trick," and still in the same speed range.
UPDATE: I had Sprint reprovision my device, and was told to do a battery pull, turn on and let the system settle, and voila. Still pulling 300kpbs tho.
If anything, this can be fixed through a radio update. Just give it time. I know it is unfortunate. Have you bothered with the MSL tweak that is in the development section?
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If anything, this can be fixed through a radio update. Just give it time. I know it is unfortunate. Have you bothered with the MSL tweak that is in the development section?
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Yes, didn't see any difference unfortunately. I just hope it is software limitations and not hardware... I cant imagine the Evo and 3Vo have that much of a different set up?
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Yes, didn't see any difference unfortunately. I just hope it is software limitations and not hardware... I cant imagine the Evo and 3Vo have that much of a different set up?
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I'm going to say it has to be radio related. Time will tell I suppose. I am sorry that I was not much help.
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My 3g is faster with 3vo than my ogEvo
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My 3g is faster with 3vo than my ogEvo
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Well snap, that is a first from what I have read. What type of speeds do you get on the 3vo now? Done the MSL 0's trick?
LOL'ed at your sig BTW.
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My 3g is faster with 3vo than my ogEvo
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My 3G speeds are a little bit faster, but they still suck. Where I live, my speeds are abysmal. This applies with any Sprint phone. I remember when my speeds rocked, but that was at the beginning of the release of the Evo 4G. It just degraded throughout time.
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My 3G speeds are a little bit faster, but they still suck. Where I live, my speeds are abysmal. This applies with any Sprint phone. I remember when my speeds rocked, but that was at the beginning of the release of the Evo 4G. It just degraded throughout time.
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Yeah, I live in the sticks, so I feel ya... lol
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Yeah, I live in the sticks, so I feel ya... lol
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It truly does suck. Well when I'm not near my WiFi.
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I thought it was just my 3D at first, but now I see that every sprint phone my family has have been extremely slow. My sister called me yesterday asking how to turn on the 3g on her Samsung, but sadly it was already on. Sprint can't keep up with all the new subscribers.
3G on Sprint compared to Verizon sucks. I called sprint and told them about it. I suggest that others do the same. I'd didn't ***** at them I just told them I have a Xoom and a EVO3D and the Xoom 3G absolutely blows away Sprint. I told them its embarrassment. Unlimited data? Ya at 56k they can give you all the unlimited data they want.
Mine have increased from OG EVO to this without the msl trick. Weird.
Edit: update on speeds. Tested three times, all above 1.40 mbps. Never got that on og evo.
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Funny thing, I just saw sprint's new commercial about unlimited data. They rank on verizon and att for their tiered data, then they rank on tmobile for thier throttling data after 5gb, and they finally they say how fast their data is! I laughed my ass off. I bet tmobile's throttled data is faster that my 3G data with full bars. I'm not in a 4G area so I can't comment on that, I'm sure it's fast but sprint's 3G data in my area is super slow during peak hours. I average 100kbs peak, about 700kbs to 1mb super early in the morning or super late in the evening. Basically without a wifi connection its unusable during peak hours.
no difference between the evo and 3d for me same old 56k **** speeds.
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Funny thing, I just saw sprint's new commercial about unlimited data. They rank on verizon and att for their tiered data, then they rank on tmobile for thier throttling data after 5gb, and they finally they say how fast their data is! I laughed my ass off. I bet tmobile's throttled data is faster that my 3G data with full bars. I'm not in a 4G area so I can't comment on that, I'm sure it's fast but sprint's 3G data in my area is super slow during peak hours. I average 100kbs peak, about 700kbs to 1mb super early in the morning or super late in the evening. Basically without a wifi connection its unusable during peak hours.
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Thats what I told the lady from sprint was that if you don't have a WiFi connection then data was pretty much useless. What got me was I have all my music on the Google cloud. So I sync my Xooms bluetooth with my car. On the way to work it played perfect never skipped and I could change tracks without issue. So I thought well let me try it with my EVO. Well what a disaster it wouldn't play a single track let alone change tracks. Completely worthless without WiFi.
Odd that some see no difference, and some better and some worse... I put the OG Evo back on to make sure, and I'm getting approximately 3 times the network speed.
Does anyone know why this could be? I see fewer bars... But I didn't think to play with open signal maps. Might have to tinker with that when I get off.
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It truly does suck. Well when I'm not near my WiFi.
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I work outside, so no wifi for me.
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For the ones that have good data on OG EVO, but not on the 3D, a reprovision of the phone should help you out. If you have bad speeds on both devices then reprovisioning won't do anything as you're probably in a bad reception area.
Just left tmobile for sprint and I can definitely say my throttled data was faster than sprints 3G.
It's beyond annoying. I live in Orlando, and somehow I find myself constantly roaming in high tourism areas. Actually, I'm roaming the minute I go into my bedroom.
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Mine just picked up speed today! The sprint store tech did a speedtest and it was in the 100kb range. He reprovisioned the phone to reactivate on the network nd my speeds are now as good or better than original evo 500kb average. I dont think a radio update would do much good. Sprint needs to hop on the Rev B evdo or start rolling out those dual 3g/4g towers sooner than expected! They are dropping all these hot phones w/out expanding the network. Starting to sound like att.
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Our Verizon bill is ridiculous, and I might be switching to Sprint soon. If so, this is definitely the phone I want. What is this phone like compared to my rezound in terms of battery life, network speed, and performance?
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-Network Speed (For now)
+With Everything else
Probably the shortest & best way to describe that experience.
your speed is going to be heavily dependent on your location. Ive never used a rezound so I don't know what the difference will be, but the evo is a nice phone. Some minor annoyances, but if you can find a phone that doesn't have some let me know.
Going from a Rezound to an EVO 4G LTE you will experience:
-Much better, bigger screen
-Much faster
-Much better battery life
-Much thinner
-Much better camera
-Sense 4
-Terrible network speeds for a little while (unless you live in KC etc)
It's better in every way, besides the fact that Verizon is superior to Sprint in terms of service.
I have both phones. As stated network speed on Verizon is sick. And the rezound has great screen resolution but the evo is better in pretty much every way. Even the screen is better.the rezound feels like a brick In my hand. The battery life on the rezound is horrible.
If you can wait for the better network then get the evo
I love my shiny 4g iPhone!
You can always give sprint a 14day try to see how speeds are and what not. nd depending on your situation like if u have WiFi at work and home it may not matter to much about speeds.
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You can always give sprint a 14day try to see how speeds are and what not. nd depending on your situation like if u have WiFi at work and home it may not matter to much about speeds.
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And keep in mind you can just use the temp number sprint gives you for a week or so and then later port your number over from Verizon
It's rather silly to compare these two phones. I would ask any Sprint customers you know if they're pleased with their service. Also, if you don't qualify for a discount in any other way, get an account as a local credit union. I get 23% off on my bill for being part of a credit union.
This phone is godly. That is all
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If you get lte you'll definitely regret it sprint 3G is slower then Verizon and most parts of the US the bill will come down tho, when I had Verizon and the amount of minutes I used to pay 170+ for two lines, it was unlimited data, sprint 3G wasn't as bad so I moved with my wife and we were paying 129$ at month big difference, if Tmobile had the evo I think it will be better at least till LTE rolls out I get up to 12-16 mbps on Tmobile but they do have some dead spots, att and Verizon have the next networks but they charged too much IMO, other then that the evo lte is my favorite phone I am getting the galaxy s 3 on Tmobile and most likely keeping my evo till their network could at least hit 5mbps cause I like that phone the much
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You lose 720p slow motion, for what it's worth... haha.
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You lose 720p slow motion, for what it's worth... haha.
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Lmao
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Just remember boys and girls, if you know what you are doing, you can run your evo lte on verizon 3g with unlimited data and sprint pricing
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Just remember boys and girls, if you know what you are doing, you can run your evo lte on verizon 3g with unlimited data and sprint pricing
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Yeah but their 3g ain't the mug better, their LTE would be amazing to do lol
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Just switched back to Sprint from Verizon on Launch day. EVO is awesome of course. I Luke it much better than the rrzound
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Yeah but their 3g ain't the mug better, their LTE would be amazing to do lol
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Well I'm not going to disagree with you because there are too many variables, but for me I get about 2mbps on verizon compared to my 200Kbps on sprint... so yeah, a lot better.
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Well I'm not going to disagree with you because there are too many variables, but for me I get about 2mbps on verizon compared to my 200Kbps on sprint... so yeah, a lot better.
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I guess it depends on where you located Verizon 3G in Las Vegas never impressed me as much as their 4g did but the thunderbolt sucked at the moment so I had to give it up after few months
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Just switched back to Sprint from Verizon on Launch day. EVO is awesome of course. I Luke it much better than the rrzound
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Hey me too . It's awesome
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Nevermind I didn't think it was that easy
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So following in VZW footsteps, At&t now has shared data plans as well.
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So following in VZW footsteps, At&t now has shared data plans as well.
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I don't think this really deserved its own thread... There is an off topic thread for a reason.
Not trying to be an ass or anything also, I'm sure most of us already knew this
Yep, difference is that they allow you to upgrade and keep your grandfathered plans (at least for now).
Just saw the commercial.
Well, looks like ill be going to sprint when my contract is over...
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Well, looks like ill be going to sprint when my contract is over...
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Idk man. The unlimited 4G at T-Mobile looks nice when mine's up. Although, I'm trying to be hopeful that it will somehow encourage Verizon to rethink their stance because in terms of coverage in my area, no one comes close.
If you want to keep your unlimited plan just don't upgrade through Verizon. You can usually buy the newer phones on their networks for around $200 - $300 on eBay, swappa, craigslist, or amazon. Just pick up whatever phone you want and walk into Verizon and request a sim for the phone or have then program it.
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Idk man. The unlimited 4G at T-Mobile looks nice when mine's up. Although, I'm trying to be hopeful that it will somehow encourage Verizon to rethink their stance because in terms of coverage in my area, no one comes close.
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I thought about that to but doesn't T-Mobile throttle you after like 500mb though and force you on 3g or 2g for the remainder of the month? I think sprint is the only one that won't cut you off. For me if Verizon forces me off unlimited I think I'll stay cause nobody else has as good of service but sprint might be tempting.
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I thought about that to but doesn't T-Mobile throttle you after like 500mb though and force you on 3g or 2g for the remainder of the month? I think sprint is the only one that won't cut you off. For me if Verizon forces me off unlimited I think I'll stay cause nobody else has as good of service but sprint might be tempting.
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The new plan going live on the 5th is being advertised as truly unlimited. No caps or throttling:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/21/t-mobile-leak-suggests-truly-unlimited-4g-data-add-on-launchin/
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I thought about that to but doesn't T-Mobile throttle you after like 500mb though and force you on 3g or 2g for the remainder of the month? I think sprint is the only one that won't cut you off. For me if Verizon forces me off unlimited I think I'll stay cause nobody else has as good of service but sprint might be tempting.
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Sprint can't throttle you because if they slowed it down any more, it wouldnt even load the play store. It already took long enough to do that when I had sprint. I loved sprints customer service but their data network is awful, not to mention it will take them forever to roll out 4g. Verizon might cost more per month but it's worth it. Sprint has unlimited because their 3g is so slow you can't use a lot of data and their WiMAX is almost nonexistent unless you live in huge cities. Just warning you guys.
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Sprint can't throttle you because if they slowed it down any more, it wouldnt even load the play store. It already took long enough to do that when I had sprint. I loved sprints customer service but their data network is awful, not to mention it will take them forever to roll out 4g. Verizon might cost more per month but it's worth it. Sprint has unlimited because their 3g is so slow you can't use a lot of data and their WiMAX is almost nonexistent unless you live in huge cities. Just warning you guys.
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Stamp. So damn true about Sprint... Verizon is second worst on 3g though, to be fair. GSM has always trumped CDMA in the 3g department in my experience.
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The new plan going live on the 5th is being advertised as truly unlimited. No caps or throttling:
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Yea looks good but their 4g isn't that good or as fast as lte and they won't have lte for a while and their service isn't great especially in my area. But in the next 5 years when everyone has lte it will be good to see them really compete for customers.
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Bonus is you can take the Rezound over to Tmo. They always have better android phones than vzw half the time anyway.
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I don't think this really deserved its own thread... There is an off topic thread for a reason.
Not trying to be an ass or anything also, I'm sure most of us already knew this
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Is this not the general discussion board? Is this not a general discussion? For ****s sake...
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Is this not the general discussion board? Is this not a general discussion? For ****s sake...
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Yea looks good but their 4g isn't that good or as fast as lte and they won't have lte for a while and their service isn't great especially in my area. But in the next 5 years when everyone has lte it will be good to see them really compete for customers.
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Yeah they are behind. I have a long time on my contract though, so who knows by then.
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Stamp. So damn true about Sprint... Verizon is second worst on 3g though, to be fair. GSM has always trumped CDMA in the 3g department in my experience.
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I never had a phone on att that worked worth a damn (iPhone back when I didn't know how truely evil apple was) on 3g but I have seen others on att do well on 3g. But 3g works well for me on Verizon. I use it all the time since it doesn't hog battery like 4g which is great in my area. But when I'm running a speestest on 3g with my buddy and his HTC evo 3d next to me and I pull almost 2.0mbps down and 1 up and he barely pulls a .5 down and .1 up with his 400ms ping, Verizon's 3g is the **** lol. But you are right att 3g is better, their 4g is garbage through. Everyone i know barely pulls 7-8 down on att 4g while I'm flying by them at 40mbps while streaming Pandora in the background
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Yea I mean if atts service didn't literally make me mad, I would still use them just for the phones.. Verizon's is the only one I've had that I actually notice how good it is. The phones and the lock down aren't that great that ¦~\ but service is first and foremost. Plus on LTE I've never had lower than 11 down and 2 up (its usually over 15 and under 40 up, with over 5 down) and I've been across states down south in 4G areas... ATT and TMO and Sprint don't compare in places Ive been down here. Plus my 3G speeds are as fast and their 4G pretty often and that's unacceptable to me.
Pitty there isn't unlimited anymore and some gooder phones lulz
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Pitty there isn't unlimited anymore and some gooder phones lulz
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We can thank the bastards that have usenet accounts and use 50-100+gb per month for that one. It really is useless, they probably just have one for the sole purpose of racking up as much data as possible.
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We can thank the bastards that have usenet accounts and use 50-100+gb per month for that one. It really is useless, they probably just have one for the sole purpose of racking up as much data as possible.
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I don't really think that's the reason... But I'm sure they considered that as well... I think it's because they own so much spectrum that they can increase the price of whatever they want and people will pay for it... Plus ATT started the teird data garbage. Verizon followed a year later... Then Verizon started the share plan garbage.. now ATT has followed that. It's all about money. Data used to be a lot cheaper once upon a time, but not as good persay.. Personally I think they should still have unlimited 4G and capped 3G or vice versa... Idk though... Meh it is what it is.
If you do this, are the ESNs on the phones marked as bad? I'm guessing they are... but curious. Sprint is giving me the biggest run around ever with constant poor service, dropped calls, slow data, etc... I'm in a metro area as well, it's ridiculous.
I feel your pain. Same story here. I'm also interested in how this works, haha.
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Count me in.. I'm ready to go to Big Red and get my wallet raped(I'm not being sarcastic)
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Count me in..can't wait to run very fast from sprint...worst service..I know people with pay and go get more reliable service..I'm on my 6th LTE and this one is bad as well
How does one roam excessive?
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Lol u guys enjoy leaving. By end of next year everyone will have fast speeds and great top notch network as their build out will be near complete for initial phase...
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Lol u guys enjoy leaving. By end of next year everyone will have fast speeds and great top notch network as their build out will be near complete for initial phase...
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I'd go month to month and buy a phone off contract with Verizon . But I don't have faith in this network vision of theirs. Sure it's state of the art. But it's also Sprint and not one tower is complete yet in Florida according to S4GRU..But I'd come back if it's as good as they say it is. I have my doubts.
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I fill the pain I am off contract 3 phone just got to talk my daughter into switching. She is in I Raleigh NC we are in Asheville she has great reception and our just plan suck. We even have to have there airave for service in the house. If they would spend a little more on towers and not pi$$ there money away in NASCAR they might coiuld keep there customer.
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I'd go month to month and buy a phone off contract with Verizon . But I don't have faith in this network vision of theirs. Sure it's state of the art. But it's also Sprint and not one tower is complete yet in Florida according to S4GRU..But I'd come back if it's as good as they say it is. I have my doubts.
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I've experienced the completion of it to an extent in Atlanta and it was nothing short of amazing compared to what I usually get here in Raleigh.
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jackie08 said:
I fill pain I am off contract 3 phone just got to talk my daughter into switching. She is in I Raleigh NC we are in Asheville she has great reception and our just plan suck. We even have to have there airave for service in the house. If they would spend a little more on towers and not pi$$ ther money away in NASCAR they might coiuld keep there customer.
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They are dropping way more enough on towers in this rollout... Also without NASCAR sprint would be no better than cricket as no one would know about them...lol jk
Though seriously that $ in NASCAR and the advertising they get is well spent. Can't buy that kind of spotlight constantly.
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Just pay the ETF(s), problem solved.
leerage said:
Just pay the ETF(s), problem solved.
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Looked into it.. $80 for me to cancel but then I'd have 1 pissed off wife(family plan) and that would do more damage than paying a full ETF of 350
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I love it. Guys are so thirsty for high speed data, but once they it get, they're realize the only true benefits are HD video streaming I'm glad with Sprints 3g in the North of Boston market I could pretty much do what I want to do with my phone besides streaming videos. And with Verizon's cap you're pretty much only guaranteed 3 movies per cap. No thanks I'm all set.
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Not looking for High speed data as much as I'm looking for data that doesn't drop to 1x constantly and can play my Google Music with out stopping every 20 seconds when I'm on the road.. Not looking to stream HD movies but I would like to actually watch a YouTube clip from time to time when I'm not on Wifi and not see "buffering".... But it's all pointless anyways because I'm going to see what the Hell Sprint is going to do. I've delt with them this long. I'll give em till June.
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I just wanted to share some good news with the Sprint users here. Sprint recently launched LTE in the Chicago area and for a while I haven't seen any major improvements near me (south of Chi-town). For those in this area, I did a speed test in Lockport earlier tonight and pulled down 2-3Mbps. Normally, I might get 100-200 Kbps. I know many people have been suffering with far less than that, but wanted to let people know it's getting better!
gk1984 said:
I just wanted to share some good news with the Sprint users here. Sprint recently launched LTE in the Chicago area and for a while I haven't seen any major improvements near me (south of Chi-town). For those in this area, I did a speed test in Lockport earlier tonight and pulled down 2-3Mbps. Normally, I might get 100-200 Kbps. I know many people have been suffering with far less than that, but wanted to let people know it's getting better!
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LOL! That's nice, but how does this affect me, Al Franken?
I can't even find my state in the dropdown list for upcoming Sprint LTE deployments!
No doubt Sprint is concentrating on the population centers that they think will bring in the most revenue, just like my next upgrade will depend on which carrier can supply competitive 4G coverage in my area.
ramjet73
I live in NYC and I still have shi**y reception. I think about switching carriers every time I drop a call or receive a text hours late. The unlimited data is the only thing keeping me from switching.
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Quick question since sprint is using lte towers now will we be able to pick up the 4g since the 3vo is wimax
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fourstar89 said:
Quick question since sprint is using lte towers now will we be able to pick up the 4g since the 3vo is wimax
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No our phones use 802.11e instead of the LTE protocols while some say a update could allow us to use it no one has really backed it up.
While 802.11e was the first revision of wimax and the next would have been better than LTE but to many others adopted LTE. YOu will need your upgrade to get a LTE device.
My upgrade is on the first of jan so I will be getting a nexus LTE device but won't see LTE here for a few years.
Seriously. Why would I use any newer phone if I have to drop back to 3G? I've been lucky and had unlimited WiMax since original EVO. Getting my girl a used Sensation off Craigslist and going to hook her up with Straight Talk. If the speeds are good maybe I'll go that route for a while. GSM Nexus off contract is probably the way I'll go next time.
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gk1984 said:
I just wanted to share some good news with the Sprint users here. Sprint recently launched LTE in the Chicago area and for a while I haven't seen any major improvements near me (south of Chi-town). For those in this area, I did a speed test in Lockport earlier tonight and pulled down 2-3Mbps. Normally, I might get 100-200 Kbps. I know many people have been suffering with far less than that, but wanted to let people know it's getting better!
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I got some i was happy to see it I live in the just a little a way west side
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ramjet73 said:
LOL! That's nice, but how does this affect me, Al Franken?
I can't even find my state in the dropdown list for upcoming Sprint LTE deployments!
No doubt Sprint is concentrating on the population centers that they think will bring in the most revenue, just like my next upgrade will depend on which carrier can supply competitive 4G coverage in my area.
ramjet73
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no complaining Ram when you are blanketed by a nice 4G WIMAX coverage. I had better 4G on my trip to Maui then I do in my home area in Orange County CA where we have 1 street with WIMAX and that drops as soon as you walk into a building!
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no complaining Ram when you are blanketed by a nice 4G WIMAX coverage. I had better 4G on my trip to Maui then I do in my home area in Orange County CA where we have 1 street with WIMAX and that drops as soon as you walk into a building!
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You're right, but what happens when it's time to upgrade? Guess I'll be keeping my 3D for a while but I'd planned to do that anyway.
ramjet73
I was in Chicago (Niles area) couple of weekends ago and there was 4G wimax available and I was getting 8mb/2mb speeds consistently. Too bad I live in Indianapolis where there is zero 4G.
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akiradavis said:
I live in NYC and I still have shi**y reception. I think about switching carriers every time I drop a call or receive a text hours late. The unlimited data is the only thing keeping me from switching.
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That sucks. Never happens to me at all.
Man I didn't realize how good I have it here in Minneapolis. I hold a 4-8Mbps 4G even inside buildings and almost out to the suburbs.
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Wish i had 4g in my area. 3g here is usually 100-150kbps :/ but i hope network vision helps out with this soon. If not I will change for sure
No 4g for phoenix yet. Hopefully LTE eventually gets deployed here
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hey guys if you want info about Network Vision, check out S4GRU.com. They have accurate and detailed info about NV deployments in each market.
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In Los Angeles I get awesome coverage. I'm hardly on 3G. 10mbps - 12mbps
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