A couple points of contention...

Give me LTE with good battery life and I will be elated. When you're so far ahead of the curve you don't need to re-invent the wheel. Just look at the 3G to 3Gs. Other than the horsepower upgrade much of the improvements weren't tangible and people still gobbled them up.

I own a similar type of company (just not pertaining to cell phones) and really it's a mixture of different reasons. For some, it's just convenience. They don't want to deal with eBay or Amazon. For others, it's the uncertainty of how the eBay/ Paypal ecosystem works and having to learn that. For other's it's the…

The 4s wasn't an upgrade from the 3Gs or wasn't an upgrade from the 4? If you take into account nothing other than aesthetics, the 4s is leaps and bounds better than the 3Gs, not to mention the retina display, faster chip, significantly better camera, etc. Of course, if you're comparing it to the 4 then I feel…

It's probably sitting on an air suspension which even if in proper working order, would most definitely have lost it's air after 4 years. It really doesn't look THAT bad but still, as a lowly plebian, I can't fathom why anyone would abandon something like this.

This has me seriously questioning whether or not I want to upgrade my current Macbook Pro to a retina version. I mean yeah, the retina computer is slimmer, lighter and has a beautiful display but complicated as it is, I can still work on my current model (had to swap all of the guts over to a different unibody after…

Dude, why should I have to turn my phone's radio off and then on to compensate for a sub-par network? Yeah it works but generally shoots right back to "extended" or that little "0". I mean listen to yourself. You're telling me to stop my bitching and then you go on to insinuate that shutting off the phone's radio…

The only reason I'm hanging on is because of the upgrade to LTE and the fact that I can't get my unlimited data any more through AT&T.

It wasn't intended to be a scientific display in the video. It was just supposed to show how the sprint phone typically acts. Regardless of battery level, signal strength, etc this is the kind of performance I get out of it. I didn't purposely skew the video for affect. I've never seen over 40kbps out of the sprint…

I don't know. Are you stupid? As I mentioned in the video, these are results I can duplicate on demand regardless of battery level, whether Bluetooth is on, etc. Then there's the stuff you can't directly measure like how often the phone just won't dial or how often it goes into extended mode. With a full battery and…

Hey I'm envious of you. I'd love to have a phone that was usable.

Yeah, you're probably right... Chicago is really obscure.

Whenever you make a comment like mine there's always 25 people eagerly wanting to respond that they don't have an issue and I don't discount that but I'd venture a guess that you're the exception. In the suburbs of Chicago I get nothing. I can run the test just like I did in the video and those will be the results…

Regardless of the reason, 20kbps download speeds are beyond unacceptable. The original iPhone on Edge was faster than this.

Yes, I hate you. :-)

If you're not using an iPhone my comments really don't apply. It's a well documented iPhone issue.

This video is why Sprint SHOULD be slashing prices. Their service is unusable. Siri is a luxury I can only use on wi-fi; otherwise it times out. I dropped AT&T on my phone to save $20 a month and take advantage of Sprint's unlimited data. I'm. An. Idiot.

Which is why I own one too! :-)

We had this conversation in the original topic but the 2004+ A8L is just as cheap as the Phaeton and is better in just about every way, least of which being 600lbs lighter due to it's aluminum body.