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Rhino8
Joined: Jan 07, 2005
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From: South Africa (Bloemfontein)
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What does the Sony 3g phones cost. And excuse the stupidity,but if i use 3g to surf wap will i pay 3g rates or gprs rates? |
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scotsboyuk
Joined: Jun 02, 2003
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From: UK
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@Rhino8
Which handset are you enquiring about, the Z1010 or the V800?
Data prices are provided by your network, but Vodafone in the UK seem to use the standard GPRS charges for their 3G customers, the difference being that one can download data a lot faster.
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OluYom
Joined: Oct 27, 2004
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Z1010 costs about US$715 here in Nigeria. @Scots: I hear inserting a 2G SIM in a 3G phone can damage either or both SIM & phone, but I see people running around here with a 16k 2G SIM on 3G NECs, Motos & SEs. How can this be?
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Debu
Joined: Jan 15, 2003
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From: Colchester, UK
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The Z1010 is a dualmode phone, so, i don't think that either sim or handset would get damaged. |
OluYom
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@Debu: I see. Thanks.
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Debu
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@aya: Glad to help
this should help you guys |
Dragonfly_TP
Joined: Aug 11, 2004
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From: Belgium
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either you use GPRS via GSM (slow)
or GPRS via UMTS (3G) (fast)
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Debu
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@dragonfly : you will find yourself wrong there. When using GSM, one may use EDGE, which has speeds upt 384kbps. WCDMA (or UMTS in Europe) uses an entirely different tecnology called RTT data tranfer, whilst EDGE is based on gprs, RTT is very different. |
MsJ
Joined: Dec 20, 2004
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Thats right! I'v just got a Nec338 which is on 'network three' (three.co.uk) i thought it wud hav the 2g gprs / wap browser aswel as the 3g services. But can only seem to get 3's services! Wud b glad of any1s advice on this thanks!
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scotsboyuk
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@MsJ
3 restrict their customers to their own content, menaing that you cannot access the wider internet or use your handset as a modem.
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nobody__1
Joined: Nov 29, 2004
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From: Sweden
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In sweden z1010 costs about 950kr that is about 200$ Us |
Debu
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 $200 ?! wtf!!! thats damn cheap for a 3g phone.
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MsJ
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The fone features include a 2.5 gprs browser. I wudnt mind if i lost the 3g services If i cud unlock the fone from '3'..
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Aivar
Joined: Jan 14, 2003
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From: Estonia
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On 2005-01-17 09:19:46, Debu wrote:
@dragonfly : you will find yourself wrong there. When using GSM, one may use EDGE, which has speeds upt 384kbps. WCDMA (or UMTS in Europe) uses an entirely different tecnology called RTT data tranfer, whilst EDGE is based on gprs, RTT is very different.
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Actually UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) and 3G (Third Generation Mobile System) means the same thing. 3G/UMTS networks are using WCDMA (Wideband Code-Division Multiple-Access) technology.
Other 3G/UMTS networks are: CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA etc.
Read more from here: http://www.umts-forum.org/ser[....]ive/en/umts/What+is+UMTS_index
But you can get even more complicate information: http://www.umtsworld.com/umts/faq.htm#f16 |
nobody__1
Joined: Nov 29, 2004
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From: Sweden
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Japp thats cheap...The operator three had a outsale on the z1010 and solde them for 200$ |
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Posted: 2005-01-10 18:21
