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hsdpa phones - faster than broadband! |
henry kong
Joined: Dec 25, 2006
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From: singapore
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you have probably heard of 3g phones
these days, the attention is to a new generation of phones
called hsdpa phones or 3.5g phones
this new technology is to offer phones the speed of broadband
so that you can not only surf the web with the greatest of speed
but watch streaming tv, movies and videos as well
- this is truly groundbreaking technology
i have been selected to test drive this high speed hsdpa highway
by m1, one of singapore's top 3 telcom company
i have a blog going and posted my experiences there - pop down and have a look see
http://samsung.vintedge.com/z560/blog
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Dragonfly_TP
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yawn... well I have here a mobile connect card from Vodafone and I can now download 1,8 megabit/s and upload 384 mbit/s. Next year (2007) this will be 3.6 down and 1.8 up and by 2009 the speed will be 14.4 down and 3.6 up. Pretty fast if you ask me... but I have a cheap adsl connection of 4mbit, but a medium connection is 20mbit and a premium is 100mbit and what will broadband be by 2009? 1 gigabit? there are already places on earth where 1 gigabit is standard and 100 gigabit will be there within 2 years. So yes HSDPA (and HSUPA) is pretty fast for a mobile connection, but will never be anywhere near a real broadband connection.
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jepaz
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This HSDPA phone can function as a modem to your computer via the cable or BT which I think better than surf thru the phone's screen. |
mustafabay
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And then there will be Wimax................
I don't want a signature anymore. |
Krubach
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I bet HSDPA can't beat my 24Mb/s ADSL2+ braodband connection. 
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henry kong
Joined: Dec 25, 2006
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the singapore m1 telco loans out a usb vodaphone modem
which makes it every convenient to surf the web
on a desktop or notebook
no need for a wifi connection
it's 3.5 g all the way
for more info, click below
http://samsung.vintedge.com/z560/blog
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On 2006-12-25 13:10:53, Dragonfly_TP wrote:
yawn... well I have here a mobile connect card from Vodafone and I can now download 1,8 megabit/s and upload 384 mbit/s. Next year (2007) this will be 3.6 down and 1.8 up and by 2009 the speed will be 14.4 down and 3.6 up. Pretty fast if you ask me... but I have a cheap adsl connection of 4mbit, but a medium connection is 20mbit and a premium is 100mbit and what will broadband be by 2009? 1 gigabit? there are already places on earth where 1 gigabit is standard and 100 gigabit will be there within 2 years. So yes HSDPA (and HSUPA) is pretty fast for a mobile connection, but will never be anywhere near a real broadband connection.
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dlreyes
Joined: Apr 17, 2002
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That USB Device looks like the Huawei E220 which we have been using here for the past 3 months.
The software which comes with it is capable of sending and receiving SMS but unfortunately no voice calls. |
andy_t0
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On 2006-12-26 13:16:11, Krubach wrote:
I bet HSDPA can't beat my 24Mb/s ADSL2+ braodband connection.
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I bet the customer service can - I surely look forward to a day when I can dump my hopeless home ISP (have been through several, and they're all pretty useless) and go properly wireless with just one connection. I don't spend my life uploading and downloading thousands of meg a day from my home PC - if you do, fair enough, fixed-line will, for the foreseeable future, have a higher bandwidth. But personally, between a solid 2 Mbps or a flaxy, outage-peppered 8 Mbps, I'll take the steady option, thanks...
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henry kong
Joined: Dec 25, 2006
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From: singapore
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with only 2 weeks left on my tests of the m1 3.5g - samsung hsdpa z60
i have posted my findings at
http://samsung.vintedge.com/z[....]time=12/26/2006%206:53:00%20AM
and
http://samsung.vintedge.com/z[....]tetime=1/1/2007%203:37:00%20PM
is hsdpa and 3.5g all that it claims to be?
is it time for live tv and streaming video?
get the hard facts at the links above |
JK
Joined: Feb 24, 2005
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 We have this for the past 8 months, just launching HSUPA at the moment.
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Chrispy
Joined: Jan 20, 2006
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From: Auckland, New Zealand
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lawl. Sure beats my dial up connection :/
t68i (dead), t630 (sold), s700 + 128mb (lost), P990i + 1gb (sold) Nokia N73 ME (sold) Currently: K750i, W810i + 1gb, W580i (gray) + 4gb
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carkitter
Joined: Apr 29, 2005
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From: Auckland, NZ
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Sure, in urban areas and new residential/ commercial developments where latest technology cabling is installed you potentially can get 100 Gig+ broadband through your landline connection...
But in suburban areas where the underground copper wiring used to be connected 30 years ago to dial phones (I remember those) and rural low density areas especially the third world, Wireless connections are the future. HSDPA wnd WiMax will soon overtake the speed of broadband in these areas and provide connections where broadband is not available.
Constant improvement of underground cabling in all but 'flagship' urban commercial and government buildings will become impractical, I suspect.
I've been trying to jettison the landline for over 18 months. Finally Vodafone NZ have come to the party. WiMaxand UMTS/HSDPA leave landlines for dead IMO.
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Posted: 2006-12-25 08:32
