I'm seriously considering ditching the E4GT and get the nexus

[sndplace]

Switch if you want to. sounds like you need a phone and coverage that meets your needs for today. Sprint will meet your needs but it will take time. If you really cant wait it out by all means switch. Having this great phone like the Epic is worthless if you cant use it to its full potential. Verizon is a good company but cost are high for most. (like me). I have been with sprint for 10+ years and i am happy with them and my Epic. Check your data usage with sprint if your average is less then 4gbs a month the you will be fine. Good luck . Either way you look at it its still a Sammy Phone.

 

[Gator352]

What I don't get is this:

When you run speedtest it sends packets to a particular server and back to your phone measuring its throughput thus giving you theorhetical speed your phone is capable of. In no way does that measure real world performance. Sure, 48Mbps is a hell of a lot faster than 1.5Mbps but if you visit a site that's set with limited bandwidth (most sites do) to keep costs down, both phones will down load that site at the same freakin speed. If one is faster than the other, then that is limited to it's processor and GPU rendering of that particular site. The same principle applies to phones and PC's alike with broadband service.

Hook two PC's to a router with BB service. One PC has a Phenom II X6, 8MB pc1600 ram, ATI 5870 GPU, and a 128MB SSD with an indalink controller. The other PC has a pentium 3 proc, 2MB pc800 ram, Rage Pro 128MB graphics controller, and a 500GB WD with 2Mb cache. Now, run them both at the same time at the same site. Sure the faster PC is going to load the site faster but the other PC is going to load it too. The difference might be 2 to 5 seconds. Now run youtube. Sure the faster PC is going to load it faster but the slower one will load it also. Both will play...but neither should buffer, and if one does, it's because the packets being received are taking longer to register. But BOTH PC's are receiving the packets at the same speed......!!!

Point is, if a phone loads a freakin webpage 2-5 seconds slower than another, so-what. If 2-5 seconds of time feels like an eternity, or you need a phone that downloads an app 3 seconds before you actually download it, then I suggest you write your congressman asking for instantaneous broadband service.

For what its worth OP, I get 400kbps to 800kbps on 3G (no 4g here) and youtube rarely buffers unless it's at peak times. I suggest you do your research and find a carrier and phone that suit your needs catering to youtube because it's obvious Sprint's not doing it for you.

Peace.

 

[wynand32]

In the past I've jumped in to defend Sprint, particularly given the unlimited data thing. But for the last 60 days or so, I have to say: Sprint is screwing the pooch, badly. And I've heard the same from many people around the country.

In my neck of the woods, there are times (as in, blocks of hours) where I get around 40kbps (yes, that's 40 KILObits per second) down and even less up. With ping times of 250ms or greater. This is in a suburb of LA where 60 days ago I regularly got 1Mbps or greater up (which is fine for me on my phone).

Sprint got hit hard by the iPhone, and they haven't recovered yet. I've been with them for 13 years, and this is the first time I've seriously considered dumping them. And that would mean spending over $1000 in ETFs across all of my lines (no, I most likely won't do it, because that's a load of cash, but I get so ticked off sometimes I do seriously consider it).

 

[pushdrops]

ET4G update - increased speed?

Your mainly ditching Sprint. I am really hoping their switch to their new Network will bump up the speeds considerably, it's pretty bad where I am too. If I get close to 1 MBit, I am ecstatic!

Here during our trial if we got over 150 kbps down we were lucky - Sprint's map shows that they've made updates here in the past months.

I wonder if it is better now? I wanted to activate our ET4G's from the trial (we ended up keeping the phones , use them WiFi only until we sell or ever activate them <thanks to the horrible speaker and camera on the GNex our plan to upgrade our VZW phones to the GNex failed, wish VZW offered the GS2!>).

But Sprint told us that we'd have to sign a contract to activate the ET4G's - I thought that since we own them outright, that they could activate them and we could use them month to month. Bummer as I don''t want to get into a contract just to see if the ET4G will be usmaybe (mayb the recent update will help , the ET4G update as well as the tower capacity updates noted in this area - we are 3G only FYI).

It's super frustrating that we love our ET4G's but thunusablenuseable on the Sprint network in our area hasn'tZW hasnt' released a similar phone (how could the GNex have such a super weak speaker and such a lesser quality camera - we use the ET4G around the house as our basic camera as it's pretty good, we rarely get out our digital camera unless it's something really worthwhile to get the best pic possible, what impresses me the most is the ET4G camera under low light conditions).


I haven't clearly seen if the recent update to the ET4G has improved data speeds or not, can anyone confirm here?

 

[fofjjsr]

friend of mine got the nexus today. i did a speed test vs my EGT and got smoked - 2.5mbps vs 48mbps.

lol troll

 

[fofjjsr]

I am someone that has had Sprint (multiple times), At&t, Verizon (multiple times), and have come to this conclusion. In my area especially I have noticed little difference in coverage. My verizon phone that I had up until about 5 months ago, got 1 or 2 bars at my home, my sprint phone got roaming to 2 bars in my home. Want to know the difference? I now have 5 bars in my home, because Sprint sent me a booster. I tried getting the same from Verizon, and they would do nothing for me. So I was being charged more for crappy service. Now, I will admit when I sometimes ventured to other parts of the country that were out of the norm, My Verizon phone got service where people that were with me on other carriers got little to zero service. This to me will be fixed in the future. If you are going to want the newest greatest phone everytime a new one comes out, you are going to be carrier jumping constantly. Your phone is basically out of date before it is even released. Remember most of these phones where already released over seas.

I worked as a cell phone salesman for over a year. It was nearly the death of me (not literally). I would watch as all the newest phones with the coolest toys came in, always wanting the newest. I worked in a store with multiple carriers as well (Sprint, At&t, Verizon). What you need to do is use the 30 day test period, figure out which carrier works best in the areas you are most and stick with that carrier. New phones come out monthly it seems, so it's better to find the carrier that works best for you, and stick with that carrier. The cell phone wars are crazy intense now days. I love it personally, but as a tech geek, it can be hard to stick to something lol. I am on Sprint, love my E4GT, and am sticking with it for the 2 years (Hopefully =P). My mistake is usually getting a nice phone when the price goes down. I got the EVO 4g when it was cheap (free actually at Radio Shack), but found out a week later it was EoL! So I sucked it up and got the Galaxy S2 Touch because I new it was just out and would see updates for a while anyway. I should have researched more before I make the decision to get the EVO first. Hope some of this makes sense.

 

[wayner1]

I had the nexus on the Verizon network and I also have the an eg4t on sprint, as well as a gal tab 10.1lte Verizon, and I can stay even though the veriZon netwk is faster, the speed of WiMAX vs lte isn't worth what you will end up paying in overages. It is truly rediculous to charge that much to be able to use a faster network. Here is another surprise for long time vz users... As of July 8th regardless if u have unlmtd data in order to keep it u will have to pay full price for the phone like $759 for a 16gig iPhone 4s "3G" if u don't want to pay full price you will be capped on data. I work for a vz retailer and one of my best friends is corp for them. Obviously vz is not as loyal as their customers ha!
As far as the nexus goes google doesn't support the CDMA version only the unlocked gsm version, the battery life on my eg4t is 2x longer and doesn't have near as many bugs, I was stoked about the new nexus but even under clocking the batt was still horrible, also the sprint version of the nexus is a16gig where vz is a 32gig. I use apple everything @ home and have full compatability with my eg4t and it syncs with almost everything the nexus won't even sync with FB and even though the processor is a 1.5 ghz it still isn't as good as the eg4t nowhere close. If u want ics just flash the 4.0.4 stock ics rom that was leaked or wait it out and get a quad core phone. Thx hope that's not too much info but I hope it helps.

 

[Downtown Taco]

I'd keep my E4GT over the Verizon Nexus any day. Camera means a lot to me, plus I think the E4GT is a little faster. And my 3G gets about 2Mbps...yes, 2. Not 0.2...no...solid 2. Sprint is working on their network.

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[Dark_Knight2]

I had the galaxy nexus for 2 days before I ditched it for the ET4G. I have never looked back sense.

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