 wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY | reply to Snickerdo
Re: Cingular HSDPA is fine here. said by Snickerdo:said by wifi4milez:They dont currently make any true 3G worldphones. Such a device would need to be 5 or 6 band (I get confused with all the frequencies being used!). While there are a number of phones that work for voice everywhere, nobody has even attempted to make one with multiple 3G frequencies. ... and, if you remember the early days of GSM, the same applied. The only phones sold in North America were 1900, and the only ones sold in Europe and Asia were 900/1800. It is only the last few years where World Phones have become cheap and plentiful. The same will happen with UMTS and HSDPA. Of course it will happen. My point was that there aren't currently any handsets that do true global 3G roaming. Quite a shame too, since I am DYING to buy one! When I was in Europe over the summer I had to suffer through using GPRS (not even EDGE!), and I can tell you it was a nightmare. I often couldnt even get a consistent 10k either. Bring on the 3G world phones!
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Niagara Falls, ON | said by wifi4milez:Of course it will happen. My point was that there aren't currently any handsets that do true global 3G roaming. Quite a shame too, since I am DYING to buy one! When I was in Europe over the summer I had to suffer through using GPRS (not even EDGE!), and I can tell you it was a nightmare. I often couldnt even get a consistent 10k either. Bring on the 3G world phones! You could always do what a buddy of mine did prior to the days of world phones, and just swap sims with a local phone when in Europe. Should hold you over until proper world phones are out.
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 kamm
join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY
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said by wifi4milez:said by Snickerdo:said by wifi4milez:They dont currently make any true 3G worldphones. Such a device would need to be 5 or 6 band (I get confused with all the frequencies being used!). While there are a number of phones that work for voice everywhere, nobody has even attempted to make one with multiple 3G frequencies. ... and, if you remember the early days of GSM, the same applied. The only phones sold in North America were 1900, and the only ones sold in Europe and Asia were 900/1800. It is only the last few years where World Phones have become cheap and plentiful. The same will happen with UMTS and HSDPA. Of course it will happen. My point was that there aren't currently any handsets that do true global 3G roaming. Quite a shame too, since I am DYING to buy one! When I was in Europe over the summer I had to suffer through using GPRS (not even EDGE!), and I can tell you it was a nightmare. I often couldnt even get a consistent 10k either. Bring on the 3G world phones! You've quite poorly researched your subject, pal - as I said above/below my HTC TyTn supports UMTS 850/1900/2100 MHz and GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz with GPRS and EDGE.
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kamm
join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY | reply to Snickerdo
said by Snickerdo:said by wifi4milez:Of course it will happen. My point was that there aren't currently any handsets that do true global 3G roaming. Quite a shame too, since I am DYING to buy one! When I was in Europe over the summer I had to suffer through using GPRS (not even EDGE!), and I can tell you it was a nightmare. I often couldnt even get a consistent 10k either. Bring on the 3G world phones! You could always do what a buddy of mine did prior to the days of world phones, and just swap sims with a local phone when in Europe. Should hold you over until proper world phones are out. Apart from my TyTn HTC offers couple of other multiband HSDPA phones, for months now.  |
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wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY | reply to kamm
said by kamm:You've quite poorly researched your subject, pal - as I said above/below my HTC TyTn supports UMTS 850/1900/2100 MHz and GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz with GPRS and EDGE.Outside of US I can use it in Europe, Asia etc everywhere. Perhaps YOU should do a little more research pal. UMTS is all but usless in the US, as only approximately 5 markets ever had it (from the old ATT days), and it is being decommissioned as we speak. Furthermore, all of the US is in the process of upgrading from EDGE to HSDPA, which the HTC TyTN does not support. Thirdly, Europe and Asia are all now rolling out HSDPA (and some test markets with HDUPA!), so once again your device falls flat. So basically your phone only works on current EUROPEAN 3G networks; which pretty much supports my argument that there are no global 3G phones yet. I am hope you are happy with your $1000 paper weight as you poke around at EDGE speeds! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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