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should I upgrade to SG3?

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finlayj

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I currently have a Motorola Phonton 4G with sprint.

I'm eligible for my upgrade, so I was thinking about getting the SG3, which seems awesome.

However, I live in Pittsburgh, which currently doesn't have 4G LTE...and it doesn't look like it's slated to get it until end of 2013 or later.

So it seems that keeping my Photon with 4G (from what I've been reading this is Wimax?) instead of getting a phone and being forced to use 3G, is the better option?

The Photon has been kind of annoying as of late, which is why I'm thinking of upgrading. But The 3G issue kind of sucks....may be worth waiting until Pittsburgh gets 4G LTE and I get whatever sweet phone is out then.

Would appreciate some feedback, torn here!
 
finlayj said:
I currently have a Motorola Phonton 4G with sprint.

I'm eligible for my upgrade, so I was thinking about getting the SG3, which seems awesome.

However, I live in Pittsburgh, which currently doesn't have 4G LTE...and it doesn't look like it's slated to get it until end of 2013 or later.

So it seems that keeping my Photon with 4G (from what I've been reading this is Wimax?) instead of getting a phone and being forced to use 3G, is the better option?

The Photon has been kind of annoying as of late, which is why I'm thinking of upgrading. But The 3G issue kind of sucks....may be worth waiting until Pittsburgh gets 4G LTE and I get whatever sweet phone is out then.

Would appreciate some feedback, torn here!
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you can always change PRL's and force your phone to use other towers ;) sgs3 is a badass phone... im jealous
 
That sounds great, I wish I knew what it meant.

Pretty much an amateur when it comes to really digging into phone programming.
 
finlayj said:
That sounds great, I wish I knew what it meant.

Pretty much an amateur when it comes to really digging into phone programming.
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Prl is just a list of radio towers your phone uses to determine what preference to connect.

You can change it to do things like always roam on a different (faster) carriers network like Verizon's.

I wouldn't really recommends going that route though. Too much roaming and sprint will void your contract and kick you off the network
 
Rxpert83 said:
Prl is just a list of radio towers your phone uses to determine what preference to connect.

You can change it to do things like always roam on a different (faster) carriers network like Verizon's.

I wouldn't really recommends going that route though. Too much roaming and sprint will void your contract and kick you off the network
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I figured it had something to do with that. Thanks for the info!

Any input on upgrading or not?
 
Here's my story.

I had the photon on Sprint in the far North part of the Dallas / Ft Worth metroplex. Reception was only 3g when I had reception. I had continual dropped calls. I stuck with it because I liked the Photon and I assumed all the Sprint competitors were similar in service.

It finally got so bad that I switched to AT&T and the S3. I still only get one bar, sometimes get 4G, but never dropped calls anymore. So I am pretty happy.

Although I liked the photon, I do like the S3 much better: much smoother, much better camera, better display. Battery life is much better although Photon was always looking for a signal on the Sprint network. S3 adapted to Mac much easier than did the photon.

My suggestion: dump Sprint and get the S3.

Mike
 
finlayj said:
That sounds great, I wish I knew what it meant.

Pretty much an amateur when it comes to really digging into phone programming.
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Just to piggyback on what Rx said, yeah, watch roaming. And I speak from experience when I say that they will kick you off if you roam too much. For my family plan it was 1GB that did it.

But I did just get the S3 and I like it so far. It's a nice phone. :)
 
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