Posted by Residentevil
As far as I know the UMTS band that is used in Europe is 2100Mhz indeed.
Posted by knight4led
T-Mobile will have the clear edge then in the future with 3G devices. So much for AT&T. Simply by handset availability I would go for T-Mobile now. A quad band GSM device with 2100 UMTS would be all you need.
Posted by Residentevil
I sure hope so. I am with tmob for five years now.
Posted by emily
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Posted by Hlcn Twst
On 2007-04-19 16:45:48, Residentevil wrote:
I sure hope so. I am with tmob for five years now.
If my work location weren't a T-Mobile black hole, I would switch to them in a heartbeat. Service requests to T-Mobile disappear down a black hole of their own
Posted by knight4led
Well I have plenty of time to sit back and wait before I return to the US and by then I hope at least one company has a dependable network running that I can buy and use the full feature set of European phones. This seems like a big step for T-Mobile and would make me finally become a fan of theirs.
Until then I am stuck with the basics in more ways than you can all imagine in El Salvador.
Posted by BobaFett
is anybody here from san francisco?
Posted by BobaFett
hello all
have a question, more a requset. do u order from amazon.com? my friend would like to buy this
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-VG[....]ctronics&qid=1177697767&sr=8-1
what are your experineces with amazon?
Posted by knight4led
I'm not from San Francisco, but I know it decently well. I went to University of California Berkeley just across the Bay and spent many a fun or crazy evening in San Fran. If there is something you want to know I might be able to answer.
As for Amazon, I have nothing but praise for them. They always seem to beat their shipping expectations, they have a wide range of products and their inventory always reflects what they do and don't have. Plus with the reviews it is reasonable to do research there. They don't have the best prices, but my experience is you get what you pay for. That is to say, you aren't paying rock bottom prices, so you are paying for slightly better service and a very slick and professional web site.
Posted by BobaFett
thx for your comment
so its one of the best solution to buy off that sony vaio?
Posted by Residentevil
Everything I bought from Amazon.com I got and I can't say anything negative about them.
Posted by BobaFett
whats your opinion about bajangles?
http://www.bajangles.com/
Posted by Residentevil
I have not dealt with them.
Posted by GPRS
selling my K800i unlocked w/ HPM70
pm me
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Posted by rambo47
Amazon is great, but there's word that Sony is soon to unvail a couple of new Vaio laptops. Release of at least one model is set for July, and they sound tasty. The story came by way of C|Net: http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9713965-1.html?tag=blog
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Posted by Hlcn Twst
On 2007-04-14 15:28:02, rambo47 wrote:
I haven't heard of one phone that uses these new frequencies. That certainly could be a reason for delaying the rollout. Maybe SE and others have given them a timeframe for new mobiles that include these frequencies and that time frame is way out there. That would certainly suck.
Probably why the Nokia N95 isn't fully US-compatible
http://youtube.com/watch?v=o9wLkNsika4
Posted by aatuif
Does someone among you guys know Randolph Langenbach, a conservation architect from california...
Posted by Miss UK
don't scream about it im sure the USA will get a compatible N95
eventually
Posted by Miss UK
Wake up Yanks lol
Posted by knight4led
you rang?
Although I don't know that I qualify anymore since I no longer live in the US
Posted by rambo47
The mobile phone situation here is deplorable. Those of us who want the latest and greatest must find them overseas or at a dodgy import shop, unlock (and maybe unbrand), and then put up with missing or incomplete features due to our stone age cellular situation. Yeah, it's improving, but it sure seems to take forever. We don't even have full rollout of 3G here yet. The carriers are testing it in some of the major cities and promise to complete the rollouts Any Day Now™. So for now we GSM users make due with EDGE in most areas. And if we are lucky enough to be in an area deemed worthy of a 3G trial then we pay through the nose for it. The carriers here are a bunch of complete and utter tossers.
I feel better now that I've gotten that out of my system.
Posted by Miss UK
Knight where you living now then?
lol has anyone went into a cell store over there and went mad with the sales advisors? about the latest phones that they don't seem to be able to get
btw all this is like the movies you guys get them before they hit anywhere else first so it's just abit of luck that we have the latest Mobiles here in the UK and rest of Europe
Posted by Residentevil
As high tech as it gets for SE here in the Store is a W810 from Cingular.
Posted by Miss UK
if thats the only high-tech
then id like to see what the other high tech brands are over there in terms of phone sales
Posted by rambo47
On 2007-05-10 15:03:57, miss uk wrote:
btw all this is like the movies you guys get them before they hit anywhere else first so it's just abit of luck that we have the latest Mobiles here in the UK and rest of Europe
True, that. We have the entertainment capital of the world on our left coast. But try to find decent coverage of Tri-Nations Rugby over here! Looks like I'll just have to keep playing club rugby and dream of making the All Blacks.
Posted by Miss UK
Hmm stop changing the subject
Posted by knight4led
@miss uk, I live in El Salvador for the time being. I'll be here until roughly July or August 2008.
@rambo, stop complaining about the deplorable phone situation in the US. I agree as a developed nation we should have a better phone system, but it has as much to do with the FCC as it does with the carriers. The FCC rarely opens up phone bands and restricts what bands are in use. That is what caused our problems with different bands. Carriers carry what they assume will make them money and most manufacturers are not in any rush to build lots of advanced phone for a small market dominated by two GSM carriers with alternate bands and looking for competitive distribution deals.
Still the situation there in the US is way better than 75% of the world. Here cell phone technology has usurped traditional phones because the cost of development is much cheaper and to an extent the costs can be dished off on the consumer. With cell towers you put it up and thats it, lots of customers now have access if they choose to buy a handset. However here few parts even have GPRS let alone EDGE and 3G is just unthinkable since most areas have spotty reception. Price gouging is huge here since El Salvador adopted the dollar as the official currency. And even though I am not quite paying US prices for my minutes, it comes close. All this in a country woefully underemployed and under payed.
So I say count your blessings. Right now I'm getting by with my old T616 because for some reason El Sal has the 850 band. And still my phone seems like a technological monster compared to all the nokia 1100s floating around.
Posted by Hlcn Twst
It's not all the FCC's fault. The 900, 1800, and 2100 MHz bands were already occupied by other users in the US before mobile telephony came along. They did the best they could with what little they had.
I blame the world GSM Association. I bet they deliberately picked GSM frequencies know to be available everywhere except the US. And now we're particularly screwed when it comes to 3G. Even more so since each of our 2 (!) carriers purchased completely different spectra
Posted by Residentevil
Well we have to see which 3G band tmob is deploying this year.
850band in El Salvador. They probably bougth old, used towers from Cingular, now the new AT&T (again)
Posted by Marino
@ Hlcn
I agree with you, its not all the FCC’s fault on the North America UMTS spectrum. When the GSM world decided to operate on 2100 MHz, that spectrum is already been allocated to military & commercial satellite band.
Were not (particularly) screwed when it comes to 3G we have HSDPA at the speed of 1.8, 3.6, 7.2 and 14.4 Mbit/s downlink, we’re just not compatible with the European units.
@ Resident
I don’t think T-mobile will buy any Cingular old and use towers because they are operating at (UMTS/HSDPA) 850/1900 MHz band. According to eWeek article "T-Mobile will announce UMTS on 1700 MHz and 2100 MHz," said analyst Roger Entner, vice president of the London-based research and consulting company Ovum.
Entner said that the U.S. frequencies are different from those in Europe and elsewhere, and for that reason, T-Mobile's UMTS solution will work only in the United States until new devices with multiple frequency support are developed, despite the fact that UMTS is a global standard.
Posted by Residentevil
Happy Memorial Day to everybody.
Posted by Residentevil
Man it was hot today. 95F or 35C. Puhhhu.
Posted by knight4led
Ouch, thats pretty hot. I hope its not humid in addition.
Yesterday was so humid that while I was out hiking, my sweat didn't dry for 5 hours. Then when I finally got home it started to pour rain. Hot, humid and rainy is not my favorite combination.
Posted by Marino
Good news for those who uses AT&T for international texting, 10 cents a message.
Posted by RichLok
Hi everybody!!!
Posted by Residentevil
Hi richlok
Posted by Hlcn Twst
On 2007-05-31 16:11:39, knight4led wrote:
Ouch, thats pretty hot. I hope its not humid in addition.
Yesterday was so humid that while I was out hiking, my sweat didn't dry for 5 hours. Then when I finally got home it started to pour rain. Hot, humid and rainy is not my favorite combination.
That's the only good thing about living in {undisclosed location} - the air is nice and dry. Of course, it's also filled with dirt, and when it rains, it rains {undisclosed location}.
Posted by knight4led
{undisclosed location} sounds pretty nice most of the year.
Posted by RichLok
How has everyone been? I see some familiar faces but others are missing....
Posted by Hlcn Twst
Hey y'all, buy my W300i - factory unlocked and completely unbranded, and running Americas-1 firmware
Posted by goldenapple
hey all,
im goin to boston for univ studies this fall. i just wanna ask if my p990i will work in that area and, whats the best carrier as far as signal and 3g coverage is concerned?
im coming from the Philippines btw.
thanks !
Posted by Residentevil
You are SOL for 3G. Incompatible. Cingular uses 3G 1900/850, while the P990i has 2100 for 3G. Tmob is supposed to come out with 3G. Might be 2100. Who knows. Check within a store for the newest.
Besides that both carriers will work with our phone. I prefer Tmob.
See here: http://www.google.com/search?[....]ator+status&btnG=Google+Search
click on the second link.
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Posted by goldenapple
@ Residentevil
what!? Nooo! I have to change my phone again! Question tho, is HSDPA the same as UMTS in terms of band frequencies? meaning, like the s500i which supports HSDPA, will it work with the HSDPA network of Cingular?
I might go with the k850i then...darn. no pda.
Posted by Residentevil
As far as I know HSDPA should be working.
Posted by Marino
@ goldenapple
Your phone will work on the GSM network, as far as the HSDPA your phone its not forward compatible with the North American bandwidth.
Using your p990i where HSDPA is unavailable, the phone can fall back to slower networks such as GSM, GPRS, and EDGE.
If you go with your K850i triband HSDPA it may work to AT&T (formerly Cingular) using your roaming access. American HSDPA is lock to its service providers so you may end up buying a service.
Posted by stfarm
I posted this in the wrong place first, oops.....
On my RAZR I am able to send out emails to any account I like using a regular email address.
I can not figure out how to do this on my new W810i.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Just to make sure, I am trying to SEND email from my cell phone.
I am NOT concerned receiving....
Thank you for your help,
Steve
Posted by Residentevil
You need to setup your phone with the right Pop3/smtp server. You need to have a server to send mail or use your phone providers server and setup.
Posted by goldenapple
i've searched both Tmob and Cingular websites. Im interested in applying for Cingular's MeDIA max (im a heavy user of 3g inet). Is anyone familiar with this service? I dont want to use their phone. I just want to take advantage of their service plans. Is it possible for me to access CV (cellular video service) from a non-Cingular-branded phone?
I've also noticed that there are no video call rates....is vid call not a standard yet in the U.S.?
so many decisions....i myt go for the dopod d810 (htc p3600)...to access the umts/hsdpa network...
i really need help deciding. thnx
Posted by sithcentz
On 2007-06-21 08:38:00, goldenapple wrote:
i've searched both Tmob and Cingular websites. Im interested in applying for Cingular's MeDIA max (im a heavy user of 3g inet). Is anyone familiar with this service? I dont want to use their phone. I just want to take advantage of their service plans. Is it possible for me to access CV (cellular video service) from a non-Cingular-branded phone?
I've also noticed that there are no video call rates....is vid call not a standard yet in the U.S.?
so many decisions....i myt go for the dopod d810 (htc p3600)...to access the umts/hsdpa network...
i really need help deciding. thnx
Golden, if I were you I would hold off searching for a data plan right now and see if you could get away with using only wifi on your p990i. If your university in Boston is like almost any other across the country, you should get free wifi across your campus. Plus you factor in that you get free wifi in tons of other stores around the area and you might be able to save your money and just use wifi.
As for video calls....no. I bet there are maybe 5 phones on all the carriers in america combined that could even potentially do a video call, so no one uses that here.
Posted by Marino
I second to that, if your intention is to get a data connection (and get away of the high cost of service) WiFi is the way to go. Boston is the Silicon Valley of the East Coast I bet there are tons of free WiFi connection in the area. One article on the net way back on February of 2006 MIT plans to deploy a citywide Wireless MESH, hopefully it’s been deployed so bring your laptop along with your high end phone.
As for using your phone, before buying the service make sure to ask them if you can use your non-Cingular phone. As far as I know their service is embedded to their cell phone units
Video call (….is vid call not a standard yet in the U.S.?) the technology is there but the market is a big question mark.
[ This Message was edited by: Marino on 2007-06-21 23:32 ]