Showing posts with label Sprint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sprint. Show all posts

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Sprint Sucks

        With Verizon wireless being the only carrier in DC having full 3G service (EVDO) underground really makes me wonder as testing all carriers Cricket was last and found a tie with AT&T and T-Mobile and Sprint was third but the thing is Cricket is a prepaid network so they are kind of an exception.
        
         Now with Wmata telling us that there will be service at all rail stations by 2012 and they told us that in 2002 which devestated me as Sprint does not have service even at some of the busiest stations and T-Mobile offered service but it was not consistent. However AT&T has had service at either every 2 stations or every station but here is why they both tie sometimes when using AT&T I was unable to make phone calls but with T-Mobile it was great service just wish it were consistent. Sprint had service in areas where lots of tourist are like Smithsonian station but data speeds were absolutely ridiculous litterally they were fast for EVDO A. With either carrier they won't disappoint even Sprint as they are upgrading their 3G network which is always nice.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

All mobile phones are different

  With Qualcomm and Imagination Technologies and NVidia releasing new GPUs for mobile phone and tablets which GPU files is good. The mobile phone has made huge improvements like Android 4.1 bringing Tripple Buffering for the UI to the point were now it feels as technology advances too fast and the one of the worst things are with a mobile phone is that we can't upgrade hardware like in PCs. This time I will be showing which mobile will be best and what phone to look for.
   
    Ok so you maybe a little angry that you may have bought an HTC EVO 4G and it can't game so here is why it can't game it has an old and fairly low end Adreno 200 GPU and with the EVO's high resoulution (480*800) that does not make a great pair but with a 1GHZ snapdragon CPU it may seem quick using Android. Now let's take a phone like the Samsung i9000 it has a quick and once undefeated PowerVRSGX540 GPU which if it has been lag fixed it can play any game in the market when it was released.

    Now into dual core handsets like the Samsung I9100 which has Samsung's own Exynos processor and it is still today very fast and over clocked @ 1.5GHZ will be close tot beating the US Galaxy SIII. The Galaxy S2 the Exynos variants have Mali-200MP which is in the International Galaxy SIII but is over clocked but another difference with the handset is it has a full 1GB of RAM but has the same resolution has the previous Galaxy phone. Now into the LG optimus 2X which has the Nvidia Tegra 2 CPU but one thing that bugs me is that lots of people don't know how fast Tegra chips are, but they are not benchmark setters in tablets with high resolutions. The Optimus 2X has an ULP GeForce GPU and has 8  GPU cores so it is certainly no slouch. Now that the Galaxy Nexus is out it has the same GPU in the Galaxy S phones but it much faster since it is over clocked. But the Ti-OMAP processors aren't in any way benchmark killers but are not slow.

   Now into the Samsung Galaxy SIII international which has Ssmung's own Quad core Exynos processor and over clocked Mali-400MP GPU and however only has 1GB of RAM opposed to having 2GB in the US galaxy phone. However the ONE X having a super fast CPU and probably the Adreno 225 GPU. Now the last device the Nexus 7 having a Quad core CPU and a 8 core GPU ULP GeForce so comment but no spamming.
 


Tuesday, October 30, 2012

LTE VS HSPA+

             Is "4G" really worth it and what types of "4G" have the advantages over others and explaining the different types of technologies.

            Now every major Network offers 4G whether it is LTE or HSPA+ or even the old WiMax technology that networks like Sprint and Clear never really updated. So LTE stands for Long Term Evolution and HSPA+ stands for Evolved High Speed Packet Access and WiMax stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access. So now we are familiar with the different types of 4G we can tell the pros and cons.

            HSPA+ is mainly used in the US by T-MobileUSA and AT&T however with AT&T they use HSPA+ for devices with LTE to "back-down" on however the difference is with T-MobileUSA is AT&T has HSPA+ speeds up to 21 megabits instead of T-MobileUSA has DC-HSPA which has a downlink of a theoretical 42 megabits. With AT&T still selling some of HSPA+ devices you will want to keep this in mind not every device can get those speeds devices like the Samsung Infuse 4G can only get up to 14 megabits and those are theoretical megabits. However the HSPA+ has a very huge advantage and a very huge disadvantage with HSPA+ their isn't a huge battery drain rather with LTE having to turn on an additional radio now the disadvantage every time their is an upgrade to HSPA+ you have to upgrade you're device to get up to those speeds on HSPA+ which does get annoying but if you have a device like Hercules the T-Mobile Galaxy SII you are fine. With HSPA+ only networks if you don't have an HSPA+ signal you will back down to EDGE sadly. Ask you're carrier what is are theoretical speeds this device can achieve.

             LTE which is used by every major carrier except for T-MobileUSA which has plans to deploy it by the summer of 2013 the difference with LTE and HSPA+ is that LTE works on lower frequencies like the 700MHZ band and Sprint using it on 1800MHZ band. The difference is with higher frequencies is that will have support for a higher capacity and with a lower frequency is that in areas like a basement will be more likely to hold an LTE signal. With LTE giving great speeds but it does require an additional radio for those speeds with LTE it does require CDMA networks to get redesign their voice network. With LTE devices don't have to get onto their 2G networks you can get onto EVDO if you have Verizon or Sprint or HSPA+ if you have AT&T.
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