"ScottW" wrote in message
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soundhaspriority wrote:
"ScottW" wrote in message
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http://www.i4u.com/article6402.html
In addition to ipod functionality..
this is one of the first generation new TV phones. LGE has one in
test
as well.
The DMB function is Qualcomms mediaflo.
http://www.qualcomm.com/mediaflo/index.shtml
They bought spectrum (UHF channel 55 IIRC) and will
begin offering digital broadcast in most major metro centers by year
end.
Verizon has already signed up to offer the service to their
subscribers.
ScottW
Thanks, Scott, for the heads up. Although I am professionally involved in
media creation, I am personally more of a data/text person.I carry a
subnotebook everywhere I go, and two EDGE data terminals: one card, one
phone. When available I may add a Sprint EVDO rev A card, or simply
upgrade
to T-Mobile's coming HSPDA. I actually prefer to view static websites.
In
terms of media leverage, however, video is where it's at.
There will be universal phones available in a year... but I'm not sure
if they've worked out the kinks with the network operators...
for example can you pick the fastest data service available without
incurring some ridiculous roaming fees?
Have to wait and see on that one.
Why can't you use your phone as modem?
I can and I do. But I used to have a Nokia 6820, which is only an EDGE Class
6 device.
Do they allow the
data card and phone to share time/data service on one account or is it
considered
two numbers?
I swap the SIM card. The tradeoffs are as follows:
1. The Sierrra 775 card is a Class 12 EDGE device - 4 slots down/up. It has
a large power budget, with a Blackfin software radio and 2watts/800mHz,
1watt/1900 mHz.
2. The HTC Wizard is a Class 10 EDGE device - 4slots down/1 up.It doesn't
have the power budget. It seems to have additional latency over that
inherent in GPRS/EDGE. It used to be that Google would seldom load. It
appears that sites that were Ackamai hosted would load, but others with
large back ends would not. I haven't checked since I installed the new AKU
2.0 ROM image, but this is why I bought the card.
Currently, T-Mobile charge nothing for domestic roaming. There is good
signal in much of the southwest. There is also bad signal in much of the
southwest. The Northeast is very good, frequently providing downlink at the
theoretical maximum EDGE speed of 236 kbs. People who use Sprint EVDO for
onsite service in suburban Philly report mediocre coverage, with dropback
most of the time to 1xRTT. Now my old standbys, the T-mobile hotspots are
giving me trouble. The installations did not anticipate local competition.
In many seats, one cannot log into their vaunted 802.1x network, sometimes
not even their open network.
So it's very much a crapshoot. The coverage maps are not truthful. The
purpose of another connection card would be to increase the chances of
broadband.
HTC has a new phone, the TYTN,
http://www.europe.htc.com/products/htctytn.html, which actually has
universal triband HSPDA coverage on top of UMTS, EDGE, and GPRS. However,
reports are that the phone simply cannot host a modem connection at full
speed, which is faster than Bluetooth 2.0. I don't have any data on phones
that can act as a broadband modem without a speed penalty, but I know of
several that cannot. New HTC models seem to have buggy ROM code. It took
them six months to straighten out the Wizard. It would seem that because PC
cards are simpler devices with larger power budgets, they should be assumed
more reliable, in the absence of substantial user experience with 3G phones
for laptop data.