i am wondering if i should get this phone and how development is going in these forums as i have a rezound and my contract is due in september should i get this phone in august as that is when i can cancel my contract or should i wait to see what else is released im switching to sprint as verizon decided to end unlimited data and i am not willing to pay retail price on a phone as i have already paid retail for the rezound so what are all of your experiences with this phone should i go for it or nah i dont like the nexus or gs3 help please!
Personally I love my EVO LTE. Honestly since you seem to be from Huston I would definitely drop Verizon and pick up this phone with Sprit.
A.) The rates are cheaper and you get TRUE unlimited data.
B.) Huston is one of the first markets that will be getting LTE on the 15th of this month so it should be running great by August.
C.) This phone is just so sexy it had to get its own letter just for that.
I had my OG EVO for 2 years and loved it. Now that I have the LTEVO I will never look back, I love this phone.
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Argh! Damnit, nevermind... I was going with my troll mentality on this one...
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Be nice, let the spelling go......
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Be nice, let the spelling go......
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It's not that, but that paragraph has tried to disguise itself as a sentence.
You being in the first LTE roll out market, I say HELL YEAH. I would run and not walk to Sprint today and lock in unlimited data. Verizon's prices are out of control.
As a fellow Houstonian, get Sprint's EVO LTE. In about a little over a week LTE will be officially switched on. The women (or me, if you're into that sort of thing) who will fall for you will be in the thousands.
Yea I'd say switch as well. One of the early ones with LTE. I'm in Roanoke Virginia. I never came close to seeing wimax and highly highly doubt I'll see lte during this phones life.
Verizon is money hungry and petty. I'd say switch in a heartbeat and try sprints lte
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Honestly, I probably would be with Verizon right now, if it weren't for the fact that Sprint just has a wider selection of more appealing phones. Another thing that sucks about Verizon is price! Sprint seems to actually be making an effort now to listen to customers and make them happy, so if you can wait for LTE and Network Vision upgrades, I think Sprint will be a better value long term.
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i mean i only pay 70 bucks a month for unlimited everything because i am a vip member of verizon but no unlimited data is going to kill me i mean i have house internet but im rarely home and i use my laptop more with the hotspot off my rezound so easily i get at least 20-30gbs a month and these data plans they have released are too crazy so i think i am going with sprint on this one and yes i do remember the good old days with the evo 4g got it when it barely came out but switched after my contract was up because verizon got 4g lte but yes i am switching back to sprint and i am getting this phone the specs on this beast are awesome and then its coming out in white! oh yeah!
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i mean i only pay 70 bucks a month for unlimited everything because i am a vip member of verizon but no unlimited data is going to kill me i mean i have house internet but im rarely home and i use my laptop more with the hotspot off my rezound so easily i get at least 20-30gbs a month and these data plans they have released are too crazy so i think i am going with sprint on this one and yes i do remember the good old days with the evo 4g got it when it barely came out but switched after my contract was up because verizon got 4g lte but yes i am switching back to sprint and i am getting this phone the specs on this beast are awesome and then its coming out in white! oh yeah!
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Sprint having the HTC EVO line of phones is worth the switch. Best smartphones ever made!
I dropped Verizon on Launch day of the EVo. I've had Sprint for over 10 years.
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Please do!! get the Rezound. That way we can have one less taking room of the LTE signal.
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I dropped Verizon on Launch day of the EVo. I've had Sprint for over 10 years.
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Did you have both Sprint and Verizon then? Your comment confused me, since the EVO is only two years old. Your two sentences seemed to contradict one another.
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Did you have both Sprint and Verizon then? Your comment confused me, since the EVO is only two years old. Your two sentences seemed to contradict one another.
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He is obviously a time traveler.
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He is obviously a time traveler.
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He better watch out, Apple just patented time travel yesterday.
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He better watch out, Apple just patented time travel yesterday.
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It's cool all he has to do is go back to the day before yesterday and patent it himself.
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It's cool all he has to do is go back to the day before yesterday and patent it himself.
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Oh crap, it turns out that Apple patented "anything to do with time" in 1996, so his machine MIGHT be stuck in ITC for a few weeks.
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Sprint having the HTC EVO line of phones is worth the switch. Best smartphones ever made!
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i agree with you on that one i still have my evo 4g with the wifi script and use it as an mp3 for the car!
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let me help you out here my friend......... think about this....
is unlimited data even a validated feature when the fastest download speed you will achieve will be 2 mb down? here is my argument. at this point, this means you will ALWAYS be on wifi when at home, assuming you have wifi....
so the question is, how FAST will your carrier connection be, and how much of a *#&$ing nightmare is it going to be for YOU to have UNGODLY SLOW mobile data...?
if this does not apply to you, (meaning you never access internet when on the go - unlikely) then disregard this analysis.
here is the thing...
on verizon's network, your mobile connection will be conveniently fast, this will be something you notice, trust me.
so here is what i would do. if it were me in your shoes... stay with the faster network. these are not "phones" they are computers. and how irritating as **** is it when your laptop loads web pages in 30 seconds. or even 10........... try to fathom what this transition will be to you and how it will effect you personally.
1. use wifi when at home (not sure why anybody wouldn't anyways, it is always faster) this will save your "usage" of your limited data plan.
2. use that 2 gb or whatever data plan you have, simply to conveniently access things while on the move.
3. thank me for this post. i probably saved you from hanging yourself.
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And I'm loving this tablet. 4g and wifi are working great. 3g in my area isn't the greatest for me but I have the two fastest connections I can use on this thing. Text messages work and the gps with google navigation works better than my evo phone. Installed my 32GB card after getting the top bumper off and now I have 64GBs of awesome storage.
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Just got it today and need help
I have not been watching too close but is there a trick to get my htc view to pick up my tp2's wifi router signal ?
I have the Flyer, but I'm considering going to the View. Love this tablet in a big way and would like to always be connected.
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I have not been watching too close but is there a trick to get my htc view to pick up my tp2's wifi router signal ?
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I'm assuming you are talking about tethering from your phone to the view. I can't answer that for you since I have the data plan. My original plan was to get the view on the lowest data plan and just tether off my evo but I wanted the sms/mms option with the view and I ended up having to get the data plan with unlimited 4g. Wish I could help but for now I have no reason to try to tether my evo to my view.
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I have the Flyer, but I'm considering going to the View. Love this tablet in a big way and would like to always be connected.
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This tablet is great. The data connection besides wifi is awesome but if you have the flyer and have a rooted android device why not try tethering it when your out? Just a thought.
Are you sure it's just random bad 3G? I ask because for me the radio is ungodly slow. I did five tests and all were 800 ping and sub 100kbps speed with full bars in multiple parts of town. I'll update PRL and maybe reset it and stuff to see if it improves. This is with 3G, no 4G here.
My Sprint HTC Arrive right next to it is pulling twice that.
Does the view have working netflix? It would be cool if we could get a apk
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Does the view have working netflix? It would be cool if we could get a apk
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Not with the launch software. There is an update already available for it that supposedly enables netflix but I haven't taken it yet since I'm still trying to figure out the partitions on the device.
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Are you sure it's just random bad 3G? I ask because for me the radio is ungodly slow. I did five tests and all were 800 ping and sub 100kbps speed with full bars in multiple parts of town. I'll update PRL and maybe reset it and stuff to see if it improves. This is with 3G, no 4G here.
My Sprint HTC Arrive right next to it is pulling twice that.
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I have a View and I'm having the same issue. 800 ping time and EDGE grade speeds over 3g. Nothing over 200-300kbps.
I just returned my Flyer and came home with my View.
I am getting 170 k down on 3g and 10.7 mb down on 4g at home.
I took the update and netflix was on the market waiting for me. I love this tablet too, its everything I've been waiting for!
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I took the update and netflix was on the market waiting for me. I love this tablet too, its everything I've been waiting for!
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That's good to know. Thanks for the report.
Ok so wait. I spent 100 dollars more for the same device and i don't get netflix or Skype vodeo? What a load of ****. I am never buying HTC ever again. bestbuy or HTC better give me a refund or they are going to have one crazy birch on there hands not to mention a lawsuit on there hands
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Ok so wait. I spent 100 dollars more for the same device and i don't get netflix or Skype vodeo? What a load of ****. I am never buying HTC ever again. bestbuy or HTC better give me a refund or they are going to have one crazy birch on there hands not to mention a lawsuit on there hands
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If you bought your Flyer withen the past two weeks you shouldn't have an issue. I returned mine with no issues and it was stained from the rocketfish case. Good luck!
Btw the lowest data plan you can get is $20/month for two years. But that's not so bad if you consider that's $480 worth of contract but you get a free $80 pen and $100 less upfront.
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If you bought your Flyer withen the past two weeks you shouldn't have an issue. I returned mine with no issues and it was stained from the rocketfish case. Good luck!
Btw the lowest data plan you can get is $20/month for two years. But that's not so bad if you consider that's $480 worth of contract but you get a free $80 pen and $100 less upfront.
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The lowest data plan is only for 3g data and it doesn't include text messaging. I think I took the 5gb 3g plan because it includes unlimited 4g and messaging.
Oh Im not disagreeing that its a bad plan (1gb, no sms for $20/month) but as far as being locked into a contract it isn't a large expense. Personally I'm on the $35/month plan (discounted from 45 because of my phone plan with Sprint)
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Oh Im not disagreeing that its a bad plan (1gb, no sms for $20/month) but as far as being locked into a contract it isn't a large expense. Personally I'm on the $35/month plan (discounted from 45 because of my phone plan with Sprint)
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Same here. The 20 dollar plan was my first choice and I was going to tether my evo to my view but since it didn't have messaging I said screw it and got the next lowest plan with messaging.
We think a lot alike. Got the flyer and tethered to my evo, but went ahead and got the View convincing myself with the lie of I would get the $20 plan but after getting home and seeing the lovely little Messages icon taunting me from the home screen... I couldn't resist so I bumped up the plan. Which btw, for anybody wondering, is awesome. So much easier texting on this than my phone.
Not a single regret from signing that contract. Although I did start to worry that the 3g radio was killing the battery much faster than when I had the flyer, but then I realized I have used this pretty much nonstop since 11am (currently 6pm). Time flys when you're nerding it up.
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If you bought your Flyer withen the past two weeks you shouldn't have an issue. I returned mine with no issues and it was stained from the rocketfish case. Good luck!
Btw the lowest data plan you can get is $20/month for two years. But that's not so bad if you consider that's $480 worth of contract but you get a free $80 pen and $100 less upfront.
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I totaly would just return it but alas I was such a loyal HTC customer that I bought the flyer the day before its official release.... So I am scrued. Wish sprint had a trade in for the the flyer for the EVO view because i would do it in a second. Well all I can do is hope and pray that HTC pushes it to the bb flyer.
Taheen, you got that right. I went 6 hours straight before I realized it still needed to be charged after taking it home. Messaging really is a whole lot better and easier IMO with the view than my evo. I didn't doubt the flyer users who said this tab was great but now I can say I know why. I'm even sending this message with my view using the stock browser
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I totaly would just return it but alas I was such a loyal HTC customer that I bought the flyer the day before its official release.... So I am scrued. Wish sprint had a trade in for the the flyer for the EVO view because i would do it in a second. Well all I can do is hope and pray that HTC pushes it to the bb flyer.
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I'm sure the flyer will get updated and be able to use netflix...I don't see why it wouldn't.
Well after reading this....http://phandroid.com/2011/07/19/dan-hesse-expect-big-announcements-from-sprint-about-4g-this-fall/
I'm pretty sure that the area that I am in will not be getting 4G service any time soon. TMobile is the only one who currently offers 4G in my area. That being said, since I will not be using the 4G service for a good while is there anyway that we can have the premium data charge removed from our bill? Or has anyone ever got it removed?
From what I remember we can't get it removed. What if you went on vacation and ended up in a 4G area. I'm sure you would use the 4G connectivity.
Its a "premium data plan" now, they stopped using the "4G access" because people were arguing the validity of it. All smart phones require the $10 add on. There's no way out of it.
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Its a "premium data plan" now, they stopped using the "4G access" because people were arguing the validity of it. All smart phone require the $10 add on. There's no way out of it.
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This.. their 4g has come to a dead halt. I dont even think they are expanding anymore
Yes that and they are not calling it a 4g fee just a generic smartphone data fee... So unfortunately if you want the phone you have to pay. Still cheaper than big red
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All smart phones on sprint are required to pay that 10 dallor fee now. So, no way out of it
not sure why you call it a evo or 4g tax, the premium data charge is for all smartphone devices 3g or 4g. if the $10 fee is to keep our data unlimited them im happy to pay it, and its still cheaper that vz or att. so im happy with that. so... no sprint wont take away the addon charge
I remember back when the Evo came out after I had got my Heroc that people called it the Evo tax. Ah well, I may go to DC or Raleigh and be able to use it. Just wanted to check. Thanks all....
And yeah, it is still cheper than VZW....
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not sure why you call it a evo or 4g tax, the premium data charge is for all smartphone devices 3g or 4g. if the $10 fee is to keep our data unlimited them im happy to pay it, and its still cheaper that vz or att. so im happy with that. so... no sprint wont take away the addon charge
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Last year it was a premium data fee only on 4G phones.
This.. their 4g has come to a dead halt. I dont even think they are expanding anymore
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Yeah, I think the LTE thing has a lot to do with that...though, I don't know what the hell they expect LTE to do when WiMax is a far superior protocol as far as I am concerned. I'm sure their engineers are well aware of Sprint/Clear's worst-in-show frequencies and power limits are to blame for the horrible spotty coverage even in "full 4G" areas. Is this super expensive switch to LTE (on crappy frequencies) nothing more than a super-expensive marketing maneuver? I mean, srsly...Similar or worse protocol on the same horrible frequencies aren't going to change anything, or even make it perform worse.
4G is still rolling out slowly, just got it in my town, sprint reps didn't know anything about it. Just tried it a few weeks ago and to my surprise 5Mbps down, and 1.7 up.
Try an app in the market called "sensorly" it will show where 4G is before sprint will acknowledge it. Be sure to follow the setup for sprint and then 4G maps.
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That or just look at Clearwire's website. I have 4G coverage where I live and in some spots here in OKC, but Sprint has said nothing about it.
The 10 dollar/month fee is to keep "true unlimited data" on any smartphone according to Sprint.. and with my usage this is still cheaper than using the "death star" or "vzw" but YMMV
Yeah, that fee is also applied to the blackberry phones.
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From what I remember we can't get it removed. What if you went on vacation and ended up in a 4G area. I'm sure you would use the 4G connectivity.
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probably not, i'd be vacationing.
besides, if i promised to disable my 4g i'd take that damn 10bucks off a month. They dont have 4g in this podunk town i live in for the next year.
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probably not, i'd be vacationing.
besides, if i promised to disable my 4g i'd take that damn 10bucks off a month. They dont have 4g in this podunk town i live in for the next year.
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and then you'll only have it outdoors...I'd add a 'lol' at the end, but, I ain't laughin'
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4G is still rolling out slowly, just got it in my town, sprint reps didn't know anything about it. Just tried it a few weeks ago and to my surprise 5Mbps down, and 1.7 up.
Try an app in the market called "sensorly" it will show where 4G is before sprint will acknowledge it. Be sure to follow the setup for sprint and then 4G maps.
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1.7 up? Liar! http://mobile.engadget.com/2011/06/13/sprint-ready-to-bump-4g-upload-speed-cap-will-raise-wi-max-to/
Seriously...I'm almost sickened by done of the posts here. Makes me wonder if Sprint seriously has the most simple customers.
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1.7 up? Liar! http://mobile.engadget.com/2011/06/13/sprint-ready-to-bump-4g-upload-speed-cap-will-raise-wi-max-to/
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Well then it sucks to be me, just got 1437 up, I must have broken phone. Sorry dude...
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It WAS an Evo tax. Here's proof from when I disputed it a while ago. I took these myself. I later realized that if I have to pay an extra $10 a month for my line to keep unlimited data, then so be it. I get close to 2GB. I never go over, but then again this is without Netflix/Pandora/etc, so in the future I might:
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1437 is believeable....but u said. 1.7 which is BS for sure!!!
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I dunno if this has already been posted, but I thought this was some good info to have.
You can pop in your zip code and check the recent and planned future Tower upgrades in your area. Near my work, they made some recent upgrades and I definitely noticed. I was getting anywhere from 20-60kbps in recent months. Just a week ago I started averaging 400-600kbps.
I know it's not amazing, but a welcome change. Plus it looks like there are 4 more updates scheduled near me in the next 6 months. At least you can get a glimpse of what's to come. Just some good info to have.
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This is really neat. I see a lot of planned tower upgrades in my area!
Thats cool. Thanks OP
Thanks for showing me that there will be ZERO upgrades in the next 6 months on my area. That's all I needed to know. Good bye, Sprint and hello AT&T.
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Thanks for showing me that there will be ZERO upgrades in the next 6 months on my area. That's all I needed to know. Good bye, Sprint and hello AT&T.
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Six months isn't that bad
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Here is mines
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Here is mines
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Holy ****! I wish mine looked like that!
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Droga said:
Thanks for showing me that there will be ZERO upgrades in the next 6 months on my area. That's all I needed to know. Good bye, Sprint and hello AT&T.
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No problem, I figured it would help people out. Better to know then wonder right?
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Holy ****! I wish mine looked like that!
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I know! I'm jealous!
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Holy ****! I wish mine looked like that!
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lol finally its what I'm finally
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No problem, I figured it would help people out. Better to know then wonder right?
I know! I'm jealous!
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Lol we've been waiting for it service had been crappy I can't wait
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They are showing zero here?! Verizon and AT&T have towers cluttering every hill around here and Sprint has 1?? I call shenanigans!
FOr Jacksonville Florida , seeing plenty of past upgrades as well as soon to happen upgrades . This is a good thing but heres the down part . The areas I seem to travel to most out of state , still primarily Verizon territory with far and few sprint towers or future towers expected . I got Sprint then the traveling took place , If I knew now what I know I would have went with Verizon .
lol according to their site nearly every tower around me has had capacity and data speed upgrades but the data gets slower everyday.
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Thanks for showing me that there will be ZERO upgrades in the next 6 months on my area. That's all I needed to know. Good bye, Sprint and hello AT&T.
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Six months isn't that bad
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Some of us have been waiting a long time. We don't have 4g at all, and the 3G is too slow to use. So if he has seen no upgrade in the last 6 months and none in the future 6 you can get an idea of how unimportant the area is to sprint. Also I am betting if you didn't live in the area you were in and weren't seeing improvement you would be thinking the same thing.
It is frustrating....I live in the fifth largest suburb in the us, and fifth fastest growing. If that doesn't make it one of the top priority, I don't know what else would
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lol according to their site nearly every tower around me has had capacity and data speed upgrades but the data gets slower everyday.
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Yeah that is basically what I am seeing too. I will believe this network vision when I see it for myself. I have had 9 upgrades in a 10 square mile and there is nothing but slower and call + data dropping goodness.
Thanks. I have had zero with none planned. Sigh.
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Some of us have been waiting a long time. We don't have 4g at all, and the 3G is too slow to use. So if he has seen no upgrade in the last 6 months and none in the future 6 you can get an idea of how unimportant the area is to sprint. Also I am betting if you didn't live in the area you were in and weren't seeing improvement you would be thinking the same thing.
It is frustrating....I live in the fifth largest suburb in the us, and fifth fastest growing. If that doesn't make it one of the top priority, I don't know what else would
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Yeah that is basically what I am seeing too. I will believe this network vision when I see it for myself. I have had 9 upgrades in a 10 square mile and there is nothing but slower and call + data dropping goodness.
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Actually I bought the Evo just when it came out waited the next year without 4g we have like three active towers I am the state my phones doesn't hold a steady connection for more than thirty minutes and the sad particular get two 4g bars and speeds don't go past 1mbps isn't that crazy my 3g .29 I know what he's going through at my job I can't even text freaking roaming but I tried that Verizon prl 3g .68 and up at my job full bars I was saying six months isn't bad cause they are supposed to be upgrading their network so six months isn't bad to wait for faster unlimited data then going to switch the limited, expensive, or capped data
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Awesome my area is under nail & hammer, a lot done & soon to be done.
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Oh, your area doesn't have 4g? I swore Detroit did. Now that you have clarified I do see the point you make, thanks.
I'm kind of on the fence, I can't decide what I want more. I was with Tmobile and they had decent speed 4g, but throttle you after x GB of data (bastards, unlimited data my ass). Right now I am so unhappy with my data speed and no 4g, I think I would trade top speed over unlimited. Sprint won't dare remove that unlimited data until their 3G is top tier everywhere, and their 4g reaches at least the #of customers that other carriers can, or more. If they did, they would not be able to accurately say anything good about their network, because they have the slowest speed on average than any competitor, and if they didn't have unlimited data packages they would not be better than their competitors in that respect either. Effectively making them THE WORST carrier all around.
Brilliant. This sucks.
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Awesome my area is under nail & hammer, a lot done & soon to be done.
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Jesus, that beats my area by double. Even Phoenix AZ, the densest urban populous in AZ, it is double the past and future upgrades!
At 2.9 gb for the month. In 3g area I usually get about 1.4 upload on speed test. Now in getting .19 consistently ....
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At 2.9 gb for the month. In 3g area I usually get about 1.4 upload on speed test. Now in getting .19 consistently ....
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You had probally reached your data plan limit, now you are running in a lower donwload speeds. Thanks
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Have grandfathered unlimited data plan so. I couldn't have reached limit on plan
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I have grandfathered unlimited data as well. I have not noticed this and I often go over 200/300 gigs a month as I use my phone as my sole internet source.
I am curious if they ever do throttle grandfathered unlimited data users.
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...I often go over 200/300 gigs a month as I use my phone as my sole internet source.
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This is why carriers have gone to tiered data.. just sayin'
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I have grandfathered unlimited data as well. I have not noticed this and I often go over 200/300 gigs a month as I use my phone as my sole internet source.
I am curious if they ever do throttle grandfathered unlimited data users.
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Me too... At work streaming pandora & at home playing FPS games & downloading videos, movies... lol I dont use that much though... damn
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This is why carriers have gone to tiered data.. just sayin'
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No, they went to tiered data so they can bill the end user for more money while instilling the belief that people are using too much data and they can't support it.
It reminds me of the early 80s when the gas prices climbed to .75¢ a gallon and the gloom and doom prophets said the outrageous price increase was because of a limited supply, and the world would be completely devoid of fossil fuels by...wait for it...1987. Now, I have looked around, and I see that people, nearly 30 years after the world ran out of gas, are still buying the same old BS and paying upwards of $5 a gallon...while the price in Venezuela on Monday was...get this...18¢ a gallon after converting to USD.
So, don't buy the whole limited bandwidth BS. My school has multiple Gigabit connections and probably runs through more data than the average small country because its a super computing node for some high end government cluster. I asked one of the EE professors how close they were to maxing out the fiber optic line coming in and he said "oh, occasionally we will hit half a percent of total capacity".
Moral of the story: they charge you more for tiered data because you will pay it.
Now, calling someone a ****ing moron because you believe the utter BS that a greed filled multinational conglomerate feeds you about why they want to charge you more dollars for less product is somewhat odepian in nature don't you think?
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This is why carriers have gone to tiered data.. just sayin'
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Hey, I pay the $30 a month for the wireless tethering even though I know there are ways around it. I always pay my bill on time and I have been a loyal Verizon customer for years... So you bet I'm going to use the crap out of my grandfathered in unlimited data!!! Why would I pay another $100 a month to Verizon for Fios which would just give me what I already have through my phone...? INTERNET ACCESS!!!
While ATT truly throttles their customers based on TOTAL download, VZW's stance as I'm told prior to switching a few days ago, is: If you're on a particular tower and it is congested and you've used over 2 Gigs, your traffic will be "optimized" at a preferable speed to allow other users to use the service. So, they throttle based on tower congestion.. much fairer. If you connect to a different tower, then all the "throttling / optimization" goes away and you should be back to your normal 3g/4g speeds..until you return to the throttled tower.
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Have grandfathered unlimited data plan so. I couldn't have reached limit on plan
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Yep! Unlimited data plans are not that much unlimited. you have probably a caped internet, complain about it. :/
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Good day you used over 300GB and you still get good speed?
Do you drop data and if so does it happen more then 1 time a week?
I would like to know, becuase I have had some isuses and I don't know how/if I can fix it.
Thanks
Well I was at about 72GB yesterday and I downloaded a 13GB torrent file and was getting over 1.5MB down... So no I don’t think I was being throttled.
Complete ameture or "noob" as you guys say. Are these razrs simply not meant for 3g? I mean it works, but I had an iphone before and it took no time for a song on pandora to buffer. it takes an eternity on my razr.. Obviously the phone isn't firing on all cylinders in 3g but let's just say Iphone 3g > RAZR 3g. Somebody care to call me out and explain?
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Realize I spelled "amateur" wrong. Trying out swift key today and swype no longer is spelling for me.
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Droped data 3 times today in two places with -69dbm to -86dbm or 3-5 bars. It's really starting to bug me.
Me too, I came into android with the impression that everything was supposed to be more open and free, well I definitely feel tied down when I'm in 5 bars 3g blue lettering, and I start an app and it goes white lettering. It's ridiculous. I didn't understand what Sprint was talking about in those commercials talking about other companies slowing your data down, I fully understand what they mean now. I like android a lot, but this pisses me off.
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Me too, I came into android with the impression that everything was supposed to be more open and free, well I definitely feel tied down when I'm in 5 bars 3g blue lettering, and I start an app and it goes white lettering. It's ridiculous. I didn't understand what Sprint was talking about in those commercials talking about other companies slowing your data down, I fully understand what they mean now. I like android a lot, but this pisses me off.
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I really think this has more to do with your location than a blanket policy. I'm in Boston and the coverage is great here and I never have any of these issues.
You guys are seeing data-dropping and 3G/4G hand-off issues (not throttling). I see this often on the west side of Indianapolis. I spoke to VZW about it today:
https://forums.motorola.com/posts/97c770a3e8
I have been reading a lot in to it and I think thats it. It falls inline with what I was told about the phone geting an update. (He said it could very well be ICS too, but that seems unlikely now.)
This is the last thing that I would ever think to go bad with a motorola phone. I could see the GPU or CPU sucking or the FC all over, but I ever would have guessed data droping. Now I am starting to wish I got the 720p HTC phone.
I have a high degree of confidence that the issues will be resolved and that Motorola will remain the best hardware choice going forward on USA CDMA networks.
Phone Dog seems to have a nice video review of the EVO 4G LTE. Aaron really is becoming an excellent phone reviewer. I like the way he always goes through the apps and screens to show how the phone truly works rather than make opinionated reviews with out detailed video explanations to back what he says. HE really has nice things to say about battery life if anyone is interested. All I can say is damn.....this phone is really fast.
http://www.phonedog.com/videos/htc-evo-4g-lte-video-review-part-1/
http://www.phonedog.com/videos/htc-evo-4g-lte-video-review-part-2/
TEASE!!!!!!!!!! You sir lack feelings in these troubled times
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TEASE!!!!!!!!!! You sir lack feelings in these troubled times
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Troubled times needs a little inspiration to show that the trouble and wait is worth it or not. I see some people debating canceling their order with no other phone coming with in the next few weeks. Those people need inspiration to be patient! Did you hear that part where Aarons says the camera best the mighty iPhone, and calls this the best phone on the market today!
I just finished watching his review. I really like his reviews, they are almost better than Android Central's. I'm just waiting for this whole thing to get straightened out so I can actually purchase my EVO.
Best review I saw so far. I got to see what I'm looking forward to. Made me feel a little better during these troubled times.
Yeah very good review. I also agree with him about Sprints pathetic 3G download speeds. They really need to speed the NV upgrade up before they lose a ton of customers.
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Yeah very good review. I also agree with him about Sprints pathetic 3G download speeds. They really need to speed the NV upgrade up before they lose a ton of customers.
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It wasn't like this a few months ago, because I was able to get 1MB up, and down on 3G in some areas. In the last month or so it has become terrible. LOS, dropped calls delayed text messages. I hope network vision upgrades are complete here in NYC.
I was told by a CS rep that network upgrades are the problem because network vision is being rolled out very soon. I know NYC market is listed as a 1st round market for network vision to come live in 2012. I am hoping this pain will stop in June or there about!
Also may I reiterate that Aaron does a very good video review for each phone that seems fair, unbiased, and truthful.
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It wasn't like this a few months ago, because I was able to get 1MB up, and down on 3G in some areas. In the last month or so it has become terrible. LOS, dropped calls delayed text messages. I hope network vision upgrades are complete here in NYC.
I was told by a CS rep that network upgrades are the problem because network vision is being rolled out very soon. I know NYC market is listed as a 1st round market for network vision to come live in 2012. I am hoping this pain will stop in June or there about!
Also may I reiterate that Aaron does a very good video review for each phone that seems fair, unbiased, and truthful.
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I agree with you regarding the speeds. I live in Columbus, OH right now and used to get around 800-1000kbps during the day. Now its absolutely atrocious, though Columbus isn't even on the NV roll out list. Hopefully we can get LTE here before the end of 2013.
As bad as sprint 3g has been I'm still able to stream google music and spotify with no problems. But its always ugly in the speed test app.
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I agree with you regarding the speeds. I live in Columbus, OH right now and used to get around 800-1000kbps during the day. Now its absolutely atrocious, though Columbus isn't even on the NV roll out list. Hopefully we can get LTE here before the end of 2013.
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Viridus
If u don't have the speedtest app download it, once downloaded change which server u use. I connect to Radnor and get better speeds than I do on the Columbus tower
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Viridus
If u don't have the speedtest app download it, once downloaded change which server u use. I connect to Radnor and get better speeds than I do on the Columbus tower
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What happened when u change the server? Does that mean actual 3G data speeds will be faster?
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Yes either slower or faster depending on where u r and which tower u choose to connect
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What happened when u change the server? Does that mean actual 3G data speeds will be faster?
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It won't actually change your 3G speed in browsing the web, just your results in the SpeedTest app.
Honestly, although I like and want this ELTE device. I feel like we r being played by Sprint. I used to work for them for 5 yrs as a CSR and I like them for their plans and devices. I dont want anyone to think I'm just hating on them. I really enjoy my service and plan and genuinely roll with Sprint, but c'mon.
I mean, we have to pay an additional fee for "premium" data, but a lot of ppl don't have access to premium data. They were told they wld be rolling out 4G nationwide (for the most part) which is still not accessible nationwide. Now, all smart phones pay an additional fee? Sounds like we were hood-winked and that's just not right.
And about this release date being push-back b/c of CBP, this is absolutely insane! Ok, so you have a press conference saying this high-end (flagship) phone will be released on 5/18 for a network that's won't initially be ready until June, possibly. Then we are expected to go back to using 3G (EVO owners with 4G coverage) until the network catches up, right? And still pay an additional fee!? That's also insane and confusing like the guy in the reviews said.
My problem with that is that u have HTC, Sprint, and At&t, which are very big companies that are waiting on a major flagship device. You mean to tell me that noone is any of these organizations had the foresight to say, "now u know there's some patent issues and the phones may not get imported?" Noone in any of these companies had the intelligence to think, what if? What contingency plan do we have? And to make it worse, some ppl can't cancel their order?? That's Sprint saying hell no you not getting your money back even though we fudged up, you're going to wait until the phone arrives and then send it back. Yea right? After we've been drooling over the phone, we're gonna send it back once we get it? I don't think so.....I just feel like the end-user always gets "it" up the rear with no lub!
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Honestly, although I like and want this ELTE device. I feel like we r being played by Sprint. I used to work for them for 5 yrs as a CSR and I like them for their plans and devices. I dont want anyone to think I'm just hating on them. I really enjoy my service and plan and genuinely roll with Sprint, but c'mon.
I mean, we have to pay an additional fee for "premium" data, but a lot of ppl don't have access to premium data. They were told they wld be rolling out 4G nationwide (for the most part) which is still not accessible nationwide. Now, all smart phones pay an additional fee? Sounds like we were hood-winked and that's just not right.
And about this release date being push-back b/c of CBP, this is absolutely insane! Ok, so you have a press conference saying this high-end (flagship) phone will be released on 5/18 for a network that's won't initially be ready until June, possibly. Then we are expected to go back to using 3G (EVO owners with 4G coverage) until the network catches up, right? And still pay an additional fee!? That's also insane and confusing like the guy in the reviews said.
My problem with that is that u have HTC, Sprint, and At&t, which are very big companies that are waiting on a major flagship device. You mean to tell me that noone is any of these organizations had the foresight to say, "now u know there's some patent issues and the phones may not get imported?" Noone in any of these companies had the intelligence to think, what if? What contingency plan do we have? And to make it worse, some ppl can't cancel their order?? That's Sprint saying hell no you not getting your money back even though we fudged up, you're going to wait until the phone arrives and then send it back. Yea right? After we've been drooling over the phone, we're gonna send it back once we get it? I don't think so.....I just feel like the end-user always gets "it" up the rear with no lub!
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You are making the same mistake almost everyone else (and everyone who complains about that 10.00 data charge as far as I know) does:
Premium data does not mean 4G. It means premium data. Flip phones don't have that fee.
After the Hero came out and other smart phones became more prevalent, Sprint charged a fee that was initially erroneously assumed to be 4G related (because it came out with the Evo 4G). The data charge is simply due to the fact that smartphones use one HELL of a lot more data on the network than flip phones, or 'non-smart' phones do.
Sprint realized that as these phones became more common they were going to be adding to the networks in order to accommodate the influx of data use, and rather than simply raising the rates on their plans (which they should probably do so people stop *****ing about having to pay a '4G premium' (it isn't) when they don't have 4G service) they just added a line item surcharge.
It's not a '4g' charge. It's a charge for phones that use the most data on their networks. I find it to be eminently fair.
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You mean to tell me that noone is any of these organizations had the foresight to say, "now u know there's some patent issues and the phones may not get imported?" Noone in any of these companies had the intelligence to think, what if? What contingency plan do we have?
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The ONE X launched on AT&T on 5/6. The ITC didn't ban imports on that device when it launched, so what would make HTC or Sprint think the evo launch would go any differently?
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You are making the same mistake almost everyone else (and everyone who complains about that 10.00 data charge as far as I know) does:
Premium data does not mean 4G. It means premium data. Flip phones don't have that fee.
After the Hero came out and other smart phones became more prevalent, Sprint charged a fee that was initially erroneously assumed to be 4G related (because it came out with the Evo 4G). The data charge is simply due to the fact that smartphones use one HELL of a lot more data on the network than flip phones, or 'non-smart' phones do.
Sprint realized that as these phones became more common they were going to be adding to the networks in order to accommodate the influx of data use, and rather than simply raising the rates on their plans (which they should probably do so people stop *****ing about having to pay a '4G premium' (it isn't) when they don't have 4G service) they just added a line item surcharge.
It's not a '4g' charge. It's a charge for phones that use the most data on their networks. I find it to be eminently fair.
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Ok, I see your point! But what then does premium data mean? I think my TP2, Moto Q, used 3G and there wasn't an additional data fee. And I was informed by sprint that initially it was being charged b/c it was 4G device. And I believe initially only 4G devices were billed this fee. Now all smartphone are billed this fee. My point is, It's all about the money like everything else. I just think as big as Sprint is, they should know better than to count their eggs b4 they hatch.
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Ok, I see your point! But what then does premium data mean? I think my TP2, Moto Q, used 3G and there wasn't an additional data fee. And I was informed by sprint that initially it was being charged b/c it was 4G device. And I believe initially only 4G devices were billed this fee. Now all smartphone are billed this fee. My point is, It's all about the money like everything else. I just think as big as Sprint is, they should know better than to count their eggs b4 they hatch.
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It was only the Evo that had that data fee in the beginning. But it was never a 4G fee. The reps made an invalid assumption....basically never believe anything you get from a Sprint rep.
What they did was hit EVERY smart phone after the Evo with that 10.00 fee, then grandfathered in the old smart phones like the Hero. The reason they didn't have that fee prior to that is because they realized that with newer phones having a higher capable speed, coupled with the massive amount of smart phones they already had in the pipeline, they were going to blow up in terms of data usage...so they instituted the fee and to the best of my knowledge have been using it for upgrades to the network.
Again, the fee came about due to the massive amounts of data that smart phones use, whether they're on 1x, 3g, 4g. They use a TON of data. Think about how many of your apps have an hourly poll to the network (weather, most widgets, etc), then multiply that by how many smartphones are on Sprint's network and you'll begin to see why they added that fee.
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It was only the Evo that had that data fee in the beginning. But it was never a 4G fee. The reps made an invalid assumption....basically never believe anything you get from a Sprint rep.
What they did was hit EVERY smart phone after the Evo with that 10.00 fee, then grandfathered in the old smart phones like the Hero. The reason they didn't have that fee prior to that is because they realized that with newer phones having a higher capable speed, coupled with the massive amount of smart phones they already had in the pipeline, they were going to blow up in terms of data usage...so they instituted the fee and to the best of my knowledge have been using it for upgrades to the network.
Again, the fee came about due to the massive amounts of data that smart phones use, whether they're on 1x, 3g, 4g. They use a TON of data. Think about how many of your apps have an hourly poll to the network (weather, most widgets, etc), then multiply that by how many smartphones are on Sprint's network and you'll begin to see why they added that fee.
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I see your point...
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im actually getting fairly good speeds again with sprint, was getting 2mbps + for a long time, then they dropped down, now its back up again
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