After studying this issue, Metro is doomed with their LTE chipset. Both Verizon and Metro, which run off "LTE", can not maintain battery life with that standard. It drains the battery. I don't know if it is due to a bad design or a short but unless they fix that their 4g phones will not least long off the wall.
metroPCS is doomed by there frequencies, and spectrum. and that has nothing to do with the battery life. what kill battery life is the fact that the phone runs both cdma and LTE
Wimax, which gets around the same speeds, has a different frequency and chipset. I have found that the EVO, on 4g, has a battery life of around 4-5 hours. Keep in mind that the Evo also has 3g-evdo.
WiMax isnt available in all areas, and in some areas, its still as "slow" as evdo. all WiMax is, is a glorifed WiFi signal. using stronger repeaters, and higher distance, its still line of site, which is a smaller area than LTE can cover, also today or yesterday, sprint released their roadmap to LTE, which means byt the end of 2015 there wont be WiMax, kinda like how by the end of 2012 sprint will no longer offer iDen service
Now I have also discovered that Samsung can not develop android software or build a good phone. Their gps locator chip sucks and their processor doesn't feel like it should. It feels like Samsung has been building race cars with a model T engine...
Qualcomm makes the chips for 99% of smartphones on the market, samsung does not actually produce a cpu or gpu for thier phones. they do how ever produce some of the best LED screens, and some new ones on the horizen that will put iPonhe glaucoma screen to shame (the screens have been known to start turning yellow and cloudy)
as far as the whole model T engine, what if i told you that the Model T engine can handle higher revs, and more torque than a modern day counterpart? also if it werent for the model t v8, most engines would be diesal, or still run off of either 6 or 9 volts. just a thought
Also, Metro's service is slow. 1xrtt will drive you crazy. What is worse is Metro either disconnects your download or the connection drops so you can't download that file, even when you can get 4g.
hmmm, you seem to be spouting the same bullshiky stuff everytime anybody mentions getting a phone with android, here and at HoFo, yet I use an ASCEND and right now my ASCEND out-performs my friends evo, both in reliability, and download capability. why? because 4g isnt available in our area (WiMax isn't) not to mention you keep forgetting 1 thing. WIFI!!! i happen to live in a city that has a pretty nice wifi coverage courtesy of Google, for finishing as the top all american city 3 years in a row. If you dont like metro, do us a favor, LEAVE. your not undera contract, so its that easy
If there are 2 of you I recommends going to Sprint and buying 2 Evo phones on their 1500 minute unlimited data plan. You will save your mind and not spends much more thanks to the Evo having a price tag of $200.
I wouldnt recomend anybody to goto sprint, today Dan Huesse said pretty much: "Verizon, buy my company"