User: crossedsignals
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If you're going to report comparitive data on carriers, keep the timescales the same
The author omits the number of POPs covered by Sprint at the end of 2013 (and instead reports mid-Summer numbers which make it appear that Sprint will lag far behind other US carriers), while reporting end of year numbers for AT&T and T-Mo and roll-out complete numbers for VZW.
From six days ago: http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/sprint-cf o-dish-softbank-deals-arent-affecting-network -vision-deployment/2013-04-24
Sprint plans to cover 200 million POPs with LTE by the end of the year, which is down from its initial goal of 250 million. ...
Re: no SVDO? I'll pass this one.
Confirmed here: http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-327- samsung-galaxy-note-2-big-enough-for-everythi ng-except-svdo/
Re: who would spend the extra for the maxx?
The phone world is rapidly breaking down into price points separated by $100. Taking into context the RAZR M, RAZR HD and RAZR HD MAXX, MOT has the $99, $199 and $299 price points covered.
Using Apple's pricing strategy of double the memory costs $100 more (i.e. 16GB iPhone @ $199 subsidized price; 32GB @$299), the fact that the RAZR HD -> RAZR HD MAXX nets a doubling of RAM and a bigger battery looks like a bargain.
Given the ...
Re: Let me get this strait?
From Crown Castle's SEC Form DEF 14A (shows all owners of CCI holding >5% of the firm):
Other Security Ownership
The following is a tabulation as of March 26, 2012 of our stockholders who own beneficially in excess of 5% of our Common Stock.
Shares Beneficially
Owned
Beneficial Owner
Number Percent(a)
T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (b)
33,598,667 ...
Re: LTE???
http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-297- puerto-ricovirgin-islands-network-visionlte-d eployment-schedule-update/
looks like May 2013 for completion.
Headline Error?
Powermat's charging technology is based on an inductive coupling between the charging matt and the adapter on the back of the phone, not a conductive link:
The first company to not only perfect inductive-based wireless charging but to then bring it to consumers in a widely available, meaningful way via mainstream retail channels, Powermat pioneered the wireless charging category and currently leads the market in device compatibility, retail availability, technological advancement, consumer experience and brand.
(Reference: http://www.powermat.com/us/about-powermat)
I don't see anything ...
Re: EVDO, WI-MAX?
CamelTowing said:
algorithmplus said:
I have to agree with stevelvl. Maybe we could compare the cost of proprietary CDMA implementations to the cost of similar GSM implementations of devices. It's more cost efficient to develop a product that is capable of serving a population of 2 billion as compared to a device that will only serve 300 million people.
The fact that Sprint is going to be the ONLY major wireless company using WIMAX, that pretty much destroys your argument. ...
$700M in revenue going away
Maybe Qualcomm should hire NTP's attorneys so they stop losing cases.
Re: covered heavily on mobileburn and boygenius
Correction: should be CDMA/GSM
covered heavily on mobileburn and boygenius
updated interface
1.3MP camera, not 2.0 :cry:
No IR port
No Worldmode (feature of the Qualcomm chipset that allows CDMA/GPS [as used in BB 8830] ):evil:
A watered down version on the EU Roaming Charge Reform
This essentially mimics what the EU did in April with capping roaming charges, except that in true Capitalist fashion, the FCC lets the market decide what is fair and reasonable.
http://www.betanews.com/articl e/EU_Passes_Roaming_Legislation/1179934407
Re: Battery Life
The linked WSJ article quotes a 1 to 1.5 hour run time on a typical cell phone...not that you're going to use this feature continuously.
I'm sure the performance will improve as they develop the system further. First gen CDMA handsets like my Qualcomm Q phone didn't even have a talk time of 1.5 hours in real life.
http://webreprints.djreprints.com/16 40241430214.html
Re: 60 days
Yup...the CDMA V3m uses the MSM6500 chipset...that would be a Qualcomm chipset, not Motorola so the poor performance, if it's attributable to the chipset, should be blamed on Qualcomm.
Motorola hasn't produced a CDMA chipset since the days of IS-95 and Nokia's been out of the business for at least a couple of years.
Why not Motorola ic402/ic502
Moto comes out with the ideal phone for Boost and Sprint goes out and chooses not only a phone that cannibalizes Boost's main value proposition (vs. Metro PCS and Cricket) but also has a questionable reputation among users. Read the ratings here and the c290 is basically one step above junk.
So let me get this straight:
Boost mobile comes out of the block featuring the 2 way radio feature and a tag line 'where you at?' (implying that's ...
Re: Some GSM "Security" questions...
Certain version of the GSM encryption algorithm have been hacked in the past: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A5/1. Most alleged hacks rely on perfect conditions which are almost unobtainable in the real world and therefore unlikely to happen. There are those that claim to have ability to compromise even the newest algorithms http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/users/wwwb/cgi-b in/tr-info.cgi?2006/CS/CS-2006-07
Much of CDMA's superiority in the area of security focuses on it's code-based multiplexing. I've not heard of anyone claiming to have been able to hack the CDMA interface. ...
Re: The end of CDMA?
Hmm...Amp'd mobile's website lists the RAZRs chipset as the MSM6500....a Qualcomm Chipset
Further corroboration (applies to the CDMA Q as well)
http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/Index.cf m?AD=1&ArticleID=13567
GSM versions of the RAZR use Freescale (formerly Motorola) chipsets.
Hipocrites
So let me get this straight...
Phone service is one of the most taxed utilities, with taxes in some cases averaging over 20% of the total phone bills. Of that 20%, 80% is often levied by the individual state.
Example:
New York
State & Local Taxes: 16.23%
Federal Excise: 3%
Federal USF: 2.48%
(see what your state is at: http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/06/06/c z_sw_0606cellphone.html click on the map link to see individual states.)
Now the states (the same folks levying phone tax rates that look like ...
Re: NO 3G = Deal breaker for me
Considering how slow some of the page loads were in the keynote video...with the phone on a Wi-Fi network, people are going to scream bloody murder with the speeds on EDGE.
I'd wait for the HSDPA version to take advantage of that alleged 7.2 MB download speed Cingular says they're going to have.
Re: why no cdma- give it time
A long time....Cingular's exclusive is 'multi-year' (I think I remember it as 3 years from the keynote).
It's doubtful (though possible) that we'll see a CDMA version for Korea before the US version.
Re: The Rest of the World
Total Number of GSM subscribers (Worldwide): 2.23 Billion
(Source: GSMworld.com)
Total Number of CDMA subscribers (Worldwide): 700 Million
(Source: CDG.org)
Total number of handsets sold worldwide last year: 946 Million
(Source: Apple/Jobs keynote)
Estimated proportion of total sales by technology:
GSM: 746 million handsets
CDMA: 200 million handsets
Apple's 2008 Sales Goal: 10 Million Units
If you were in charge of Apple's marketing and sales, which market would you rather sell to? The one where you can meet your ...
Re: James Kim and Cell Phone Service
I'm late to the discussion on this, but...here are a few thoughts I had on the topic and how potentially the selection of a gSM carrier hurt their chances of being able to reach help by phone
The facts as I've been able to gather:
The Kim's were Cingular customers in Edge Wireless' coverage area. They had 2 or 3 phones in the car, depending on the report. I assume they were all Cingular.
The Saab 9-2x they were driving ...
