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You the the HTC Supersonic is eventually coming to Verizon?
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IOWA
Mr. Logic Pants
Incorrect.
First off, it has WiMax 4G, which is SPRINT/CLEAR only.
-Verizon DOES NOT have 4G.
It will not "run better" on Verizon. Sprint and Verizon utilize the SAME 3G network. The SAME NETWORK. I repeat, THE SAME NETWORK.
And actually, Sprint has been rated #1 Reliability by PCWORLD.
(This may have something to due device wise, although Verizon was behind by .2% or something like that.)
QrafTee
Android Expert
Hey White Knight of Sprint, you need to calm down.
The fact is that Verizon has the BEST coverage NATIONWIDE right now. So unless you're in one of Sprint's limited 4G coverage zones, you're SOL. Second, Verizon is already testing their LTE networks (the first out of the U.S. carriers deciding to skip WiMax altogether to upgrade their networks to LTE).
The funny thing is that you talk like 4G is a panacea that somehow magically gives Sprint the best coverage nationwide or something which is simply not true... and you act like 4G is a Sprint-exclusive feature. The other carriers WILL get it and they're all electing to go straight to LTE and avoiding WiMAX--but WiMAX can be upgraded to LTE easily, blah, blah, we don't care.
However, the whole ATT/Verizon getting rid of unlimited data plans is another matter; that might make me switch to Sprint after my contract expires.
IOWA
Mr. Logic Pants
And that's only because they bought Alltel, and since there were quite a few stipulations to that deal, Sprint gets to use Verizon towers. So they basically have the same exact coverage. And yes Im in a 4G area.
QrafTee
Android Expert
Well good for you White Knight, we'll talk again when they decide to roll out in California.
IOWA
Mr. Logic Pants
Won't be long. Especially if this walmart tower deal goes through.
QrafTee
Android Expert
Yeah, my friends on Sprint must be doing something wrong because they're not "leeching" properly. We have our phones our and my old school Samsung Alias gets signals where their smartphones and dumbphones don't... Mind telling me how to make their phones "leech" off of my network so I can pass it along to them?sprint and verizon share towers... so verizon having the best coverage means sprint does too,thanks for letting us leach off of you
QrafTee
Android Expert
The HTC Ultrasonic.
shawn487
Android Enthusiast
you know i dont usually agree with a sprint fanboy who wishes he could be on verizon (why else would he always be in the verizon forum) but a year from now there will be something out that will make us not even consider buying a phone that has been out for 6+months and is about to be outdated by a new 1.5ghz phone
IOWA
Mr. Logic Pants
I really wouldn't consider myself a "fanboy" of anything really. I weigh out the facts, and make a logical deduction. I then share that deduction with others. And if i wanted Verizons locked down phones, and rape-you-up-the-hoohaa prices, I would be with them, plain and simple.
On a side note, Verizon has always been at least one step behind Sprint Tech-wise. Plus I like wholly american owned companies to boot.
QrafTee
Android Expert
Actually I'd have to agree with shawn487 on this one. You haven't hid your bias towards Sprint and you really don't have to, but don't try to make yourself out as unbiased guided only by logic and facts.
IOWA
Mr. Logic Pants
Just because I show bias, doesn't mean that bias isn't fact/logic based.
I have to admit I am jealous of Sprint users. I love my droid, but this phone is close to flawless spec-wise based on current technology other than not having an amoled screen. I don't see phone screens getting much than 1 or 2 tenths of an inch bigger as they wouldn't fit in a pocket. The only advancement I can see in the future is a faster processor, discrete 3d chip, and a higher res amoled screen. Built in over the air HDTV would be great as well.
durangojim
Android Enthusiast
To me, it would seem that it would be relatively simple for HTC to make a version of this phone for VZW. I'm no tech, but it seems that they could easily replace the wimax chip and just include a standard CDMA chip in it and release the exact same phone on VZW. If I were a betting man, I'd say that would happen in the fall/winter. By this time next year I'd say 80% of smartphones will have a 4.3" screen, just like the majority of them now have 3.7" screens.
QrafTee
Android Expert
Well of course a phone that hasn't yet been released is "close to flawless spec-wise based on current technology." When the EVO 4G is released, that'll no longer be true and another phone will be "close to flawless spac-wise based on current technology." That's how technology works... not in our favor.
Would you honestly want something bigger than the 4.3" screen it already has? That would barely fit in my pockets at that size, I cannot imagine 4.8" or 5.0" devices....
kyler13
Android Expert
I wish this was true as I SO want the EVO, but you're wrong. Sprint roams on Verizon's entire network, but they don't get 3G data speeds. I believe you're reduced to 1xRTT as evident by the Sprint coverage maps that pretty much spell out sub-90kbps data rates in most roaming areas where a Verizon phone would get the full EVDO rev A. The bottom line is that if you could port the ESN into Verizon's database, the EVO would run a hell of a lot better on Verizon's network with the exception of the handful of 4G markets. I'd love for you to prove me wrong as that would only make me THRILLED to pick this phone up, but alas, the evidence suggests I'm dead-on correct.
kyler13
Android Expert
Verizon's coverage area in general encompasses Sprint's. The only way this would matter would be the 0.0001% of the time that a Sprint tower is positioned such that it reaches a small pocket where Verizon doesn't. Hardly equates to running better on Sprint, considering you'd have to deal with the massive handicap of 1xRTT data over such a broad area of the country. Nice try, but I'm not convinced this minor detail makes it "better".