i doubt it'll be on verizon

5/31/2013 8:42:25 AM

got my sprint htc one rooted and cm10.1 put on it this morning. this thing is crazy fast.

5/31/2013 9:39:59 PM

New android phones always are...holla at me in like 14 months.

5/31/2013 10:23:55 PM

I won't have this in 14 months. I get a new phone about every 6-8.

5/31/2013 10:33:47 PM

Very nice

6/1/2013 9:21:12 AM

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"i doubt it'll be on verizon"

also with all the rumors of verizon potentially terminating all month to month unlimited plans this year I can't bring myself to pay retail for a phone. With my luck I'll buy it and 2 weeks later i'll get boned, just gonna have to sign a contract

6/1/2013 10:32:07 AM

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"New android phones always are...holla at me in like 14 months."

i've had my Note 2 since October and it's been way laggy in the last month or so. i'm assuming androids are like desktop OSes where you can just restore to factory settings and it'll be fast again? any good way to clean up an existing android to make it faster?

6/1/2013 11:28:14 AM

remove apps, go into app settings and clear the app local caches, use mobile sites in place of apps where ever possible ie: facebook

6/1/2013 12:20:47 PM

The FB app is annoying me.

Everytime I upload pictures using it, it strips any tags, including people or locations. Anyone else able to tag photos, upload them, and have those tags show up?

6/1/2013 4:42:17 PM

^^^Got my Note 2 around the same time. Faster than when I got it. I use Nova Launcher. It's probably the fastest launcher out there. Also "BetterBatteryStats" is a great program for seeing exactly what is waking your phone up (screen off) and draining your battery. Click the "partial wakelocks" and it will list them in order. Watch your ram as well.

6/1/2013 6:23:09 PM

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.vine.android

Vine for Android...link works but it's still hashing out issues w/ the device compatibility detector

6/3/2013 10:24:36 AM

anyone still have a google tv? I got one because they're a lot cheaper than a slingcatcher and I set my thermostat from bed with it. I'd really like to be able to use the directv app on it, but it always crashes (had to sideload because device was incompatible) but other people are able to get it to work on various unsupported tablets. any idea what the hold up may be?

6/3/2013 10:35:24 AM

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"also with all the rumors of verizon potentially terminating all month to month unlimited plans this year I can't bring myself to pay retail for a phone."

the word in forums from big red corporate folks who appear to be in the know suggest that it will be gone by december...my contract expires at the end of this month and i'm just gonna keep my bionic until they kick me off unlimited

at which point, i'm hoping RW's new 4G phones will be available and i can move over to them (or enable the GSM radio in my bionic and go with ST)

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"i've had my Note 2 since October and it's been way laggy in the last month or so. i'm assuming androids are like desktop OSes where you can just restore to factory settings and it'll be fast again? any good way to clean up an existing android to make it faster?"

are you rooted? do you have custom recovery installed? admittedly, i run into more issues because i'm a ROM junkie, but i've found that clearing the cache, dalvik cache, and fixing permissions will make my phone feel like a fresh install...without losing any of my data or apps

if nothing else, set cachecleaner NG (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.lsartory.cachecleaner.ng) to run every day...if you have titanium backup, you should be able to clear the dalvik in android (rather than going through recovery)

6/3/2013 10:44:17 AM

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"anyone still have a google tv?"

i still got my revue. i use it for nexflix and throwing youtube up on it from my ipad, mainly because it's miles faster than switching inputs and waiting for my xbox/playstation to boot up

i want to upgrade to a newer one, since the revue is struggling at this point, but i'm waiting on something with demonstrated compatibility with 4.2.x.

[Edited on June 3, 2013 at 11:12 AM. Reason : i might just go with an xbone instead though]

6/3/2013 11:12:02 AM

anyone want to buy a 16 gig, white nexus 4

ill trade for a black one

6/4/2013 9:25:45 PM

If they kick me off unlimited, and put me on 2, I will be irate.... Considering there's a number of people on 4gb for the same price from other promos.

6/5/2013 8:35:14 PM

^ they likely won't just kick you off unlimited, but force you into one of their new plans, so you'll probably be paying more, too

6/6/2013 8:20:08 AM

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"anyone want to buy a 16 gig, white nexus 4 ill trade for a black one "

Dont like the white?

6/6/2013 10:55:19 AM

who ever really likes white?

6/6/2013 10:57:43 AM

the htc one in white is nice, but it's more of an accent there

6/6/2013 11:36:37 AM

Just upgraded from the S2 to the S4. I love this phone. Its amazing.

6/6/2013 10:15:51 PM

So the HTC One is coming to Verizon, we just have no idea of when right?

6/8/2013 2:11:49 PM

Summer. Lol.

I'm tempted to get the one... Guess I'll see what the landscape looks like. I hit my 2 year mark in December. I plan on paying full retail to maintain unlimited, unless they plan to axe it.

6/8/2013 2:43:54 PM

Any predictions on when the next Nexus phone (5?) will come out?

6/10/2013 3:01:38 PM

you'll be able to buy one next year

6/10/2013 5:27:16 PM

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"I plan on paying full retail to maintain unlimited, unless they plan to axe it. "

I really wouldn't, at this point it's when not if ....

then you'll be in the hole for no reason.

6/11/2013 4:15:07 AM

yeah, don't bother including unlimited in your decision...it WILL be gone, if not by the end of the year, then in Q1 of 2014

6/11/2013 10:15:18 AM

My 2 year is around then... I basically plan on waiting to see what they decide do.

My hope is any remaining unlimited data plans they force out, will get a slightly more favorable tier. I upgrade now I'm at 2gb same price, meanwhile they have plenty of 4 GB customers at that price. Not holding my breath.

[Edited on June 11, 2013 at 7:12 PM. Reason : ..]

6/11/2013 7:10:02 PM

Sprint finally announces their LTE network is live in Raleigh, even though I've been getting it in most places for a few months now...

6/17/2013 5:59:08 PM

yeah i noticed it live in greenville and fayetteville this past week.

6/17/2013 7:21:24 PM

has their coverage improved?

6/17/2013 8:40:50 PM

4G works in my hood now but only when I am outside. But it works!

6/18/2013 11:02:42 AM

good to hear...my wife's republic phone certainly doesn't the coverage my verizon one does, but the republic model makes up for that...at least one of the new phones RW is releasing at the end of the summer will be 4G, so between that and the wifi use, i can get behind an abysmal sprint network

6/18/2013 11:05:47 AM

i'd call it decent coverage. there's still room for improvement, and if s4gru is correct, then there's still plenty of towers left to be put up before they are done.

the only thing that annoys me is when my phone takes forever to fallback to 3G when a 4G tower isn't responding, but maybe that'll go away now that things are "live"

[Edited on June 18, 2013 at 9:29 PM. Reason : still doesn't fix people trying to call me and it never ringing my fucking phone. ]

6/18/2013 9:28:59 PM

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"12:25 PM Samsung co-CEO JK Shin previously confirmed that the company is preparing to release a new version of the Galaxy S4 in South Korea that will be compatible with LTE-Advanced networks. The new technology will make the smartphone capable of delivering data speeds that are twice as fast as other models. According to a leaked owner manual, per RBMen, the Galaxy S4 LTE-A model will be upgraded to include a new, more powerful processor. The device will be equipped with a 2.3GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor, compared to the 1.9GHz quad-core Snapdragon 600 chip found in the original Galaxy S4. The smartphone’s dimensions and other components were left unchanged. The Galaxy S4 LTE-A is expected to launch in South Korea later this month. "

http://bgr.com/2013/06/20/samsung-galaxy-s4-lte-advanced/

6/20/2013 1:28:08 PM

and for those of you who, like me, don't know the difference between LTE and LTE-A: http://gigaom.com/2011/02/08/lte-advanced/

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"LTE-Advanced is the next iteration of the Long Term Evolution Standard and can offer up to 1 Gbps speeds over a wireless signal for fixed mobile broadband on the download side and 100 Mbps for actual mobile broadband (like when you’re in your car or on a train.) On the uplink side it can offer up to 200 Mbps for fixed mobile broadband. this is good for sending your content and videos back up to the web. These theoretical speeds aren’t likely in the real world, because to deliver 1 Gbps speeds an operator would need 40 MHz of spectrum and 8×8 MIMO antenna solution, or about 100 MHz of spectrum without using MIMO, which is a lot of spectrum and eight antennas that would have to be crammed on both the base station and inside the device. However, because MIMO increases the capacity of the airwaves, it’s a question of when, not if operators will use it. MIMO, or Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output, is an antenna technology by which LTE-Advanced will boost its capacity. MIMO is a way operators can use multiple antennas to enable more users to share a network because MIMO provides a more granular way for carriers to slice up and allocate spectrum between devices and the base station. The future iterations of LTE will also be self optimizing and self-healing, meaning they will have the means to determine when a cell site goes down and be able to adapt to such a disruption. They will also be able to respond to changes in demand by taking corrective action such as adding power to a base stations or decreasing their radius of coverage. LTE-Advanced will also include support for operators that want to use multiple bands of spectrum in their network. For example, for faster 3G networks Ericsson is helping T-Mobile and others use chunks of spectrum that aren’t next to one another to deliver the service. LTE-Advanced bakes that capability right into the spectrum. That’s a good thing, because for true gigabit wireless, operators will need lots of spectrum as I noted. The standard won’t only support spectrum diversity, it is also likely to support easier handoffs between different networks in later iterations, such as a seamless transition between 3G, 4G and even Wi-Fi. That helps operators offload traffic for users and provide better quality of service. LTE-Advanced will also boost capacity. The standard has the features mentioned above and others that will cram more bits into each hertz of spectrum, much like some Container Store associate can shove a truckload of goods into a $2,000 set of plastic shelves. That kind of cramming means it’s cheaper to send your emails, videos, photos and whatnot over mobile broadband networks and will enable carriers to keep up with growing data demand without going into the red. On the backhaul side, the standard allows for some over-the-air backhaul via a macrocell or other base station, which doesn’t improve speeds or the number of bits one can cram into a megahertz, but should help operators reduce the cost of laying additional fiber or other circuits for backhaul. The standard should be approved this year in March. By the end of 2013 through 2015 gear makers will start adding LTE-Advanced features to their products. But it will be 2017 or 2018 before operators will start deploying it widely in end-user devices according to telecommunications equipment makers. There will also be continual upgrades to the standard which adds new features."

6/20/2013 1:34:26 PM

^lol I was about to add a link for that, as I too had to look it up.

6/20/2013 1:51:02 PM

is VoLTE deployment supposed to coincide with LTE-A, or are we supposed to see that sooner?

6/20/2013 1:52:48 PM

so, you use up your month's data allowance in 16 seconds?

6/20/2013 2:00:23 PM

^ glorious

6/21/2013 2:37:29 AM

Verizon customer here. Should I go with the GS4 or wait for something else that's about to come out?

6/21/2013 11:33:44 AM

i haven't even kept up with what's on deck

6/21/2013 1:01:29 PM

i haven't even kept up with what's on deck

personally, i wouldn't want to purchase a new, subsidized phone until there's one stock with KLP...but that won't be until the fall, i imagine

6/21/2013 1:02:02 PM

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"so, you use up your month's data allowance in 16 seconds?"

ha

6/21/2013 1:05:19 PM

NM

[Edited on June 21, 2013 at 1:30 PM. Reason : KLP = Key Lime Pie]

6/21/2013 1:29:31 PM

rumors are KLP will be released in october, along with the motorola X phone and the nexus 5: http://vr-zone.com/articles/exclusiveandroid-5-0-to-come-in-late-october-will-be-well-optimized/36950.html

the thing is, there's always something better just over the horizon...right now, though, if i were in the market for a top-of-the-line phone and i was willing to be locked into a 2-year contract by letting the carrier subsidize the price, it would most certainly be a KLP unit

the differences between ICS and JB weren't huge (which was expected), though they were welcome...the differences between JB and KLP will likely be more significant (especially in terms of performance)

if it were 6 months away, that'd be one thing...but (personally), i'd hold out for 4 more months

6/21/2013 1:57:26 PM

Wow I want this:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/06/samsung-ativ-q-ativ-3/

Android and Windows. 3200×1800. 2.84 pounds and is 13.9 mm thick. 9 hours of battery life. I've been wanting a tablet/laptop convertible but wanted Android for the Tablet portion and Windows for working. This would be perfect.

[Edited on June 23, 2013 at 1:13 AM. Reason : s]

6/23/2013 1:12:42 AM

^i wonder how much that thing is gonna cost.

6/23/2013 9:44:46 PM

Eh probably $1400-1600. If it were $1000 I'd buy one. I doubt it though. Asus has this one as well:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7017/the-asus-transformer-book-trio-atom-haswell-android-windows-8

Interesting approach. Instead of using a single Haswell chip for both Win8 and Android it uses Haswell for Win8 and an Atom chip for Android.

It's interesting that Asus and Samsung are trying to gain traction in the convertible/touch screen market by including Android. I'd totally use Windows for work and Android for everything else.

6/23/2013 11:11:44 PM

hardware is nowhere near the same, but you can add Windows 8 to an HP Touchpad

you can put any damn OS on that thing

6/24/2013 12:03:29 AM