Why would Sprint release a high end phone on the network they are phasing out? I'm totally fine with it. I picked up my EVO3D this past June and will be ok to wait until the next Nexus or beyond for my next device.
No New Awesome Android Phones for Sprint
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Agree 100%. I'd rather have slower and unlimited than fast and only 2GB. Like you, I use at least 500MB a day. Long commutes make podcast listening a must. And I don't listen to terrestial radio.
In Philly, 4G has been getting better though suprisingly. I got 7 down last week at home.
They may not have anything we know of right now, but a few months ago people were saying the same thing about Verizon and saying Sprint had the best Android lineup. Its cyclical. Sprint releases their big phones over the summer. We've gotten the 3d, Photon, SGSII, and the iPhone in the past 5 months. That's not too bad
Exactly. Where is the drought the OP is speaking of? I think that is more than enough phones for 6 months. A new phone every 3 months is ridiculous.
So someone tells you that you your mobile data speeds are now faster than what you have in your home, but you cant use much of it. Just doesnt seem fair to me.
To say you get what you pay for is not always true. Just earlier this year and many years before sprint was able to roam on vzw network for free, they had a roaming agreement with vzw (you would be on vzw tower and not ever know) but something happened and ever since the coverage has suffered. Speeds are still the same on 3g when in a good coverage area (from what i have experienced). Yes 4g wimax sucks when your on the go, it is unstable. But in my home my 4g wimax works great, i usually get 2-5mb down wich is fine unless i am downloading 5gb file (which i do not on my phone) but if i wanted to i could and not have to worry about paying a fortune in overages.
sprint certainly is not for everybody, it all depends on whats important to you. Being able to use your smartphone and take advantage of ALL of its data intensive features (most of the time), or being on the fastest, most reliable network, but not being able to fully take advantage of what your smartphone has to offer without paying excessively.
I may end up just biting the bullet and pay vzw 180+ a month (total with voice and text) for a 10gb plan, but i have til october to decide and see what improvements sprint actually do vs what they say they are going to do this coming year.
I tell you what if the att acquisition of tmobile does not go through, tmobile's netowrk will be looking mighty sweet, they will get roaming agreements with att, use of some aws network spectrum (whatever that is) for the 4g services. So they could end up having really good coverage at a really good price. I personally think its always a bad idea to have less competition in an already effd up market.
Really?!? There is a huge discrepency in the number quality Android phones (I'm talking 1Ghz or above) availble between Verizon and Sprint. And some people don't want a 4.52-inch screen or 3D as their choices for a dual-core phone.
Sprint:
Epic Touch
Photon
EVO 3D
Nexus S
VS.
Verizon:
Atrix
RAZR
Rezound
Stratosphere
Revolution
Bionic
Droid 3
Droid X2
Thunderbolt
Incredible 2
Galaxy S II
Glaxy Nexus
I would buy a Galaxy Nexus from Sprint and there's no reason why they couldn't sell it with an LTE chip that can be turned on when their network is up and running. They've done things like this before.
That is my point.
There are plenty of quality devices out there, it's just that they are mostly on or coming to Verizon now.
RAZR and Galaxy Nexus are good examples.
RAZR and Galaxy Nexus are good examples.
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Officially Sprint has stated they have NO plans to remove unlimited data from Smart Phones.
Officially = Sprint, not someone in your store, not someone on the internet that you don't truly know even works for Sprint.
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Devil's Advocate: plans can change, and do so all the time.
Non-devil's advocate: I'm hoping it's just as the mailers state, that they're eliminating everything they can't afford to maintain so that they can hang onto the one costly selling point they need to keep.
Sent from my hoe. Forgive the typoes; it's an Epic.
Just to be fair I feel I should point out
Atrix - AT&T
Incredible 2, Revolution, and Thunderbolt are single core phones. Sprint had the EVO way before Verizon got theirs with the Thunderbolt. Sprint also has a handful of single core Android phones, the Marquee, EVO Design, and some Samsung phones.
The Stratusphere is a rehashed Epic
The RAZR and Rezound just came out
The GN hasn't come out
Verizon does not have a GSII
You forgot the Charge.
That being said, Verizon does have a couple better phones right now, but there are other parts to Tue equation. Verizon and Motorola have been in bed together since the Droid, which is why they have all those phones on Verizon. They just started up with sprint with the Photon. Also, Verizon has been pumping out 4g phones this year.
“One of the beauties of carrying the iPhone is it extends the period of time and increases the likelihood of us maintaining unlimited data longer because it uses our network so efficiently,”. That quote was from Hesse, you might know him as the CEO of sprint.
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That's not at all what it says. But hey who am i to take a statement of uncertainty for what it is.
he might as well have just said "definitely most likely but i cant say for sure". lol
no wait. i am wrong, according to Hesse's statement there is a plan to limit data, but there is no exact date. so there is some level of certainty, that they will eventually implement some sort of data cap.
And your point? Quantity over quality? Those phones are almost identical for the most part. Besides the Razr and the GN, what is so special about that lot?
I'm not ok with incremental updates anymore. There are too many incremental and mediocre phones being released by HTC, MOTO and Samsung every 3 months. Droid Bionic and a month later the RAZR? Why? It's Nonsense...
Check Sprint's twitter and youtube. They just (last week) doubled down AGAIN on unlimited data.
Sprint has no plans to limit unlimited data. And if they do, most will be grandfathered in.
If they finally do away with unlimited altogether, that's the day I give up my smartphone and get a wifi tablet and a flip phone...
Sprint has no plans to limit unlimited data. And if they do, most will be grandfathered in.
If they finally do away with unlimited altogether, that's the day I give up my smartphone and get a wifi tablet and a flip phone...
Hesse has said many times in the past that somewhere down the road they may have to get rid of unlimited data, but they were going to hold onto it for the foreseeable future and as long as they possibly could.
That's not being fair at all since I included the single core 1GHz phones on Sprint as well. It doesn't matter what phone came out first, since this thread is about the number of choices and how there is no news of any other high performance Android phones coming out on Sprint.
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