Who plans to go HD2? - Page 14

solarflarex · #**131** (**permalink**) 12-29-2009, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by rorytmeadows

The question is, if you get a new phone, will you please get the hell out of the TP2 forums?

I think that most TP2 users that visit these forums will go to the best device on the market;

So in effect as you say this forum will likely empty in a big way. Is the tp1 forum still crack'n?

**Mr.KLeen** · #**132** (**permalink**) 12-29-2009, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by rorytmeadows

The question is, if you get a new phone, will you please get the hell out of the TP2 forums?

whoa!

rorytmeadows · #**133** (**permalink**) 12-29-2009, 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by solarflarex

I think that most TP2 users that visit these forums will go to the best device on the market;

So in effect as you say this forum will likely empty in a big way. Is the tp1 forum still crack'n?

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Originally Posted by jimecm

whoa!

haha, I was half kidding, but do we really need more threads in here about how the phone you have is better than the one in the title of the forum? We get that so much here!

**Mr.KLeen** · #**134** (**permalink**) 12-29-2009, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by rorytmeadows

haha, I was half kidding, but do we really need more threads in here about how the phone you have is better than the one in the title of the forum? We get that so much here!

lol yup all the time

furiousgtz · #**135** (**permalink**) 12-29-2009, 10:41 PM

I want one. On Sprint.

yang704 · #**136** (**permalink**) 12-30-2009, 12:28 AM

Where you get information that the HD2 will come out on sprint Jan 6th?.........I been dreaming of owning one and sprint is my carrier. Please let it be TRUEEEEEEEEE

cfong · #**137** (**permalink**) 12-30-2009, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by SaltyDawg

GSM is NOT worse than CDMA. Maybe in your area CDMA might have better coverage o0r something, but the technology is not even close.

Some examples:
1: On our Touch Pro 2's the dialer has a hold button while the GSM version has a conference button. Why? Because CDMA doesn't support it.

2: Simultaneous voice and data on GSM, not CDMA. It sure was nice when I could open Bing and find a movie and restaraunt- while talking to my wife about what she wanted to do. Or watch the game on my slingplayer and not get interupted when my wife calls. Or send an email while talking to someone and have them tell me they got it before I get off the phone.

3: Cell tower location. When you open Bing or Google Maps on a GSM phone it knows your location before the app even finishes opening. There is no waiting for the GPS to lock on, or using the last saved location untiul the GPS locks on. It just uses the cell tower to locate you instantly, which it can't do on CDMA.

4: Better phones because of the world supports the same technology.

5: Easier to change phones. Just pop out your SIM card and pop it into the new phone. No need to get an online activation or call. No need to buy a phone that is in some database and get forced onto a certain plan or whatever. No need to make sure one phone is turned off for a certain amount if time while the new phone gets activated. Just pop in the SIM card and go.

6: Speed. AT&T has the fastest 3G in the nation right now if you have coverage. Their only issue is way too many users. But if there aren't way too many users in yoru area, AT&T will have the fastest 3G right now- both upload (which isn't even close) and download. And T-Mobile is just about to launch their nationwide 21 meg HSPA+ 3G network. So they are about to go from worst to first in that catagory. They have been silently upgrading for a while, but have yet to "flip the on switch" yet. When they do, look out.

Seriously man, GSM blows CDMA out of the water. The only way anyone can say CDMA is better is if they have better CDMA coverage in their area (and I mean WAY better, because if it's close GSM will still win).
Did you read that recent gizmodo report where they tested 3G networks in multiple cities and AT&T had by far the fastest? Lok at it like this, AT&T has been claiming they had the fastest 3G for a while now. Nobody has called BS on them. Verizon, rather than call BS on them, instead went after their coverage. So even Verizon is agreeing with me- if you have good coverage, AT&T will be better.

I am on Sprint because it is cheaper, not because I think it's the best...

GSM is a variation of TDMA (remember TDMA? AT&T used to use that). I think it the long run, CDMA will prevail. If you are interested, here is an interesting read.

http://www.arcx.com/sites/CDMAvsTDMA.htm

The tower map or SIM issue has nothing to do with the technologies per se. SIM can be added to CDMA phones if so choose the carrier. China has both GSM and CDMA carriers. I believe the CDMA carrier chose to put SIM (or perhaps it is called by another name) in the CDMA phones too.

birddseedd · #**138** (**permalink**) 12-30-2009, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by SaltyDawg

If the HD2 had a keyboard and tilting scxreen, I'd be there. T-Mobile prices are actually better than Sprint's in a lot of cases, and GSM is better than CDMA too. So I'd have no problem switching to T-Mobile.

I have no interest whatsoever in getting a phone that doesn't have a keyboard though, so the HD2 doesn't do it for me.

I agree with most. I love the keyboard, tho i kinda wish i had a tp1 kbd on my tp2.

but as far as gsm being better? umm, unless you are in the 3 cities or so that have 3g, you get a dialup comparable speed. where as my 3g cdma here gets 1.5 meg down.

my house internet isent even that fast.

but im not giving up my keybard, and 8 hours playign video with a bigger display and twice the proccessor, sorry but no. i wont believe that untill i see it.

yang704 · #**139** (**permalink**) 12-30-2009, 12:51 AM

Please let it be true that HD2 is coming to sprint on Jan 6th. I been dreaming of owning one.

**BlackDynamite** · #**140** (**permalink**) 12-30-2009, 12:58 AM

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Originally Posted by cfong

GSM is a variation of TDMA (remember TDMA? AT&T used to use that). I think it the long run, CDMA will prevail. If you are interested, here is an interesting read.

http://www.arcx.com/sites/CDMAvsTDMA.htm

The tower map or SIM issue has nothing to do with the technologies per se. SIM can be added to CDMA phones if so choose the carrier. China has both GSM and CDMA carriers. I believe the CDMA carrier chose to put SIM (or perhaps it is called by another name) in the CDMA phones too.

Yeah, on CDMA it's not a SIM card, but a RUIM card. I really wish CDMA carriers used them here. CDMA has no chance of prevailing unless the rest of the world adopts it. As long as Europe is exclusively GSM, and the USA is half GSM, with Canada moving to mostly GSM, CDMA is going to be like the betamax of wireless technologies.