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Godzilla07 posted:BGR making poo poo up? Well I never. Actually $20 Billion, with a B. Good lord. I like the iPhone and all but I just can't see that being a wise move. Apparently neither can the stock holders.
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PREYING MANTITS posted:Actually $20 Billion, with a B. I bet the 4g iPhone 5 exclusive story was planted by Sprint in the hopes it would save their stocks. It'll be interesting to see what happens next.
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It's $20 billion over 4 years and I believe I read that Sprint estimates it loses around 6mil subscribers a year through iPhone churn. So, that about lines up numbers wise. They better hope though that people are leaving JUST because of the iPhone and not due to a combination of factors or they are going to have a glut of inventory on their shelves.
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Inking a deal for over double the value of your company on one specific device seems, uh, rash. It's not at all surprising their stock is dropping. That being said, I'm getting a Sprint iPhone the second it comes out even though I'm going to be paying full price for it. Wooooooo.
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ddogflex posted:Inking a deal for over double the value of your company on one specific device seems, uh, rash. It's not at all surprising their stock is dropping. That being said, I'm getting a Sprint iPhone the second it comes out even though I'm going to be paying full price for it. Wooooooo. TLG James posted:Is the iphone announcement tomorrow?
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SeaborneClink posted:20 is what I've been told. This is 100% accurate, according to my latest bill that I'm currently looking at. On a related note...it seems that Sprint has decided to remove the 25% discount that I've had FOREVER (worked at UPS from 2003-2006) this month...which kind of pisses me off. Now, granted, I haven't worked at UPS in over 5 years and I've been enjoying a 25% discount anyhow...but adding $40 per month to my bill each month is kind of painful. Is there anything I can do to get this (or a similar discount) added back on? Would someone who has access to Sprint's system be kind enough to check and see what discount options I might have? Without this discount, I could go to Verizon on a similar plan for only about $15 more per month than I pay now (and at least I'd have better coverage and access to their absurdly fast LTE network)...
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SpelledBackwards posted:Based on the actual WSJ article everyone seems to be referring to, I don't think there's enough of anything to point to long-term exclusivity, but it's vague to begin with. Then again, why would Sprint even promise anything to Apple about sales unless it was the only way they could get Apple to give it to them in the first place? They were already going to make a CDMA version for Verizon, anyway. So that's the only reason I could see the rumor holding any kind of water. No doubt that it'd be a very short period of exclusivity if it's the case. Yeah, i seriously doubt its an exclusive. I assume the WSJ article is accurate though. They are pretty much always dead on (like everyone else is saying).
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ddogflex posted:Yeah, i seriously doubt its an exclusive. I assume the WSJ article is accurate though. They are pretty much always dead on (like everyone else is saying). What about a timed exclusive?
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nate fisher posted:What about a timed exclusive? That's all it could possibly be anyway, I'm thinking no. It's possible, but highly unlikely.
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Ozmodiar posted:This is 100% accurate, according to my latest bill that I'm currently looking at.
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Ozmodiar posted:This is 100% accurate, according to my latest bill that I'm currently looking at. Pm me details on where you work.
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The only way I can see this making sense is if they start selling iPhones through Virgin Mobile for the pre-paid market. If, on the other hand, they're merely trying to compete with Verizon and AT&T in the post-paid market they'll probably fail.
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gently caress, if I have to sell IPhones at 5% of normal commission this might screw me over. I really really hope not, i've been dreading iPhone commissions (aka, $0 commissions) for a month now.
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I now have an airave, if only I were smart enough to use it. I was hoping I could just plug it in wherever on my network, but if I read this correctly it needs to go between my cable modem and router? Do these things mess with NAT routing at all for games, mumble, jabber, etc?
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OldPueblo posted:I now have an airave, if only I were smart enough to use it. I was hoping I could just plug it in wherever on my network, but if I read this correctly it needs to go between my cable modem and router? Do these things mess with NAT routing at all for games, mumble, jabber, etc? I never bothered looking at the instructions, so if there are specific needs I might have just gotten lucky. Just plug it up, tape the GPS up to a window, and give it 4 hours to program.
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The sprint move is amazing. If they can hang on until their LTE network is good to go I think they'll do very well as the cheapest iphone provider with a solid network. If not, what will happen? Verizon could buy them easily but I'm not sure that would fly with regulators.
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Almost every time I want to listen to music on my 3d, the voice dialer pops open and starts calling someone, no matter what the music player is  I'm not even using a headset! Someone help
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sanchez posted:The sprint move is amazing. If they can hang on until their LTE network is good to go I think they'll do very well as the cheapest iphone provider with a solid network. You realize that's like 2 years away at least right?
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Appachai posted:You realize that's like 2 years away at least right? Yes, I was not thinking next week.
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Duckman2008 posted:gently caress, if I have to sell IPhones at 5% of normal commission this might screw me over. I really really hope not, i've been dreading iPhone commissions (aka, $0 commissions) for a month now. That would really really blow. Sprint looks like they literally bet the house on this though. Their stock is crashing and crashing. Hopefully this pays off for them or this will be their killing blow. I'm hoping so as I put some money into them.
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With the pace of hardware refreshing on the android side- a given considering how many manufacturers are in competition, I don't think the decision to go iphone will be as lopsided as people think. You figure apple releases hardware once a year, maybe even longer. If you have a dual core iphone 4S with a fast gpu that's 3.7 inches, and then an android phone that's 4.5 - 5 inches, quad core with a fast gpu and light/thin..the people that want iphones will still go iphone..but the tech enthusiasts who are on the fence will go with the phone with the better specs for the same price.
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Sprint is getting the iPhone. Now everyone can shut up about it I guess  EDIT: http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/04/sprint-iphone-4s-announced-available-october-14/ quote:As expected, Apple has added one more major US carrier to its iPhone lineup: Sprint. The Sprint iPhone 4S marks the beginning of the company’s “multibillion dollar gamble” to sell at least eight million iPhones a year and save itself from the downward slide that arguably began with the Nextel merger.
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So no bigger screen iPhone 5? Urg! Is Sprint at least getting the white iPhone 4Gs?
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nate fisher posted:So no bigger screen iPhone 5? Urg! Is Sprint at least getting the white iPhone 4Gs? EDIT: Just forget I said anything, I read your post wrong.
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So, anybody making odds on whether this 3g smartphone will qualify for $40 sero?
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Does this mean 3G will get even slower? 4G is nice and all but it's unusable unless you're outside/next to a window.
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I think I'll stick with my EVO3D instead of trying to flip it and inevitably having to front $2-300 on top of that for a full-price 4S. I'm glad there will be another choice once my next upgrade rolls around (assuming Sprint lasts that long!) 
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WoG posted:So, anybody making odds on whether this 3g smartphone will qualify for $40 sero? It should be allowed unless they change the policy again. You can get an ET or Evo3D so I don't see why not. You shouldn't have to pay the $10 data fee unless Sprint changes the SERO policy as currently only 4G smartphones require the data fee.
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ZeroAX posted:It should be allowed unless they change the policy again. You can get an ET or Evo3D so I don't see why not. You shouldn't have to pay the $10 data fee unless Sprint changes the SERO policy as currently only 4G smartphones require the data fee.
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Will Sprint's network allow multitasking on the iPhone such as AT&T's network (such as speaking on the phone while looking up maps) or is it limited like Verizon's network to one or the other? Edit: found out that is a limitation of CDMA. Oh well. GATOS Y VATOS fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Oct 4, 2011 |
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A FUCKTON OF WEED posted:Will Sprint's network allow multitasking on the iPhone such as AT&T's network (such as speaking on the phone while looking up maps) or is it limited like Verizon's network to one or the other? With the exception of I think the Thunderbolt on Verizon, which does some crazy thing no other phone does, that's a limitation of CDMA. Although you'll likely be able to do both if you're connected to a wifi network, just like on Android phones.
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brc64 posted:It looked like the 4S is now one standardized GSM+CDMA model, so I wonder if that means it can be activated between carriers. Get your iPhone 4S on Sprint, then when they crumble, activate it on Verizon? I doubt it between Sprint and Verizon, taking a Sprint one to AT&T or T-Mobile would be easy though.
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ddogflex posted:I doubt it between Sprint and Verizon, taking a Sprint one to AT&T or T-Mobile would be easy though.
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ddogflex posted:I doubt it between Sprint and Verizon, taking a Sprint one to AT&T or T-Mobile would be easy though. Sprint and Verizon wont let you activate each others phones, but if Sprint went out of business (or was purchased by Verizon) I think they would take you.
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Unless it's locked from North American GSM providers, like other Sprint world phones are. They are locked period a lot of times, call them and they unlock it. (Unless this is magically different for an iPhone.) edit: ZeroAX posted:Sprint and Verizon wont let you activate each others phones, but if Sprint went out of business (or was purchased by Verizon) I think they would take you. Well, yeah, if you were already a Verizon customer I assume they would let you continue to use your handset. If Sprint just went out of business, I doubt it though. Honestly Sprint isn't going to implode in the next year anyway, who cares. ddogflex fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Oct 4, 2011 |
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So are there any good roms for rooted EVO 3ds? For the first time in probably ten years of owning a cell phone I actually dropped mine and the screen cracked pretty crazy. I was looking for a way to just take an image of the broken one (which amazingly still works like theres no problem), and dump it onto the new one. Apparently the only way to do this is by rooting the phone. Worth it to root the 3d? Or should I just manually re-set the whole thing up?
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I upgraded my phone a year ago when Sprint still had yearly upgrades with Premiere and I needed something to get me by after my Pre broke. Since they've cancelled the Premiere one year upgrades, what's the best way for me to get a subsidized price on the new iPhone? My current ETF is pro-rated down to $120 or so, so it's make more sense for me to switch carriers and pay the fee than it would to pay full price (if they even let me.) Is there some way to pay the ETF dollars to get out of my current contract and then re-contract with Sprint again? I'd really rather stick with Sprint but I assume that there's just no way to do so and get a new phone, and I really despise the phone I'm on now.
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