[trekk]

Quick question for you guys... Virgin is advertising this thing as LTE (as I'm sure all your carriers are as well), I'm in the coverage area but I'm only seeing H+ as the network... I'm just wondering if this is the only icon or if I'm actually not getting LTE

1- Do you have an LTE sim card?

2- Make sure you call Virgin and that you are running an LTE data plan

[kb2755]

1- Do you have an LTE sim card?

2- Make sure you call Virgin and that you are running an LTE data plan

Definitely have an LTE SIM, and I have 6GB in my plan. I'll have to call later. I was just curious if LTE would show a different icon in the coverage indicator.

[Roboticz]

I preordered the first day i could along time ago.....through future shop to be on the Rogers network. Still no phone (I ordered the pebble blue) they did phone and tell me that they are giving me a $25. gift card because of the delay? I am calling tomorrow to see what is going on.

The stores have stock... just go into the store and tell them you have a pre-order. They have stock set aside for people who pre-ordered.

[trekk]

Definitely have an LTE SIM, and I have 6GB in my plan. I'll have to call later. I was just curious if LTE would show a different icon in the coverage indicator.

When I had the GS2 with Rogers, before I call Rogers it would just show 4g on top when they activated my LTE, it then showed up on top.

[Roboticz]

Yeah... if you have 4G LTE it will say LTE. I don't have an LTE plan... so my phone right now just says 4G... which I'm told is really 3G.

[kb2755]

So perhaps a good bit of info for anyone on Virgin, if you have one of the "my buddies" plans, they don't classify that as a smartphone plan, and therefore you max out at HSPA+.

My plan consists of 6GB data, yet they won't call that a smartphone plan... sounds odd to me, but I'm not giving it up for what little I'm paying for it. I can live without the LTE for a while.

[GEMgirl13]

update still no pebble blue for rogers they are getting limited phones, anyway i asked them the magical question what is the sense of preordering and said if you have a white one i will take that, so i am so happy to finally get my hands on this slick phone! oh and they gave me a $50.gift card for all the aggravation!

[Roboticz]

GEMGirl!!! They have the phones in stores! I currently own a Pebble Blue Rogers SGS3! Just goto a store!!! Best Buy and Future Shop can access your Rogers account details...

[reeneebob]

Hi guys - I had a Bell Galaxy S Vibrant (with that LOVELY faulty motherboard recall issue) but left Android on phone (still have it on my HP Touchpad) and went iPhone about a year ago. I also had a white BB Bold 9900, which I sold yesterday. Picked up a 16 GB Pebble Blue SGS3 about an hour ago.

What a phone.

[The_Finja]

Just so I'm clear, I'm with Telus and at the top of my phone it says 4G is this LTE? It seems pretty fast, (way faster than my bb with H+)

[brava27]

Definitely have an LTE SIM, and I have 6GB in my plan. I'll have to call later. I was just curious if LTE would show a different icon in the coverage indicator.

6GB? Isn't that expensive? Wow

[brava27]

Just so I'm clear, I'm with Telus and at the top of my phone it says 4G is this LTE? It seems pretty fast, (way faster than my bb with H+)

I had the BB and H+, the connection that the S3 has is a lot faaaaster.
Downloaded 3mb in seconds, pretty neat. LTE or 4G I believe is the same.

[snoopyandroid]

6GB? Isn't that expensive? Wow

Promo is usually 6GB for $30.

[snoopyandroid]

I had the BB and H+, the connection that the S3 has is a lot faaaaster.
Downloaded 3mb in seconds, pretty neat. LTE or 4G I believe is the same.

LTE and 4G are different. 4G is HSPA+.

[snoopyandroid]

Just so I'm clear, I'm with Telus and at the top of my phone it says 4G is this LTE? It seems pretty fast, (way faster than my bb with H+)

I'm on Telus and where I lose LTE speeds, it shows 4G in the notification bar. You may be in an area that doesn't have a good LTE signal, so you're connection will drop down to 4G (HSPA+) speeds.

[The_Finja]

I'm on Telus and where I lose LTE speeds, it shows 4G in the notification bar. You may be in an area that doesn't have a good LTE signal, so you're connection will drop down to 4G (HSPA+) speeds.

So if i'm in an LTE area, it will say LTE then?

[snoopyandroid]

So if i'm in an LTE area, it will say LTE then?

Yes. Check with Telus to see if you're in an LTE area.

[Splange]

So if i'm in an LTE area, it will say LTE then?

Yeah. Basically the big cities: Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver should be LTE. If you're in a suburb you'll probably get 4G

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[The_Finja]

Thanks everybody, I'm just outside of Ottawa, and am on a fringe area so I wasn't sure.

[Splange]

I got my s3 about a week ago and I'm loving it. Whole different experience from blackberry.

But I don't see lte, only 4g, on the notification bar. At first I thought it was because I was in Mississauga, but apparently there's supposed to be Rogers LTE service there. I even noticed that when I was in Toronto the notification still said 4g. Any idea why?

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[Roboticz]

As posted above... if you don't have an LTE plan... you won't get LTE service.

[kb2755]

6GB? Isn't that expensive? Wow

Nah not if you catch carriers at the right time. Rogers just did a 6gb/$60 plan yesterday and Bell/Virgin followed up with another one today.

I switched mine to the latest one today so I should be getting LTE, just waiting for that icon to pop up might need to give them another call.

[MattSchollz]

Hello my Canadian brethren hehe this is kind of off topic but I figured it didn't warrant its own thread. Do you guys know of any retail stores that have actually half decent pricing on microSD cards? All the usual suspects (futureshop, bestbuy etc) are insanely overpriced. (see $40 for a class 10 16gb card). While I'm not opposed to buying online, my S3 is coming in the next few days and I would love to have the card right off the bat. If theres no good stores, anyone know of any good online Canadian retailers (or ships to Canada) with a sale right now or something? Thanks.

[reeneebob]

Hello my Canadian brethren hehe this is kind of off topic but I figured it didn't warrant its own thread. Do you guys know of any retail stores that have actually half decent pricing on microSD cards? All the usual suspects (futureshop, bestbuy etc) are insanely overpriced. (see $40 for a class 10 16gb card). While I'm not opposed to buying online, my S3 is coming in the next few days and I would love to have the card right off the bat. If theres no good stores, anyone know of any good online Canadian retailers (or ships to Canada) with a sale right now or something? Thanks.

I work at the Source, we just had a 16gb for 14.99 and a 32 for 24.99. Now I'm off for a few days so I don't know if anything has changed but look into it. They go on sale a lot too.

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[tapin4par]

Hello my Canadian brethren hehe this is kind of off topic but I figured it didn't warrant its own thread. Do you guys know of any retail stores that have actually half decent pricing on microSD cards? All the usual suspects (futureshop, bestbuy etc) are insanely overpriced. (see $40 for a class 10 16gb card). While I'm not opposed to buying online, my S3 is coming in the next few days and I would love to have the card right off the bat. If theres no good stores, anyone know of any good online Canadian retailers (or ships to Canada) with a sale right now or something? Thanks.

I got a lexar class 10 32gb at BB for $40. I thought it was a decent deal at the time, but it probably wasn't a great deal. I'm happy with its performance so far, though.

The sale price at the source is pretty good, provided that the performance is good.