Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Sprint iPhone 5: No internet during or after calls issue

Confirmed that even with LTE the following two issues are happening on all phones. Worked with friends phones and also my own phone:

1. During a phone call there is no internet: This is confirmed on both Sprint and Verizon networks that there is no internet during calls on 3G or LTE.

2. After a phone call it takes about 5 to 10 seconds before the internet on the phone starts to work again. Sometimes it will take up to 20 or 30 seconds. This makes it hard to do any tasks right after a phone call. It seems the phone has to reconnect to the network.



Monday, October 15, 2012

Sprint Discount Class Action: Discounts Were Given Without Informing that it is a discount for Employer

If you are a law firm doing a class action lawsuit against Sprint for the following please email us at sprintclassaction@outlook.com

We have information of several customers who were deceived by Sprint when they signed up for their Sprint service. The representative told the customers that they would receive discounts between 5% and 27% off of their bill monthly by just signing up with them. They stated they would always get the discounts.

Now Sprint has sent emails to customers telling them that they need to verify their 'employee discounts' or lose them. Many customers have already received emails about losing the discount. None of these customers understood the discount was connected to any employer they had to work for.

The part that is more disturbing is that Sprint representative has stated that Sprint usually does this after an upgrade so if you aren't able to prove your employment, you are basically stuck in a 2 year contract as the issue only comes up after the contract renewal.

The Sprint representatives lied in this manner by telling the customers that they would get the discount by just signing up and did not inform the customers that they actually needed to be employees or members of the specific organization.

If you are a consumer that was effected, please go ahead and email us at sprintclassaction@outlook.com and we will pass your information to the class action attorneys that contact us.

Thanks

Friday, October 12, 2012

Sprint Los Angeles LTE Has Already Launched

I just started getting LTE service in Downtown Los Angeles, CA!

This is awesome considering the 3G service for Sprint is slow as a turtle. I had 4G service before so I seriously was getting frustrated.

Initial speed test is okay. I will do more tests around Los Angeles as I get more reception around the city.

Update on 10/19/2012: Just got reception at the following locations:
1. Near Crescent Heights and Santa Monica in West Hollywood
2. 9th and Olympic in Downtown Los Angeles
3. Briefly on the 101 freeway in Highlands area
4. Westwood UCLA: LTE near Westwood and Weyburn

See below screenshot, I did another test today and I was able to get faster then below.

Sunday, October 7, 2012

YouTube has been removed from iPad IOS 6: Best Alternative

Seems like Google is in a hates Apple these days. Apple has (voluntarily or involuntarily) removed the auto-install of the YouTube application. In addition the YouTube application is not there for iPad. The YouTube application is only available for iPhone.

Fortunately, iOS6 has a good developer base.  

There are two alternatives:
1. You can download the iPhone version of the YouTube app which is still in the store. The problem here is the app works in the iPhone small screen mode. I wasn't particularly impressed with this.

2. You can download the alternative iPad application called Jasmine which actually allows you to play YouTube music in the background as well. Click here

Jasmine is great because I always wanted to put a piece of music and use my iPad / iPhone for other things, but this was never possible in the regular YouTube application. It is also not possible on the Android. Therefore, with Jasmine you get a better application then the Android version on your beautiful iPad! :)

I will admit, there was one time it crashed. But what program doesn't crash once in a while these days?

We also liked the interface a lot. I was surprised how much better the interface was than the YouTube interface.