Htc Evo 4g Is for all user or only Sprint???????

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Who knows that?

Originally Posted by eshghman189

Who knows that?

The 4g portion will only be compatible with sprint's network.

The phone can technically work with other cdma carriers if you know what your doing, and will require some skill to get it to work, or a guide from someone that figures it out. 3G and 1x would possibly work if stuff is configured correctly, the radio is technically compatable with other carriers for everything other than 4g

This doesn't mean you can walk into bell south or verizon and say "hook it up" because that will definitely not work. You gotta make it work, I'm sure more info on how to do it will arise as people get their hands on it, as some have gotten the hero to work off sprints network.

I doubt 4G will work on Verizon's network those are to my knowledge the only major CDMA netwrks (in the US at least).
Verizon's take on 4g will be LTE while Sprint is going WiMax so I seriously doubt the phone's 4G radio will work across the board however the 3G and the call CDMA radio should work.

Originally Posted by Sebrina

I doubt 4G will work on Verizon's network those are to my knowledge the only major CDMA netwrks (in the US at least).
Verizon's take on 4g will be LTE while Sprint is going WiMax so I seriously doubt the phone's 4G radio will work across the board however the 3G and the call CDMA radio should work.

From what I gather the radios will operate on different frequencies
wimax on 2.5 GHz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX#Spectrum_allocation
lte is on 700 MHz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3GPP_Lo...nel_bandwidths

so I'm going to go ahead and say not a chance of it working.... although I may be wrong

Tanx

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Plz tell me more

more about what? the different frequencies?

Um well, for example you can't tune your tv to the radio channel even though they use similar technologies. (well you could back in the day depending on your tv but that isn't helping my point ) But it just uses different frequencies, look at this for a better understanding of frequency allocation,

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...o_Spectrum.jpg

The chart is rather busy, but see how each is boxed off? That is what a radio designed to operate on will be limited to. the wimax and lte are very far apart from each other in this spectrum, it will be extremely unlikely it will be able to operate on both frequencies.

This talks about the radio used in the EVO.
http://www.thesearethedroids.com/201...-gsm-and-hspa/

Not an insane amount of LTE info is out there other than what's been cleared by the FCC, more info on the radios that will be used as soon as one is released. I know one thing, the freqs are different so the same roaming you enjoy now with sprint 3g will not be shared with 4g with verizon when they kick off LTE. 3g roaming will stay unaffected per sprint and verizon's roaming agreement because of same technologies and freqs used. Only the 4g portion will be different.

One chipset to be on the lookout for is this http://www.beceem.com/ends_4G_debate_LTE.html it will support both technologies, but it unfortunately will not be in the sprint EVO. Be on the lookout though as something with this chipset might counter the aforementioned roaming problem.

Originally Posted by johnsongrantr

more about what? the different frequencies?

Um well, for example you can't tune your tv to the radio channel even though they use similar technologies. (well you could back in the day depending on your tv but that isn't helping my point ) But it just uses different frequencies, look at this for a better understanding of frequency allocation,

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...o_Spectrum.jpg

The chart is rather busy, but see how each is boxed off? That is what a radio designed to operate on will be limited to. the wimax and lte are very far apart from each other in this spectrum, it will be extremely unlikely it will be able to operate on both frequencies.

This talks about the radio used in the EVO.
http://www.thesearethedroids.com/201...-gsm-and-hspa/

Not an insane amount of LTE info is out there other than what's been cleared by the FCC, more info on the radios that will be used as soon as one is released. I know one thing, the freqs are different so the same roaming you enjoy now with sprint 3g will not be shared with 4g with verizon when they kick off LTE. 3g roaming will stay unaffected per sprint and verizon's roaming agreement because of same technologies and freqs used. Only the 4g portion will be different.

One chipset to be on the lookout for is this http://www.beceem.com/ends_4G_debate_LTE.html it will support both technologies, but it unfortunately will not be in the sprint EVO. Be on the lookout though as something with this chipset might counter the aforementioned roaming problem.

tanx,very useful

interesting

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Not that my phone ever roams (I don't travel much), but when it does my Sprint will only go to Verizon? Did I understand that correctly?

Originally Posted by Manicmobileaddict

Not that my phone ever roams (I don't travel much), but when it does my Sprint will only go to Verizon? Did I understand that correctly?

Yes, your Sprint phone will only roam on Verizon's network cause their both cdma networks.

Luckily for Sprint users Verizon covers more area than any other carrier in the US.