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Motorola PHOTON 4G sequel for Sprint this year?

0. phoneArena posted on 23 Apr 2012, 22:48

A source for PocketNow says that Sprint customers will be getting a shot at a sequel to the popular Motorola PHOTON 4G; the Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE could offer the same diamond-cut corners as the original and a 720p HD display...

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1. KingKurogiii posted on 23 Apr 2012, 23:24 1 0

with ICS and an S4 or better the EVO 4G LTE will be in for some trouble. xD
the EVO line sure is coming under fire from Motorola.

2. illuminatemyfate posted on 23 Apr 2012, 23:40 2 0

Looks like Sprint will have a nice trio of phones coming out this year with the EVO LTE, Photon 2 and Galaxy III (assuming it comes to Sprint as well). Choices, choices.

3. belovedson posted on 23 Apr 2012, 23:46 3 0

This is a first. I never knew Sprint considered the Photon the flagship model. Out of the trio I am positive it sold the least. In fact I have only seen a handful out in the wild, while I saw tons of Evo's and SG2's.

4. KingKurogiii posted on 23 Apr 2012, 23:50 2 1

they meant Moto's Flagship for Sprint which doesn't really say a lot...

13. lsutigers posted on 24 Apr 2012, 18:54 0 0

The Photon is an excellent phone, dual core Tegra 2, 1GB RAM, 16GB storage, 4G, international / world phone, qHD display, 8MP camera with HD video, noise cancelling mic's, awesome Motorola radios, oh and a kickstand. It is on par with the HTC EVO 3D and the Samsung Galaxy SII Epic 4G Touch, the flagships at that time.

What made the Photon great were the Moto accessories. When I bought my Photon my local Sprint store could not keep the lapdocks, HD docks and car docks in stock. I still have my Photon which is hard to believe because I switch phones every 6 months or so.

15. KingKurogiii posted on 24 Apr 2012, 19:28 1 0

i know it's a good phone. what i meant by "that's not saying a lot" is that there's barely any Motorola phones on Sprint so in turn being the Flagship does not say a lot.

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5. ceepyou posted on 24 Apr 2012, 01:45 0 0

Excited to see this continue. We have the Droid lineup (Mostly Motorola except for the Charge) for VZW, the Atrix selection for AT&T, and now the Photons for Sprint. Powerful flagship Android devices for each carrier. You have to hand it to Motorola for making their presence of mid to high tier devices known on each carrier in the last year in an arena of smartphones seemingly dominated by Samsung, HTC, and Apple.

7. kshell1 posted on 24 Apr 2012, 08:14 0 0

Moto also has mid range covered on sprint with the admiral

6. toobad posted on 24 Apr 2012, 02:54 1 1

IDK kind of gotten tired of MOTO phones. I used to own to OG droid but after that they kind of went down hill.

8. theBankRobber posted on 24 Apr 2012, 08:26 0 0

Wow if they release a Photon 2, im going to have to work some overtime and upgrade my OG Photon 4G.

9. Litch420 posted on 24 Apr 2012, 13:44 1 0

I have the Photon and it is one of the best phones I have had in my hands. I researched every single phone possible at the time of the Photon's release and I have not any a single problem with it. My next phone will be the Photon Q

10. snowgator posted on 24 Apr 2012, 14:44 2 0

Motorola seems to be a "love them or hate them" manufacturer, with few in-between. I really like Moto handsets, and liked the Photon a ton. Here's hoping the Google purchase just means better Android offerings, and the Photon 2 is a great phone.

11. adrian1559 posted on 24 Apr 2012, 17:03 0 0

Ok sprint is getting 4g lte but there 3G speeds are slow as hell ok there really stupid they should be workin on there 3G speeds first then move up to 4g then 4g lte

12. KingKurogiii posted on 24 Apr 2012, 17:06 0 0

or they could do an aggressive roll out for LTE like Verizon is doing.

14. lsutigers posted on 24 Apr 2012, 19:04 0 0

Sprint IS working on their 3G speeds, they are upgrading all of their towers with Network Vision to use a faster 3G standard and they are adding LTE nationwide.

KingKurogiii, they are aggressively deploying LTE, by the end of this year their LTE network will cover 130 miilion POPs. By next year their LTE Network will be everywhere you have 3G service.

Within a year Sprint will have the strongest Network next to Verizon, and in some aspects it will be better than VZW's with HD Voice and advanced Rev. LTE and 3G.

16. KingKurogiii posted on 24 Apr 2012, 19:30 0 0

what the hell is with you Sprint Fanboys always assuming that Verizon and the other carriers are going to be sitting around twiddling their thumbs while Sprint is improving?

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17. ncstu posted on 24 Apr 2012, 20:00 0 0

They should give it a behemoth battery. A 4g phone that can last an entire day might have me reaching for my wallet.

18. KingKurogiii posted on 24 Apr 2012, 20:14 0 0

it's likely that they'll MAXX this bad boy up.

19. 12013E12T posted on 20 Jun 2012, 04:39 0 0

Give this phone a qwerty keyboard and I'm sold!

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