Posted by hairytea
I took my wife to the vodafone shop and got her a shiny new W900 phone with 3g software.
The guy in the shop had the same phone and explained to her that the phone had 3G software and showed her the live streaming television.
I perked up and said i have the W810i and asked whether it also had 3G software. He said yes that my phone is definately got 3G enabled but couldn't tell me if it is capable of live TV streaming as with the W900i.
Does anyone here know the answer to this?
Can my W810i also watch streaming TV as it is also 3G compatible?
If so what software do i need to download to enable this?
Posted by JK
Yes you can, but not as fast as 3G phones with a strong edge signal you can watch or listen to live streaming
Posted by hairytea
how ruuuude.
just phoned orange and asked if my phone will support 3G and they said no because my sim card doesn't support it!
i asked how much to upgrade my service plan and get a new sim card that will alow 3G streaming and they want £ 450!!!
Posted by SCORPIONKING1982
the w810 doesnt support 3G, it supports edge which is gprs but a lickle bit faster, but not as fast as 3g. dont know who if anyone supports edge in the uk.
3g is not a 'software' thing anyway
orange/voda chaps are talking lies.
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Posted by Jamin
w810i is not 3g it's edge
Posted by hairytea
Thank you for clarifying i dont know a lot about this as you may have gathered lol.
And yer does sound like the people at Vodafone and Orange don't know what they are talking about either...it's their job to know, is that not what they are paid for?...idiots lol
Cheers guys
[ This Message was edited by: hairytea on 2006-06-12 13:49 ]
Posted by hairytea
one last question:-
is there any way to update the phone to be 3G compatible?
many thanks
Posted by SCORPIONKING1982
sorry mate you cant, its a hardware thing.
Posted by jepherberich
no, unless you have a way of putting in a 3G module or something
Posted by hairytea
thanks guys.
shocking,
just phoned Orange again and got put from person to person, managed to speak to three people and not one of them had even heard of edge let alone know whether orange supports it.
no go there then.
Posted by awave
hmmm.....edge is a 3g technology, i can see that different people are getting confused here. no you cannot view mobile tv on your handset. edge creates a faster download/upload rate than gprs, but the fact that to watch the mobile tv, you need umts 3g because it enables the use of ip addresses (? i think sooooooo)....and therefore, its only UMTS and HSDPA that will support mobile tv, HSDPA is still in development, but it will probably be available in 2yrs or so...there is testing going on in Newbury, BERKSHIRE at vodafone's HQ to what i believe...i wish i worked there...hmmm....thinking of a job...i'll try go there lol!
awave
EDIT - yes, orange do support edge, infact they were the first UK network to support it, i don't know how good there coverage of the UK is yet though. may just be limited to central london and a few other places at the moment. i don't know which other operators have edge on there network.
awave
[ This Message was edited by: awave on 2006-06-12 16:37 ]
Posted by hairytea
Am getting mixed results here...so you either can or can't watch live TV if edge is available?
Little more confused now than i was before lol.
EDIT - just done some web searching and it appears i can infact use this mobile and receive live TV via Orange UK:-
http://www.rok.tv/network.htm[....]in_process=false&uq=1150127087
[ This Message was edited by: hairytea on 2006-06-12 16:46 ]
Posted by awave
yes, you can recieve mobile tv via orange, but the fact that the w810i is an edge enabled phone rather than a umts enabled phone, means that the technology is not there to make it possible for you to watch the streaming tv on your handset.
awave
EDIT - even if the software that you sent me a link to, does work on an edge enabled mobile phone, this would mean that you would be paying a hell of alot in bandwidth charges (wap charge), which if its anything like vodafone's charging system, you'll be bankcrupt before you see anything
lol! hmmm...i dunno whether orange do there own mobile tv, they must do don't they?
awave
[ This Message was edited by: awave on 2006-06-12 17:51 ]