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letter E on o2 signal bar |
haynesycop
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Your phone has to be compatible with edge, so depends what phone you have. It probably doesn't support edge if it isn't showing.
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cammerv8
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in my country we have EDGE only, theyr planning on activate 3G at year's ends. we got so much 3g-capable phone ansd they sont do shetlike EDGE enable phones!!!. but we life like that.
we recently got WIMAX!!!! thast a first in latinoamerica, so i migth get a wimax-phone!!!!!! |
Sammy_boy
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I've noticed this on my N95 too, though usually when I'm connected, e.g. checking mail or online. Though I normally only get this 'E' at work, EDGE hasn't quite reached me where I live on O2 I don't think! 
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Miss UK
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How come Nokia N80's support Edge but theres no charactor to show it on the phone 
btw ive always got 3G everywhere with mine,
the connection bar is abit odd sometimes it flashes and I don't know what it means
theres nothing to advise this in the manual 
my only guess would be something to do with Signal non available or something?
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Daedalus85
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Yes, officially O2 upgraded to EDGE about 3 weeks ago, or more, can't remember. It only works in good/strong coverage areas at the moment, but GPRS will continue to work.
For those who can't get it either:
-are too far from their nearest mast
-don't have EDGE
-or, the most common one, have a 3G phone, because WCDMA (3G) is faster than EDGE, therefore theres no need for it.
And yes, it's to tie in with that bloody Apple 'thing' they call a phone. I swear, if head office shove one more piece of "good god it's greater than GOD!" type marketing down our throats I might have to quit :/
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Why does it take the iphone for networks to change their systems? I cant see that the cost of upgrading to edge can be offset by the revenue created by the iphone.
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daviep
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probably so that the users of the iphone can have faster browsing and download speeds than with gprs alone since they cant have 3g. |
SP1
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The networks paid so much for the 3G licences they did not want to use EDGE.
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Residentevil
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Yep E stands for EDGE. An icon would look better on it. A letter is kinda boring.
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afaik not every symbians dispaly "e", some n and e series ( not sure in the last one ) dont
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Miss UK
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On 2007-11-03 10:33:22, Daedalus85 wrote:
Yes, officially O2 upgraded to EDGE about 3 weeks ago, or more, can't remember. It only works in good/strong coverage areas at the moment, but GPRS will continue to work.
For those who can't get it either:
-are too far from their nearest mast
-don't have EDGE
-or, the most common one, have a 3G phone, because WCDMA (3G) is faster than EDGE, therefore theres no need for it.
And yes, it's to tie in with that bloody Apple 'thing' they call a phone. I swear, if head office shove one more piece of "good god it's greater than GOD!" type marketing down our throats I might have to quit :/
you may have to quit 9th Novmber then,
imagine all the customers coming into store asking for a looky at it
Roll on the 9th actually my bill's out then ive had 2 nasty surprises the last 2, forleast this maybe the last one as I can leave 23rd
Boba, well my phone is constantley on 3G I guess it's better then edge
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darrengf
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@Miss UK
If your phone picks up a 3g signal then you will not pick up edge as well.
3g works on 2100mhz which doesn support edge, so when you phone is locked onto 3g it will state 3g.
However if you either switched of 3g in the menu, or went out of 3g coverage, then your phone will lock onto a 2g mast, and if you are in a area where the mast has been upgraded then you will have a little E on the phone.
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Miss UK
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Darren I knew that,
m phone doesn't display E but it has it btw so I have no idea which it's using all I know is it has 3G on it always
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makbil
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Some operators display the "E" as part of area information. Try to disable "Cell Information" and see if the "E" goes away.
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Daedalus85
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On 2007-11-04 01:47:29, makbil wrote:
Some operators display the "E" as part of area information. Try to disable "Cell Information" and see if the "E" goes away.
It's a UK thing, don't worry about it
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Posted: 2007-11-01 21:23
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