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I'll keep an eye on Wal-Mart's pricing on the Evo 3D. They had a better price on the Optimus S, and I may be looking at a second line.
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| # ¿ Apr 13, 2011 16:58 |
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Man, the Replenish is an excellent looking phone. I wonder if Virgin Mobile will pick up a variant...
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| # ¿ Apr 16, 2011 13:54 |
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Duckman2008 posted:The Playbook for sprint (wifi only still) got delayed again release wise. For those very few holding their breath over it. The screen's great on that device. The rest is middling at best.
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| # ¿ May 4, 2011 05:41 |
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Duckman2008 posted:You can port immediately,just keep in mind her phone wont work till the sprint phone comes in of course. Optimus is $20 I'm store, $36 activation fee. Or $0.01/$17 activation at Wal-Mart.
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| # ¿ May 10, 2011 04:05 |
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900ftjesus posted:EDIT: Also can Best Buy handle EPRP yet? Unless EPRP is significantly different from SERO, Wal-Mart can handle it.
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| # ¿ May 15, 2011 05:18 |
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Myrddin Emrys posted:Hell, even the Nexus One got Netflix support in the first wave. There's a hacked APK over at XDA that removes Netflix's device check. I've gotten it to work on an Optimus S and a Nook Color without issue.
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| # ¿ May 28, 2011 06:04 |
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ShowTime posted:Well. This is very tempting. I was holding out for the Evo 3d because of power, but $100 difference might do it. Must think about this. Tatsujin posted:Woah, I had no idea the Nexus S was 99$ upgrade on Amazon. This makes me a lot happier. PM me if you decide on this, guys.
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| # ¿ May 29, 2011 02:42 |
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ShowTime posted:Why? You have a PM. 
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| # ¿ May 29, 2011 03:19 |
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Chappy posted:Honestly, for a year time frame you should just get a local phone and SIM from there, and use some VOIP solution for her to talk to the family. I thought I read somewhere about someone getting a Magic Jack with a US number, taking it overseas, and people were able to call for free. Wouldn't Gmail calling work for this as well? Or do they filter billing by geolocating the IP?
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| # ¿ May 29, 2011 23:26 |
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Cross-posting from my thread in Coupons/Deals--Amazon has a sale on all of their 4G phones this Memorial Day. Sprint Samsung Epic - $0.01 Sprint Samsung Nexus S - $49.99 Sprint HTC EVO White - $59.99 Sprint HTC Evo Black - $79.99 Sprint HTC Evo Shift - $49.99
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| # ¿ May 30, 2011 15:03 |
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Ugh, on some of the phones there's a disparity between Existing/New customers and some there aren't. It kinda sucks, really.
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| # ¿ May 30, 2011 18:32 |
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The Motorola XPRT Worldphone is on Sprint for $129, Amazon for $99. Looks solid, but I have to wonder about rooting capabilities. Isn't it just a retooled Droid Pro?
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| # ¿ Jun 6, 2011 23:57 |
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Good news everyone! Evo 3D is up for preorder on Amazon for $179.CharlesM posted:How are Motorola phones now? Do they have a better reputation? From what I've heard, the Droid Pro/XPRT is good (albeit the dev community is lackluster) Matlock fucked around with this message at Jun 8, 2011 around 16:15 |
| # ¿ Jun 8, 2011 16:06 |
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Typically, third parties like Amazon will allow you to do an in-place upgrade--that is to say, upgrade sans any changes to your account.
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| # ¿ Jun 9, 2011 02:13 |
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Duckman2008 posted:Sprint dumbphone options kinda suck, the best one is the rumor touch and it has been out over 1 year now. The only dumbphone I could recommend over the TP2 is the lotus elite, and sadly that phone is 6 months discontinued. The Reclaim is a great dumbphone.
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| # ¿ Jun 15, 2011 04:32 |
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Duckman2008 posted:Engadget has been hit or miss since Topolsky left. At least the Evo 3D didn't have 26 mentions of the iPhone in its review.
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| # ¿ Jun 16, 2011 03:30 |
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Leathal posted:Any of you guys that preordered from Amazon get a shipment notification yet? Today is the ship date, I believe. I can confirm that none of the six preorders I facilitated have shipped yet.
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| # ¿ Jun 24, 2011 14:42 |
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Amazon just dropped the price on the Evo 3D. $99 for new customers, $179 for existing renewals. No activation fee, and $5 for Amazon Kindle/MP3/Video content, each.
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| # ¿ Aug 19, 2011 04:35 |
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Duckman2008 posted:Tidbits, but the Reclaim is a lovely slider texting phone, the Replenish is likely the phone you are talking about. Blame sprint for being obnoxious with the drat names. Sorry bro, but the Reclaim is a pretty good phone with great: reception, battery life, keyboard, and web browser on a dumbphone.
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| # ¿ Aug 26, 2011 15:56 |
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Yep.
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| # ¿ Sep 10, 2011 05:11 |
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datajosh posted:The $150 thing just means you'll get the phone at Sprint's new customer price and not $150 off the advertised price of the phone. Also the price that Walmart is offering is only for new customers. Is it? I got my Optimus S for less than a buck on-contract there, and it wasn't a new customer contract.
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| # ¿ Sep 11, 2011 01:40 |
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While I'm thinking of it, my phone's battery life has died off severely and likes to overheat frequently lately. I barely get 5 hours with very little use now. I don't have TEP, it's still under warranty. What's my options?
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| # ¿ Sep 11, 2011 05:12 |
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td4guy posted:It sounds like you have a rogue process gone wild and eating all your CPU and battery. You need to track it down and/or do a hard reset to see if that makes the problem go away. If that doesn't fix it, then yeah, look into a warranty replacement. I'd assume it's that, figure I'll do a hard reset tonight. The OEM battery got to the point where it maybe got 45 minutes charge after about 6 months of owning the phone, a couple months later the Seidio replacement is dying quickly too.
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| # ¿ Sep 11, 2011 16:17 |
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After restoring the phone, the battery life has gotten somewhere closer to acceptable. I'm thinking that after the iPhone 5 and ICS news I might just go on eBay and buy a Photon. It just looks and feels nicer than the EVO or EVO 3D to me.
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| # ¿ Sep 14, 2011 03:31 |
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Sir Bobert Fishbone posted:What news is this? I'm under the assumption that there will be news about Ice Cream Sandwich devices, as well as the probability of the iPhone 5 on Sprint, within the first two weeks of October.
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| # ¿ Sep 14, 2011 03:59 |
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I figure the eBay prices of the Photon will take a hit on those sorts of announcements. 
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| # ¿ Sep 14, 2011 04:04 |
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I have no idea why anyone would get an Evo or Evo 3D over a Photon right now, Motorola actually did everything right for once.
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| # ¿ Sep 16, 2011 18:00 |
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big mean giraffe posted:Because the Evo 3D is an awesome phone and Sense 3 is really good? Plus the Evo 3D is completely unlockable. The Photon is faster, has better reception, more on-board storage, and has a camera for the same price. Plus, with Google owning Motorola it'd be hard to ignore the likely better support over time. I see no point in unlocking a CDMA/4G phone at this point, given that ROM support for 4G weaves in and out of workability all the time.
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| # ¿ Sep 16, 2011 18:16 |
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brc64 posted:Say what? The WiMax driver the CM7 team put together is better than the official HTC one. There have been issues with that driver as recently as August; including permissions issues, the signal strength icon going missing, and frequent dropoffs.
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| # ¿ Sep 16, 2011 18:34 |
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big mean giraffe posted:The Photon isn't "faster" The 1GHZ Tegra 2 in the Photon is undisputably a more powerful processor/GPU combo than the 1.2GHZ Snapdragon and Adreno 220 in the Evo 3D. Although that's more an indictment of the Snapdragon than anything, because the Adreno is the better GPU by far.
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| # ¿ Sep 16, 2011 22:09 |
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I own a LG Optimus S and haven't owned a Motorola or HTC phone since 2008. Before my current phone, I had a Samsung Reclaim . Given not only benchmarks, platform-agnostic comparisons, and several reviews, the Photon comes out cleanly ahead in pretty much every metric other than "entertainment" usage.
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| # ¿ Sep 16, 2011 23:15 |
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RagingHematoma posted:How do you like the Optimus S? It's good, but after owning a TouchPad and knowing that I could be easily doing more, I want more power.
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| # ¿ Sep 17, 2011 02:43 |
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atomicvocabulary posted:this would be awesome, faster 3g and iPhone would be a very good thing for sprint There's only a couple Rev B ready phones, but wouldn't a firmware update bring Rev A phones up? Matlock fucked around with this message at Sep 18, 2011 around 02:08 |
| # ¿ Sep 18, 2011 02:04 |
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Evo 3D and Epic Touch support Rev. B. The Vogue was Rev. 0 and was upgraded via firmware to Rev. A.
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| # ¿ Sep 18, 2011 18:38 |
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At least they didn't get as burned as Verizon did with the Kin, haha.
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| # ¿ Sep 19, 2011 04:06 |
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Optimus S got an OTA update to Gingerbread. Keyboard/dictionary is borked, and none of the apps that the update log say would be updated (camera, task manager, download, power management) were actually updated.
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| # ¿ Sep 20, 2011 00:42 |
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Yeah, if you own an Optimus S, do not install the OTA update. It's known to be broken, and Sprint says they're waiting for a fix.
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| # ¿ Sep 20, 2011 02:16 |
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brc64 posted:If Sprint knows it's broken, why hasn't it been pulled? Or has it? I'm confused. "There's nothing we can do, it's a known issue, we're working on a fix with LG." That's what I've gotten from them. http://community.sprint.com/baw/thr...tart=0&tstart=0 Huge thread on the subject, lots of issues. I hard reset the phone while on my landline talking to them, 2.3.3 remains on the phone regardless. I have to take it into the store to have them hard reset it and try not to charge me because I don't have TEP. This is basically to the point I'm tempted to take the Samsung Reclaim out of the drawer and start using it again.
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| # ¿ Sep 20, 2011 02:38 |
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Yeah, I pretty much figured that but went through the motions so the discussion would move forward. I'm not going to root.
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| # ¿ Sep 20, 2011 02:43 |
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Three hard resets of frustration later, and the autocomplete finally works. The keyboard is still hilariously tiny, and none of the updated/bundled apps they mention in the changelong are present. This is Samsung level bad. I wonder what they can even do to help me at this point. Matlock fucked around with this message at Sep 20, 2011 around 03:33 |
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