Rev A v.s Rev 0 question

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Picho

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Hi. I have a question about rev A and rev 0. I know rev A is faster internet. My question is, is the storm the only Verizon hand held that utilizes rev A?

I'm not a huge Storm fan. I was wondering if I downgraded to the Curve if I would be sacrificing internet speed when browsing on my phone.

I am talking about the phones themselves, not talking about tethering.
 
Multiple Verizon Wireless devices have Rev. A speeds. The speeds do not have a huge difference.

You wouldn't notice a difference.
 
Verizon tells me the Storm and Omnia are the only smart phones with RA, and the speed is significant in speed tests.

The Curve I found out is not Rev A. Only the Storm and Omnia. He mentioned I think other non smart phones, I believe he said the Dare.

So you are sort of wrong I guess.



To be specific, upload speeds are similar. download speeds can be 10x higher with Rev A. 1.8 mbps compared to 153 kbps with Rev 0.

That is extremely significant.
 
Being a network tester (as well as a developmental agent), I would beg to differ.

Overall speeds are nearly the same. The only difference is connection time. You can connect to rev A. nearly immediately. Rev. O takes up to 5-10 seconds to connect.

Phones that include this feature (EV-DO Rev. A) are:

HTC Touch Pro
Blackberry Storm
Samsung Omnia
Samsung i770



**I do not; however, work for Verizon Wireless. I am employed by an independant company who does close business with every wireless carrier.
 
I didn't post that to disagree, just posted what was sent to me. I don't like the storm but do enjoy getting on the internet with it. I need a bug less phone that can give me decent net speed and all the things I love about blackberry (gtalk, facebook, google sync).

That's why I asked about the Curve. They tried to tell me it was significantly slower downloading data.

I only have 10 more months on our VZW commitment, we had so many issues with the Storm they knocked us from a 2 year to a 1 year commit. as a good gesture, and gave us 300 dollars in credits towards our bills for the year.

I hate the thing. The freezes. The days when the battery lasts all day, then the random day when it lasts 3 hours (about once a week).

The thing is ridiculous.
 
I just found a list of more extensive devices:

In addition to the devices listed above, more devices are:

Motorola Adventure V750
GzOne Boulder
LG Dare

I made a mistake about the dare not having it in previous posts.

If you go to VZW's website, and go to where you can view phones...click on the phone and view specification. If it just says EV-DO (with no kind of Rev. next to it) it is Rev. O. If it says Rev. A...then it's rev A.
 
My buddy has a Curve. I totally for got. We ran net tests side by side, same sites. The Storm loaded SIGNIFICANTLY faster than the Curve. It wasn't even a ballgame.

rev A is much faster.
 
It is NOT, even by Verizon speed tests, faster.

Phones load data much different. Even though they are similar phones (both Blackberry's)...my Motorola Krave loads data faster than the LG Dare...I also was assigned to do the testing for the EV-DO services in November of 2008. Our speed tests shown that the difference was barely noticeable. Also, EV-DO rev. A is only available in about 60% of the markets where EV-DO Rev. O exists.
 
I don't know what to tell you. We both loaded espn, and I was checking box scores before he even had the main page loaded.

Then we did it with Fox News. Same deal.

for giggles, we then went to a pic heavy site. We went to google, went to images, and typed in Alex Rodriguez. I was in the actual thumbnails with a full pic loaded before his thumbnails even showed up.

Then, add to that the reports I've googled on the difference, even the reviews on CNET say Rev A is much faster.

I'm not buying what you are selling, no offense intended. it's faster.
 
Additional Rev. A devices include:


  • VZW G'zOne Boulder
  • Motorola Adventure V750
As time goes on, many devices will have it.

Since it is not a common service nationwide, it may just take some time before you see a big change/merge of devices. Also, with the new oncoming Alltel coverage, this is sure to spike enhancements.

Even without EV-DO Rev. A, Verizon Wireless has the fastest 3G network. They also have the fastest 2G (1X) network in America.
 
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