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Topic: Cell phones are 3G but on a 4G network?
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Stephen Furley
Film God
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From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
Registered: May 2002
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posted 02-15-2010 02:33 AM
I have a 3G 'phone, but I keep it locked on 2G almost all the time. In many of the places that I go 3G service is marginal, and it keeps flipping between the two, which drains the battery much faster. It makes no difference to voice or text, and even internet access is fast enough with GPRS for things like reading a few e-mails, or checking the news headlines.
You need 3G to make video calls, I think I can live without that, or to play streaming media from the Intranet, and web pages load more slowly on 2G.
[ 02-15-2010, 10:53 AM: Message edited by: Adam Martin ]
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Julio Roberto
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 938
From: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Registered: Oct 2008
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posted 02-15-2010 04:02 PM
Buy one with the new windows phone 7. They are pretty awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMH0Zkr1NQE
Also, this upcoming Samsung looks really nice.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/14/samsung-wave-first-hands-on-bada-packed-and-super-fast/
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Samsung's press conference just got underway in Barcelona, and one of Mobile World Congress' first smartphones to debut this year is a real doozy. The Wave (S8500) that we've heard so much about lately is finally official, and it's the first handset to ship with Bluetooth 3.0. It's also packing 802.11n WiFi, TouchWiz 3.0 and the company's own Bada mobile platform. You'll also get a 3.3-inch "Super AMOLED" (saywha?) display, and while the 800 x 480 resolution is just dandy. Digging into the internals, you'll find a 1GHz processor, 5 megapixel camera, aGPS, accelerometer, 2GB or 8GB of internal storage space, a microSD expansion slot, multi-codec support for DivX, XviD, MP3 and WMV, and support for virtual 5.1 surround sound and 720p recording / decoding. The company's also touting its mDNIe (mobile Digital Natural Image engine) technology, which is already used in its LCD and LED TV lineups; in other words, this phone is probably one of the better ones for multimedia viewing (so long as you don't venture under direct sunlight, of course). It'll be available worldwide starting in April, but unfortunately pricing remains a mystery.
Phones are now doing 720p playback/recording with a 5Mpixel camera.
Soon they'll be doing 2K ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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Stephen Furley
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From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
Registered: May 2002
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posted 02-26-2010 07:25 AM
And there is, or at least was in working prototype form, one with a projector built in. Ideal for the 'Happy Slappers' to show the recordings of their victims.
I wish they'd drop a lot of this junk; it seems almost impossible to find a simple basic 'phone these days. The thing I'd most like to see a total ban on would be the ability to play 'music' in horribly distorted form through the speaker. It drives me mad to have three or four lots of this going on at the same time on the bus going to work every day.
It was always said that 3G coverage in the US was well behind Europe. My 'phone can do 3G and tri-band (900, 1800 and 1900 but not 850) GSM 2G. I tried enabling the 3G yesterday while waiting at the EWR station in Newark, and no 3G service. Same in Hoboken NJ. Whether the means that there is no 3G service in those locations, or that the network that I can roam on doesn't support it, or that the 3G here is a flavour not supported by my handset, a Sony Ericsson K610i, I'm not sure. I'll try it in Manhattan later, if I can get there through the snow!
In the UK we tended to jump from basic GSM direct to 3G, there was little support for 2G enhancements like EDGE, which I think are more widely used elsewhere. In the UK 3G is quite widespread, but there are plenty of places where it's not available. Everywhere that I've been able to get 3G has supported HSDPA, though the speed has always been well short of the theoretical maximum, almost never more than about 1 Mb/s.
Unless you're using a 'phone as a modem to connect a laptop to the Internet, which I don't normally do as I have a separate USB modem, I don't see 3G as being any great benefit. Most of he Internet applications you can use on the 'phone itself are quite usable on GPRS. You really don't need 3G if all you want to do is read a few e-mails.
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