[maemo-users] N810 with GSM radio

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:38:47AM -0200, fcassia wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Matt Emson <memsom at interalpha.co.uk> wrote:
> > John Holmblad wrote:
> >> Having said that, and, given that there is a WIMAX
> >> version of the N810 I don't see an inherent technical or cost reason why
> >> there could not also be a version with a 2g/3g radio (GSM/HSDPA, or
> >> CDMA/EVDO) as well.
> >>
> > I suspect it would be GSM/HSDPA based, as this is what we use in Europe.
> > I'm not even sure if any carriers in the UK support EVDO? Probably, but
> > no one talks about it.
> 
> I can only speak about LatAm. Down here in Argentina, all carriers
> switched to GSM long ago. There's no one still selling CDMA based
> networks.
> 
> 3G afaik is HSDPA in the 1900 Mhz band.

3G is UMTS (or WCDMA); HSDPA is sometimes called 3.5G.

When I heard that 3G uses different frequencies in different countries,
and that not all 3G phones support all frequencies, I was rather
disappointed.

Marius Gedminas
-- 
If something has not yet gone wrong then it would ultimately have been
beneficial for it to go wrong.
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