Well.. this sucks for EVO 4G owners to be (including me)

[p-slim]

Originally Posted by jbearamus

i didn't say it wouldn't need a different antenna i said it wouldn't necessarily need a more powerful one, just closer tower coverage when comparing 2.5ghz to 700 mhz. and yes to switch back and forth you would need a different antenna tuned to the different frequency. however the issue isn't frequency its technology, LTE isn't exclusive to 700 mhz, if sprint/clear want run LTE through 2.5ghz they can, which is where the software update comes in. i have no idea if its true or not but Clear insists that they can move from WiMax to LTE with a software update on the network but i've never heard anyone say anything about updating software on phones. so i wonder if its even possible, and even if it is i doubt sprint would float the idea because if they upgrade everything they can't sell ya a new phone



were you just talking about returns in general?

i was talking about phones when it came to returns. I didn't know phone service had a different return policy, everything in cali is 30 days, so if you only got 14 days on certain things and 30 days on others i didnt know that.

yeah they will be able to upgrade their network to wimax, but you are correct phones in general will need more then a software update, especially since sprint can sell you another phone like you pointed out.

[jbearamus]

Originally Posted by p-slim

i was talking about phones when it came to returns. I didn't know phone service had a different return policy, everything in cali is 30 days, so if you only got 14 days on certain things and 30 days on others i didnt know that.

probably also depends on the company although when it comes to larger companies they probably just use the same rules across the company to keep things uniform. for example @ radioshack EVERYTHING has 30 day return except tmobile phones and that's just because of how tmobile wants to run their business

[gTen]

Well some states have different rules and enforce 30 day minimums for returns...not sure specifically for California.

As for compatibiity..TD-LTE shares a lot of the things with LTE but at the same time with wimax...it is compatible with FDD-LTE antenna...the main reason why wimax is not compatible with LTE is from the FDD-LTE spec and not the TD-LTE spec so some compatibility is possible...

Also TD-LTE can run in much smaller blocks of spectrum in comparison to FDD-LTE.