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06-03-2007, 08:37 PM
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Join Date: 07-19-2004
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Location: Indiana
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PDAPhone: Samsung SCH-i760
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Carrier: Verizon Wireless
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Originally Posted by Geckotek
True, it's incremental, but after using it I believe you'll notice the difference. I just got a Rev A PCMCIA card.....it's a winner.
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I could see using Rev A for a PC Card, but in the phone, the speed rendering pages is limited by the device, not the connection. I hardly notice a difference over WiFi and EVDO when in a good signal area. 90% of my connection is e-mail anyway, and I only tether when I absolutely have to, which is about 10 minutes a month.
Rev A is the next thing to help mobile connections, but for the incremental step it gives on the actual device, it's not needed "yet". I think as we use more and more mobile video and video communication this will change, and it's good that the providers are increasing their network ability to handle it, but I think we can wait until the next device to have Rev A included.
In the data agreement with Verizon, they don't allow any multimedia communication anyway, unless it's on their system, so even with the bump, we still "can't" use it anyway....
I personally am looking for a stable, slim, functional, long battery life device for my next phone. Let's shoot for that first before working about a 200 kbps bump in speed from 900 to 1100...
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06-03-2007, 08:40 PM
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Join Date: 06-10-2006
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Location: Dallas, TX
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PDAPhone: 3G iPhone
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All I'm saying is, if we've gotta wait anyway, I hope we'll get something out of it. Even if some ppl don't think it's that much of an advantage.
At the very LEAST, I hope they are doing more QC. I'm getting really sick of buggy electronics. 
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06-03-2007, 08:47 PM
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I recently upgraded to Rev. A cards for our laptops. In normal use I can't say I've noticed a speed difference between the two. Even on wi-fi my i730 doesn't seem significantly faster that EVDO Rev. 0 (presumably due to bottlenecks) so unless a phone was significantly redesigned I doubt Rev. A will be a noticeable improvement in daily usage.
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06-03-2007, 09:04 PM
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Join Date: 12-18-2006
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Location: Portland, OR
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PDAPhone: Samsung i730 WM5
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Originally Posted by ethergnat
I recently upgraded to Rev. A cards for our laptops. In normal use I can't say I've noticed a speed difference between the two. Even on wi-fi my i730 doesn't seem significantly faster that EVDO Rev. 0 (presumably due to bottlenecks) so unless a phone was significantly redesigned I doubt Rev. A will be a noticeable improvement in daily usage.
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The only problem is as far as I know they haven't rolled out rev A networks yet so you wont see a difference till then.
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06-03-2007, 09:14 PM
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Join Date: 06-10-2006
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06-03-2007, 11:52 PM
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Join Date: 08-22-2006
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Location: Fairfield County, CT
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Why would they put Rev. A in it? Then no one would get the 6800...
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06-03-2007, 11:56 PM
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Join Date: 06-10-2006
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Location: Dallas, TX
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I think for the most part, the i760 and 6800 will be 2 differing groups of customers. I think people will either care about the dial-pad or won't. That's probably one of the biggest draws for me to the i760.
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06-04-2007, 12:28 AM
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Join Date: 12-18-2006
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Location: Portland, OR
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Your right! I hadn't been following it too close cause as I said 200kbps  . I looked at that coverage map and it's not very acurate as I live in Oregon and know of at least 4 cities that have evdo that they don't list any.
Living Ghost why wouldn't people get the 6800? It's going to be rev a compatible with a upgrade. I understand that you might not trust sprint or VZW but the people I do trust is HTC and they have done well in the past.
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06-04-2007, 12:36 AM
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Join Date: 06-10-2006
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Well, the map is user based. Maybe you should submit some entries for Oregon?
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06-04-2007, 12:40 AM
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Join Date: 12-18-2006
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Location: Portland, OR
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Oh that's cool didn't even notice. I just point out the flaws and then realize that I'm an idiot. 
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06-04-2007, 01:21 AM
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Guys, don't forget that Rev. A not only increases the uplink multiple times over that of Rev. 0, but it also reduces the latency by a significant factor (don't have all the numbers in front of me right now, will dig them up later).
This means that all lag-sensitive apps that also require close-to-symmetrical data rates such as VoIP (which I'm eager to use on a WinMo phone to showcase my company's VoIP products) and video conferencing will greatly benefit from Rev. A networks.
Personally, I tend to keep a $500+ device for at least a couple of years to amortize initial costs, so I would definitely want my next phone to feature Rev. A (or HSUPA  ) in order to take advantage of the latest communication s/w that will come out in the next couple years.
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