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Can HSPDA and wifi 801.b/g be offered in new firmware? |
Anil Gidwani
Joined: Oct 06, 2004
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We are all undoubtedly taken aback that SE failed to include HSPDA and Wifi 802.11g in the P1i.
Can we expect these to be added in future via a firmware upgrade, or do these features require a hardware upgrade and therefore will be found only in the P5i?
Also, the P1i's specs on gsmarena show that it has HSCSD. What is that and is it related to the HSPDA?
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Anil Gidwani
Joined: Oct 06, 2004
Posts: 69
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From wikipedia:
> High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) is a 3G (third generation)
> mobile telephony communications protocol in the High-Speed Packet Access > (HSPA) family, which allows networks based on Universal Mobile
> Telecommunications System (UMTS) to have higher data transfer speeds and > capacity.
Well, the P1i has UMTS!
> HSDPA is part of the UMTS standards since release 5, which also
> accompanies an improvement on the uplink providing a new bearer of 384 > kbit/s. The previous maximum bearer was 128 kbit/s
The P1i supports 384 kbps (gsmarena specs).
> This protocol is a relatively simple upgrade where UMTS is already
> deployed.[1]
> [1] HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) is like having your home cable
> broadband experience delivered to your mobile phone or notebook.
> HSPA is part of the GSM 3G network and is (predominately) a software
> upgrade of the network infrastructure. To use the high speed variant, you > need a mobile device that is HSPA-enabled - most new mobile phones and > high-end notebooks have these as standard
Since HSPA is predominantly a software update, is there some hope that we can have HSPDA on the P1i if SE is petitioned seriously enough?
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jakontil
Joined: Jun 28, 2004
Posts: > 500
From: Changi, Chatswood, Cikarang
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hi,
i don't think you can have a non HSDPA device to function as HSDPA, unless if it's built in, and it's just a matter of activation through a firmware that it will run HSDPA eventually. such case was met in Treo 750V, formerly runnning only 3G non HSDPA, in the letter non Vodafone branded, the HSDPA feature was enabled through a ROM upgrade. but keep in mind, it already had the ability to run on HSDPA network.
and i am afraid, the wifi g has everything to do with its hardware, hence a firmware upgrade will not trigger the wifi g either
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NightBlade
Joined: Jul 29, 2007
Posts: > 500
From: Nessebar, Bulgaria
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On 2007-11-24 06:41:43, Anil Gidwani wrote:
We are all undoubtedly taken aback that SE failed to include HSPDA and Wifi 802.11g in the P1i.
Can we expect these to be added in future via a firmware upgrade, or do these features require a hardware upgrade and therefore will be found only in the P5i?
Also, the P1i's specs on gsmarena show that it has HSCSD. What is that and is it related to the HSPDA?
How optimistic. 
No, it's not possible. |
jakontil
Joined: Jun 28, 2004
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From: Changi, Chatswood, Cikarang
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hi,
HSCSD is old fashioned, kind of dial up stuff or something? might be wrong, but certainly it is step backward towards UMTS/3G 
hence it is nowhere near HSDPA
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