yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] scoot05redss:
That's 199 up front and $21 a month for 2 years! 21x24 is $504 plus the $199.99 up front and that's $703.99 over the two years.

Cool Petition though, I hope it gets you somewhere! **Signed**
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Jfree3000:
Signed it for you as well, going to be ditching these guys soon anyway. Good luck.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] deathshead:
Since when has a petition REALLY done anything in a situation like this?

If you really look at it, Sprint is not really any cheaper than verizon anyway.

voice-data coverage and speed once you do get data..

Sprint does offer unlimited data, but its more expensive than any other carrier for like 1% of

the coverage of any other carrier, and when you finally do find data its terribly slow.

Also, if you just wait a few weeks you can probably get it much much cheaper..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] musclehead84:
Signed. Thanks op
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] arsi123:
I'm in the UK and this will have no effect over here, however, I've still signed it. Hope the price comes down following this petition. :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] seanu13:
I'm on AT&T, but I can understand wanting the same price as others. Signed.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] CDKJudoka:
Signed it as I want the N3 soon.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] freeza:
I have never seen so many people worked up over $50 before. You'd think it was a bank breaker the way some of you guys are whining and threatening to switch to T-Mobile, which actually turns out to be full retail price if you know math.

I understand you want it to be the same across carriers, I get it. That would be ideal, but seriously guys, it's $50, not $100. Sprint won't care how many people sign this petition.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] grifter9931:
Petition signed...

Also the T-mobile $199 myth is fascinating.... I spoke with a rep yesterday and she said not to move over from my current company..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] scoot05redss:
What's more fascinating is that people fall for it! And upgrade twice a year, when ever you want. But what happens to the balance from your last phone?? Yeah pay it off or your bills goes UP!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] freeza:
You turn in your last phone and start over.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] grifter9931:
For some folks it the principle of the situation. For some others, they have no discernable arithmetic skills what so ever.

Yeah T-mobile I am bashing you....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] freeza:
I understand that, but when you think about how Sprint is the cheapest carrier out of the 4, their pricing strategy suddenly starts to make sense. I'd rather pay a lower monthly bill and have them continue to undercut the competition at the expense of $50 added to a contract phone than to have the phones be the same price across the board with higher monthly bills. They have to make money somehow. You can't continue stay competitive and lose out every quarter. That's stupid business.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] grifter9931:
Of course,

I am a Sprint customer as well, the $50 pricing discrepancy doesn't really sway me one way or the other. I have a unlimited and I have a family plan. I have priced the competition over the years and I haven't found anything close to what I pay over a calendar year.

I have come to terms with the Tri-band fiasco, I just wish they would come out and say something that made absolute sense about the how's and the why's... It's not 1995 anymore news and especially things like pricing and service related news, travels fast and then blows up into Sprint bashing fodder on various internet sites.

I had two people over hear a conversation I had last night and left T-mobile to join Sprint... Math skills ftw!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] freeza:
Nice to know there are still some very level headed logical thinking people out there! Agreed fully.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] scoot05redss:
So essentially they will give you a trade in value of whatever you owe (as long as the phone isn't smashed) and you start the new payment plan. Gotcha!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] elephant007:
If you're worried about getting ripped off as you stated, just don't by the phone. It's a choice, if you want the phone you'll pay the higher premium. Just that simple.

Wow I sound like I work for Sprint, which I don't. Bottom line is if you want the phone you'll pay the price.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] non1oson:
don't live in US but feel your pain bro... I signed
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] loveracing1988:
I would much rather have the $50 in my pocket than Sprint's. I have no problems paying $50 more for the phone, but if I'm going to do that I want something in return, more storage, different colors, free case, being triband, something. Instead you get nothing in return for that extra money you are spending.

The other side of it though is where does it stop? IF the phone sells well for sprint at $349, who's to say Verizon and AT&T don't look at that and decide to charge the same for their version, if not this time maybe next time, and then 2 to 3 years down the road someone will experiment with $399, and then continue on, while we just sat idly by like Zombies instead of doing something about it.

Yes I know this petition has a very very low chance of doing anything, but just maybe I can put the idea in the back of people's heads and maybe it will find the right person with the right connections and or resources to actually make a change.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] loveracing1988:
One last bump in case anyone hasn't seen this.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Hotobu:
If you don't want to pay the price then take your business somewhere else. That's what competition is for. If you do end up paying for more just imagine that your money is going towards fixing Sprint's godawful network. This should make you feel better.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] clninja:
I don't understand why you would spend any money on a phone for Sprint. 199, 299, 349, 703... whichever price they give you is too much to have terrible awfully slow internet on such an amazing device. Sprint won't have 4g deployed and up to T-Mobile, Verizon,att speeds until 2015. Softbank. Recently put out a statement About the timeframe.

Sprints plan is 80/month

And 349 up front for phone

T-Mobile is 60 + 21/month for the phone

And 199 up front for phone.

That's 2269 over 2 years with contract and 3g speeds on Sprint

And 2143 over 2 years with T-Mobile with no contract and 4g lte

Now who can't do math

And the jump upgrade, you trade on your old phone and in exchange they wipe out what you owe on it and you start fresh.

Also I won't be signing your petition.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] loveracing1988:
Because I want paying full price for a phone to keep unlimited data on Verizon. The main place I use my phone is work and I get full signal there, on the exterior of the building I get 4g that allows me to watch HD YouTube videos which to me is fast enough. Even on 3g I can watch HQ videos with little buffering. When I had Verizon I was in the same situation but couldn't try out the HD as I had the original razr maxx.

I would have paid Verizon's $30 higher per month prices but not for limited data.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Rippley05:
So you jump in to show off your"math" skills and automatically assume Sprint sucks everywhere while other carriers are better options for everyone? Then finish it off by being an assbag about not signing? Awesome keyboard Rambo style.

For the record, At&T/T-mobile have far worse coverage here than Sprint, Verizon is like the dictator of wireless. Sprint is a better option (although I'd love it if t-mobile had ANY coverage here) So while we appreciate your uber brilliant post, it said a lot without saying anything. Thanks anyway tho!:good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] bray424:
-My house is a dead zone for AT&T and T-Mobile.

-99% of the data I use is transferred via WiFi, so for the most part, who has the highest speeds is pretty much irrelevant (although so is data capping for that mater).

-I see people complaining about Sprint customer service all the time, but I've been a customer for 10 years and haven't had a single issue.

Basically the ONLY time I ever had any interest in swapping carriers was the early days of Android when T-Mobile was getting all the cool phones, and switching wouldn't have done any good because of the aforementioned deadzone. There's more to choosing a wireless carrier than speeds and prices, so don't assume that just because they aren't the ideal carrier for YOU, they aren't the ideal carrier for someone else.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] loveracing1988:
Good job making the math work in your favor. Your $60 a month includes 2.5Gb of data, sprints is unlimited, so if you want to do a actual comparison tack $10 per month on there, which makes T-Mobile more expensive than sprint. Honestly it wouldn't matter for me though, I live in Michigan, unless you live in a downtown area, your only getting 2g anyways which is pathetic.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] clninja:
It's unlimited. It's 2.5 gb of 4g then slows down to sprints speeds. Where Sprint is unlimited 3g. Moat places don't even.have 4g and where they do have 4g it runs at.terrible speeds cause the underdeveloped network is so bogged dowm and overloaded

If I was really comparing apples to apples I would use T-Mobiles $50 plan which is unlimited but with 500Mb of 4g before it slows down to sprints speeds
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] loveracing1988:
No, it slows down to dial up speeds, you are maxed out at 60Kb/s. Sprint has about twice as much 4G as Tmobile in the whole state and most of the state is still 2G, Sprints network is slow and underdeveloped compared to Verizon and AT&T, but compared to Tmobile? No.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] shminer:
great job :p
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] smooth703:
Signed
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] ericdabbs:
This petition is useless. The Sprint GN3 is already in stock at Sprint stores getting ready for launch this Friday. The device is single band LTE and it is not going to change. If you buy Sprint GN3, just know that going in and be happy with it and move on.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] jspsuperman:
Pretty sure this petition has nothing to do with the tri band of the phone. Its about the fact everyone else is 299 vs Sprint 349, maybe read a little before typing.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] dirtbikerr450:
I signed it even though im getting the T-mobile version on AT&T for the unlocked bootloader
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] rukin1:
Signed :D lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] loveracing1988:
The funny thing is that is what people were telling me is one of the reasons sprint's version is more expensive.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] BuddaBelly:
Signed!

I would like to believe that this would make a difference but the reality is it probably won't. If they decided next week to lower the price then what do you do for all the folks that already purchased at the higher price. Reality is that devices are getting faster and are doing more and the prices will continue to go up regardless.I wouldn't even pay 299 to be honest with you because I just don't see the value when the Note 2 still does everything I need and does it well. I still think the price is to high though for a two year contract.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] loveracing1988:
Well, here is what one of the sprint Representatives said about the price of the Note 3. " Even at a $50 higher promotional price you still financially come out on top with Sprint."

To me that means that it is going to start put $50 higher to rip off the early adopters who will inevitably do their R&D and find the issues with it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] MikeyLee:
$199? LOL Thats bull**** haha. EVERYTHING on T-Mobile costs full retail over the life of your contract.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] MikeyLee:
I'm not upgrading until this goes down to at least $249, if not lower. $349 is ridiculous. maybe this is Sprint's way of heading toward what T-mobile does with charging customers full retail? Either way full retail is nowhere close to what these things are worth. People who pay it are crazy.

---------- Post added at 03:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:51 PM ----------

Also Radio Shack guarantees to be $50 lower than anyone else so there is where you should be able to get it for $299. (Hopefully)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] loveracing1988:
Radioshack doesn't even show the phone on their website, aside from their trade in program I haven't seen anything from them...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] kaisutam:
Signed! Regardless of network issues. The higher price should be explained or lowered. Heck even Big Red has dual band under its hood
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] stanglifemike:
Sprint happens to be the fastest carrier in my area, actually! That and unlimited data, anyone in my area would be an idiot not to go with Sprint!

I'm about 30-40 minutes west of Atlanta, Georgia.

SwiftKey'ed from my White Note 2 via XDA Premium HD
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] hot0m:
Signed it. Competition keeps prices low. They make up their profits on data plans. Unfortunately no 4G LTE in my state and I'm paying for it. How can I get my money back?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Westnile:
I'm on cricket but going to boost or sprint soon as they have coverage in places I need to be...signed they should be more competitive to get anywhere in the first place....hope this goes somewhere I'll link it on my fb for you
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] sgirard1991:
Good luck; I'm currently fighting for that too. Had Sprint for about two weeks, it was the worst. Data speeds were slower than dial up internet, texts barely would send, call quality was garbage, and I had repeated problems with a phone on my plan and they refused to fix or replace it. I had no choice but to switch to another carrier, & refuse to pay them for a service that was unusable.....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] bray424:
This is actually why a thread like this is pointless: Competition keeps prices low, not petitions. Someone at sprint came to the conclusion they could make money selling it at that price (probably so they could tack on a few extra bucks a month to their new yearly upgrade plan); its not like they pulled a random number out of a hat and are completely unaware of their competitor's price.

But if you really think a petition will work, why stop at $299? Why not just demand it be free, think of all the sigs you'd get then!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] bumsock:
It is a ****y move from sprint pricing wise... First with the GS4 and now with this one. Granted It didn't stop me from getting the phone lol but it would have been nice to have that extra $50 for a case. :thumbdown:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] demetrios3:
This whole thread is crazy!! Sprint offers unlimited voice & data for $80 monthly. Both Verizon & ATT start at over $100 monthly and thats for a capped data plan.

By comparison Sprint is cheap, even with the $50 extra for the phone factored in.

Sure ATT and Verizon have superior national data maps but I can live with Sprints and the abundance of open wifi makes the carrier data speed irrelevant anyway.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] CNexus:
Signed, although I do not have this phone and do not plan on getting it.

And yes, $50 does make a difference to me, though it may not to some of you.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] samantha123:
you can order on sprint.com for 249 if your adding a new line or new account.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] skyyrocket:
*Signed* I am with sprint and never really buy phones, I usually trade on craigslist lol its cheaper then early upgrades and free and i can do it as much as i want :D Like I traded my Icrap 5 for a brand new S4 in box and everything straight trade :highfive: but besides that......demetrios3 have you used sprint ??? If you do you will know why we are complaining. Yea granted sprint is cheaper but the service is garbage and just worthless sometimes. I mean I live in a "Official LTE market" and I am on 3g or roaming most of the time or no service at all and when i do get LTE its just as slow lol.. I complain every month and get about 15-30 bucks off every month for having bad data and service. Yea at&t and verizon are more expensive but look at the service you get. Hell verizon alone has almost 550-600 markets with LTE :eek: So think about why we are complaining and even if we had the best service its still not right or fair to charge us more when other carriers are doing it cheaper.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] cherylbaker:
Since when is life fair?

Sent from my SPH-L900 using Xparent Purple Tapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] skyyrocket:
Trust me your telling me something I been known from a lot of first hand experiences
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] chaosrecords:
Sprint has a $100 port in credit for new subscribers, and also offer buybacks to trade in your old phone.

The 1up program is launching soon for the rest of retail markets
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] seoulbrova:
Except this is what you pay for:

http://youtu.be/cc52m5wFUtI

OG Evo, never got WIMAX

Epic Touch, Still didn't get WIMAX

Galaxy S3 and Note 2, rarely used LTE since it only came up when I went to LA, and even that is just recently.

I still got the Note 3 and am staying with Sprint but the video has a point. Unlimited crap is still unlimited crap.

I'm just waiting for that crap to eventually turn into gold since Im on a SERO plan
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] demetrios3:
I've been a Sprint customer for about 10 years. Sure I fight with Customer Service sometimes but I'm certain I'd have occasional fights with (insert name of Carrier) just as often.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] skyyrocket:
I was with T-mobile for 10 years only had to call about 3-5 times about data issues and I never had to get my devices replaced because sprint ran out of excuses to give me.. I went thru 3 GS3's, 2 HTC one's, 2 Iphone 5's, 2 Iphone 4s's and only one I haven't need to get replaced is my GS4 so far "knock on wood" This was all because sprint thought it was device instead of just plain bad service
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] cckeeler:
I have had my HTC One for about 5 days now. I love most everything about the phone. The one thing that is driving me nuts is the lag/stuttering/choppy scrolling in 3rd party apps. Apps like Plume, Facebook, and google+ are the worst. Facebook is almost unbearable. Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there any way to fix it? I am seriously debating on taking this thing back. I hated the tiny screen on my iPhone but the scrolling was so smooth on that phone. Maybe I was just spoiled. But maybe I just got a bad device. Anyone else?
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] m4rk0358:
I have experienced no lag on this device. Bought it on launch day.

sent from my HTC one
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] cckeeler:
Is it possible that one device would perform better than another? The sense launcher and all the sense apps scroll and transition really smoothly but as soon as I get in another app its lag city. I have noticed that the stock twitter app scrolls smoothly but if I use something like Plume or echofon I get lagging and stuttering. I am so frustrated.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] cckeeler:
So I ended up taking the phone back and getting it replaced by another one. Unfortunately it is exactly the same. I am really confused. I must pay way to much attention to the smoothness of my scrolling. So does no one experience any type of lag or choppiness in the facebook app or in twitter apps like Plume or seesmic? I'm just wondering if I am doing something that is causing the lag.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] major_works:
I've had mine for a week and I see virtually no lag in any apps. I'm very pleased with the performance.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] crazyg0od33:
facebook scrolling is tough on any device...

It's loading all of that stuff in the background. Mine is 'choppy' as well but its not lagging. It responds immediately to any touch input, but the news feed hits a few snags when I try and go through it really fast.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] cckeeler:
Maybe what I am referring to lag isn't lag so much. Its just choppy like you described. It would seem that it is then more of a loading issue than a performance issue maybe. May just be something I need to get used to. I am struggling with the thought of going back to a 4 inch iphone screen.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] BygSii:
What you are experiencing is normal. Call it lag, call it choppy, ect. Some people notice it like you and me, some people don't notice it. A lot of Apps for android have not been optimized to run on the new snapdragon 600 processors. Could be because they want the minimum requirements on these to be so low that Joe Blow with his LG Optimus DYNAMIC AT 500mhz can at least play Jetpack Joyride, while we HTC One owners see lag every three seconds. It you want everything to be buttery smooth, buy a Windows Phone 8. They optimize all there apps and have requirements met by each device. Same with Apple. But WP8 has no apps and Apple lacks customization. So I'll take my HTC One with a laggy Facebook and Jetpack Joyride and hope they optimized a new version of them for the new processors that are being released.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] kdj67f:
Perhaps everything else is so fast on the phone that you are perceiving "normal" as "laggy" :D

Sent from my Zune HD. Yeah, I still have one of those.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] cckeeler:
deep man.... deep....
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] Zynesterysdan:
Yeah, if you came from an iPhone which in terms of smoothness is pretty damn smooth in just about everything, then the little skips and stutters in Android will annoy you for a while.

It happened to me a couple years ago when I switched but it was much worse since the phones were so much slower. But the openness of Android and it's roms as well as the community made me stay. Now a days there really isn't to much of a difference on Android phones in terms of smoothness, or at least the gap has closed a bit.

You got to hand it to Apple though, they make their phones feel faster than they really are lol
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] nrfitchett4:
think you should give bad reviews in the playstore for apps that are "laggy" for you.

Its the devs not optimizing code or trying to do too much at once that cause it.

Like the Menu button black bar. That has been around for what, 2 years, and its because devs refuse to update their apps to the newest android code.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] kmmccorm:
Swype specifically is brutal for me ... sometimes upward of a two second lag for the keyboard to pop up.

I realize this is a big time first world problem.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] cckeeler:
Yeah I really think it does boil down to poorly written apps. I have tried almost every twitter app on the market and they all scroll kind if rough to me, but settled on the stock one for now. It actually scrolls pretty good. So it can be done. I wonder why that seems to be more of an exception than a rule.

Another thing I noticed it that it may have something to do with how android scrolls vs ios. Ios scrolls much slower but I think that allows for the choppiness from images loading to not seem as choppy. If i do a quick swipe up with my finger on android that thing cruises where in ios it scrolls a quarter of the way down. I think I'm going to just try and get used to it. I really like the phone overall.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] BreakingVZW:
I haven't experienced any lag whatsoever. The phone is pretty snappy. What is your memory usage average when you go into manage apps? Is something eating up a lot of memory?

The only other thing I could suggest is rebooting into stock recovery and wiping the cache.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] DroidOnRoids:
Like others have said, it boils down to 3rd party app optimization. It's really unfortunate that a lot of apps don't take full advantage of quad core processors and I hope in the near future most of them do.