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join:2002-03-19
Utica, MI | You need to pose as 1000 different people and post a 60 page thread on the Sprint message board to get that one fixed. |
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glinc
join:2009-04-07
New York, NY | sucky sprint We've been having issues in our stores months before the iphone was even out. All our stores demo's and customer phones barely getting 400Kbps down and barely 200Kbps up. |
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join:2000-06-03
Oakland, CA | said by glinc:We've been having issues in our stores months before the iphone was even out. All our stores demo's and customer phones barely getting 400Kbps down and barely 200Kbps up.
According to the masses of android users, they're not experiencing any problems at all and the network issue is iphone related only. I don't have sprint, so I couldn't speak for it either way.
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| said by Neosum:According to the masses of android users, they're not experiencing any problems at all and the network issue is iphone related only. I don't have sprint, so I couldn't speak for it either way.
I have a Sprint Android and someone at work has Sprint iPhone. My phone performed fine in 3G while his was 500Kbps or worse in same location. |
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join:2001-03-21
Smyrna, GA | reply to Neosum
said by Neosum:According to the masses of android users, they're not experiencing any problems at all and the network issue is iPhone related only. I don't have sprint, so I couldn't speak for it either way.
I wouldn't say things are all rosy. I have noticed a significant drop in speed on 3g in Atlanta, Miami and Chicago over the past year on my EVO. But nothing as bad as the new IPhone users complain about. But it is enough of a drop to cause notice to me also. |
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join:2000-07-19
Ashburn, VA
kudos:1 | People stand in long lines on launch day because the iPhone just works. In Sprint's case, it just barely works. |
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Re: sucky sprint Over the past year I have seen my overall speeds decrease. I used to consistently get over 1 meg down and at least 700-800k up on 3G. Now I get 300-400k tops down and about the same up. I have been using Android for the past 2.5 years or so.
If someone took a poll, I would bet overall across the board, Sprint's speeds on all devices are lower than they were 2 years ago. I have friends with air cards that switched to Verizon because Sprint slowed down so bad. |
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rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO | If it's not the newtork.... Whether it's software (hopefully) or hardware (bummer), who was responsible for testing? Did folks just assume it would work properly?
Apple is supposed to be notorious for perfection and while the iPhone is a good product (at least on other networks), if this is not just an overloaded Sprint network, who is responsible for dropping the ball? Was Sprint given advanced access to the phone and were they were supposed to extensive nationwide testing or is this Apple's fault for turning out faulty firmware/drivers or whatever? |
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join:2001-01-13
Glen Head, NY | Sprint Thread I have been on the Sprint forums but the link in this article is one I missed. There have been quite a few speed related threads.
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Re: Really??? They stand in line because they want to feel special that they got the phone before someone else. If you are one of those morons who stand in line for 2 days then this is just part of it. |
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Re: If it's not the newtork.... It's hard if not impossible to predect how thousands of phones will behave in the hand of a customer. |
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said by rradina:Whether it's software (hopefully) or hardware (bummer), who was responsible for testing? Did folks just assume it would work properly?
Apple is supposed to be notorious for perfection and while the iPhone is a good product (at least on other networks), if this is not just an overloaded Sprint network, who is responsible for dropping the ball? Was Sprint given advanced access to the phone and were they were supposed to extensive nationwide testing or is this Apple's fault for turning out faulty firmware/drivers or whatever?
As I said in the other thread.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE SAMSUNG EPIC 4G
they denied denied denied and then finally when enough people got pissed, they fixed it with a software update!! |
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No, actually hardware performance is completely testable, and given its a apple the software should not have many surprises either.
I suspect the release was rushed and software and hardware were not tested properly. |
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Re: Really??? those days of 2 day lines to get an iphone are over, most people just preorder it now and while the store is probably busy your not going to stand in line for a long time. |
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Re: My speed The upload seems like a problem, maybe verizon is having some problems on their end too with the 4S or maybe it's just a bad speedtest, it happens sometimes.
unfortunately .95 down actually isn't all that slow for verizon 3G
anymore I average about .9 mbps down with spikes as high as 2.3 and dips as low as 600kbps depending on the time of the day.
I can't wait till verizon offers LTE here the 3G network in central NJ is strained pretty bad.
I have a HTC thunderbolt so I'm ready to go with 4G as soon as it's available, unfortunately it's currently about 5 miles away from us. |
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join:2010-03-26
Rosston, TX
kudos:5 | iPhone Specific? I was going to upgrade my two phones to the Sprint iPhone or one of the Samsung Androids.
Now I'm waiting. |
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join:2002-01-22
00000 | reply to battleop
Re: If it's not the newtork.... said by battleop:phones will behave in the hand of a customer.
Is this a subtle reference to the iPhone antenna gate? |
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