Sprint Galaxy Note 3 Single Band LTE Only!

[k425]

Disappointed that it looks like the Sprint version of the Galaxy Note 3 will only have single band (1900mHz) LTE according the FCC docs. I mean I only have single band LTE on my Note 2 but knowing Sprint will launch the LG G2 with Tri-Band LTE it's a real bummer as I would have this phone for at least a year. I don't really care about Tri-Band as much as I care about at least having dual band LTE on the 800mHz band.

May have to look at T-Mobile instead.

Anyone else on Sprint considering looking at the Note 3 on another carrier in light of this news?

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[titaniumSS]

Disappointed that it looks like the Sprint version of the Galaxy Note 3 will only have single band (1900mHz) LTE according the FCC docs. I mean I only have single band LTE on my Note 2 but knowing Sprint will launch the LG G2 with Tri-Band LTE it's a real bummer as I would have this phone for at least a year. I don't really care about Tri-Band as much as I care about at least having dual band LTE on the 800mHz band.

May have to look at T-Mobile instead.

Anyone else on Sprint considering looking at the Note 3 on another carrier in light of this news?

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Look again. I posted it in another thread. It looks like the document identifies with the 800 and 1900mHz bands, just not the 2500mHz.

 

[Jocelyn84]

Look again. I posted it in another thread. It looks like the document identifies with the 800 and 1900mHz bands, just not the 2500mHz.

Assuming you mean the 900P, BC10 = CDMA not LTE and Sprint is the only carrier on the planet who uses BC10

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[MannyZ28]

Samsung made such a big fuss out of having every lte band, strange indeed. I am hoping for trial band, it's not like this is new technology since sprint already has the MiFi Hotspots with trip band.

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[Jocelyn84]

it's not like this is new technology since sprint already has the MiFi Hotspots with trip band.

What's even more strange is that the S4 mini & Galaxy mega will have it...


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[kingmac38]

Garwin said it will have it and dont have a cow .... inside info by the way the sprint version will be like the sph-910

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[Jocelyn84]

Garwin said it will have it and dont have a cow .... inside info by the way the sprint version will be like the sph-910

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He did not say that. He said he "feels" like 900P "may" be an engineering sample, but never said that was a fact.

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[Android Rage]

Look again. I posted it in another thread. It looks like the document identifies with the 800 and 1900mHz bands, just not the 2500mHz.

Why would the GN3 have 800mHz . 800 is a UK LTE band AFAIK.

 

[klokateer123]

Why would the GN3 have 800mHz . 800 is a UK LTE band AFAIK.

If I remember right, sprint shut down I think their Nextel towers and are refitting them with 800 mhz lte

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[dpham00]

Sprint 800mhz is band 26.Uk 800mhz is band 20 . This is similar to how Verizon and AT&T use 700 mhz lte, but different bands and are incompatible.

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[MannyZ28]

Garwin said it will have it and dont have a cow .... inside info by the way the sprint version will be like the sph-910

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Who is garwin? Got a link to that?

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[Jocelyn84]

Who is garwin? Got a link to that?

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He's a very reputable guy, leaked the Sprint Note 2 rdf last year, helps out with leaks from sextape, etc., but I'm still not totally convinced that the 900P is an engineering sample.

Link - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=45564709&postcount=32

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[MannyZ28]

So in this link from Engadget there is a link to the p model, and when you click on that to get the fcc PDF it only shows the 1900 band.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/11/samsung-galaxy-note-3-reaches-the-fcc-in-att-and-sprint-forms/

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[kingmac38]

Like garwin said the note 2 on sprint is sph-l900 with the way sprint names phones logically the note 3 will be sph-l910... the original Galaxy s1 was 700 the gs2 710 etc.

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[Android Rage]

Sprint 800mhz is band 26.Uk 800mhz is band 20 . This is similar to how Verizon and AT&T use 700 mhz lte, but different bands and are incompatible.

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I see. So am I right in saying that even though Sprint SGN3s will have the same LTE frequency band receiver as the UK LTE, they will not work in the UK?
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AR

 

[Raptor007]

Whose to say they can't address it with a software upgrade, it has every possible radio built in doesn't it.

 

[titaniumSS]

Assuming you mean the 900P, BC10 = CDMA not LTE and Sprint is the only carrier on the planet who uses BC10

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No, I meant 800mHz. BC26. Which will be up early next year supposedly. Hopefully sooner if they start turning things over.

 

[Jocelyn84]

No, I meant 800mHz. BC26. Which will be up early next year supposedly. Hopefully sooner if they start turning things over.

Where is BC26 listed in the test reports? I see Band 25 and nothing else...
https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/repo...ame=N&application_id=134996&fcc_id=A3LSMN900P

 

[titaniumSS]

Where is BC26 listed in the test reports? I see Band 25 and nothing else...
https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/repo...ame=N&application_id=134996&fcc_id=A3LSMN900P

I'm basing it off of the SM-N900R4 model, not the one they think may be the Sprint one. It's all speculation at this point though since they're just numbers floating around. It would be nice to actually see solid proof from them so we can actually have some information regarding our upcoming phone purchases.

 

[Jocelyn84]

I'm basing it off of the SM-N900R4 model, not the one they think may be the Sprint one. It's all speculation at this point though since they're just numbers floating around. It would be nice to actually see solid proof from them so we can actually have some information regarding our upcoming phone purchases.

I totally agree that certain things are speculation, but not everything there is only one thing to speculate about. The R4 variant doesn't have BC10 which is for CDMA 800 while the P variant does support BC10 and no one else on the planet uses BC10. That's a fact. Furthermore, R4 is US Cellular and/or C Spire, because they always use R. No speculation here.
As for what's left to speculate about, the P could be an engineering sample as has been posted by garwynn on XDA, but that's really all there is to speculate about. R4 does not belong to sprint, while P uses Sprint's BC10 band, which has never been used by any other company in the world.