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How you liking it?
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How you liking it?
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Cost and dealing with the carriers.
I doubt ATT, Verizon, and Sprint want a highend phone for $350 at full price. They want to lock you into that 2 yr contract with a high ETF fee.
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Absolutely love the Note 2. Beast of a phone, and if you don't mind the size, I don't see any realistic cons with it. I personally never use my phone as an actual 'phone' anyways, as I'm constantly texting, email, web browsing, etc. So the size is a non-issue for me, I love the expanded real estate on my screen for doing everything than else than actually talking on it. Plus, if I really wanted to talk on it, I'd just invest in a nice bt headset.
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CDMA(Verizon and Sprint) users NEED LTE.
3G speeds on Verizon and Sprint are terrible compared to T-Mobile and ATT.
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^ that makes a lot of sense. I thought Sprint had its own 4g network though?
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LTE isn't a deal breaker is what I meant. What I like most about the iPhone and Nexus is that they're unskinned and work the way Apple and Google intended for them to work respectively. Also that they both get updates right when they come out. Decisions, decisions. Thanks for your input.
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ATT 3g speeds were complete basura when i had them so if that's quicker i can't even imagine 3g on cdma networks.
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Let me see that the camera quality looks like on the Nexus 4 and maybe I'll get one.
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I think it's an awesome deal if you want to go straight talk or something similar, ^ after reading that article "no LTE" sounds like another plus to me especially if you're concern with updates. I don't have LTE but I don't know pple who rave about it....
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Yeah i think where nexus devices really shine is when you go unlocked and go with tmobile pay as you go, straight talk, solavei, simple mobile, etc.
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depends on the city your in. ATT 3g is horrid when your in over populated cities like NYC because the voice and data goes over the same channel, so people being on the phone and using data can bog down the network, while CDMA yea its slower and yea you cant use voice and data at same time, but you dont have to worry about heavy pop cities destroying your data speads. Heck try to use an ATT phone at a sporting event, its unusable literally.
LTE can handle the load much better and right now ATT doesnt have many people on their LTE network compared to a VZW so in alot of cities you can get 40mb down but when the network is full you will be avg 10-15 mb down
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this
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same could be said for those wanting faster processors just to open angry birds faster
i was on verizon lte in houston for 3 weeks before i canceled and took my iphone back to my unlimited tmobile account
heres the BEST speed test result i got under lte, no other test came close to that
13.26 mbps down 2.72 up ping 58
tmobile is edge speeds but they are opening those towers and theres a few surrounding my hood already but not in my neighborhood so at my house (where im on wifi im on edge)
heres the BEST but consistently the same result i got on tmobiles 3g tower close to home
9.96 mbps down 3.70 up ping 29
verizon lte was nothing special for me in houston, i kept my tmobile unlimited plan open while i tried verizon out bill was way expensive for 1 line, would be different if i could add my other lines and have the bill be the same which is what i thought that shared crap they do is, but no they charge 40$ extra per every smartphone and 30$ for every dumb phone
i pay 112$ for 3 lines on tmobile, all have myfavs, unlimited text, mobile to mobile, and my line has unlimited data for 20$
tmobile forever!
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was looking into the note 2 when it came out but these tmobile reps are turning me away from it saying that i need to change my grandfathered g1 unlimited data plan to their newer, more expensive $30 unlimited data plan and that's without texting. also said that i won't be getting "4G speeds" if i don't change my data plan which i'm pretty sure is BS.
nexus 4 might be the phone for me since it'll be around the same price as the note 2 and i'll be able to keep my plan without having to deal with the BS tmo gives me. i also have insurance on my line, will it cover the nexus 4 since it's not sold by tmo? i've been searching online and some have said no since it's not directly offered through google and some have said yes but won't be replaced with another nexus device
nexus 4 might be the phone for me since it'll be around the same price as the note 2 and i'll be able to keep my plan without having to deal with the BS tmo gives me. i also have insurance on my line, will it cover the nexus 4 since it's not sold by tmo? i've been searching online and some have said no since it's not directly offered through google and some have said yes but won't be replaced with another nexus device
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And that is why a GSM phone that uses both ATT and Tmobile bands doesn't need LTE, the 3G speeds are great.
CDMA carriers need LTE because their 3G sucks
It's funny seeing iphone users use LTE as a knock against the Nexus 4 when they JUST got it and 95% have never used it because it's not widely available at all.
HSPA+ is more than enough for GSM phones.
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Nexus 4 WILL have LTE, just not this (year) version.
There will be an LTE Verizon, AT&T and Sprint version coming out next year.
There will be an LTE Verizon, AT&T and Sprint version coming out next year.
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early next yr? lol by then the s4 train will be rolling and the Nexus 4 will suffer the same fate of the Galaxy Nexus
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Source?
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LTE versions are just speculations @ the moment.
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I guess they waiting for the Nexus 4S.
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I read somewhere that T-Mobile will be offering the nexus 4 on contract for 200$
yup
i think if you buy your nexus 4 from tmo instead of google tmos insurance will cover it
im not sure if tmo will cover it if you buy it unlocked from google
i could be wrong though
http://bgr.com/2012/10/29/nexus-4-nexus-10-release-date/
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