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A Detailed Review Of A 3G Phone And Network

Posted by timothy on from the melts-in-your-hand dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The NEC e606 and 3's recently launched 3G network has been reviewed at Mobileburn. They seem to be happy with the network, but the phone is buggy and unfinished. One cool thing is that you can download sample videos to see what 3G is really like."

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  1. 3G Rollout by aerojad · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just wondering, I haven't really heard much more about in a while, but whatever happened to the huge rollout of 3G services that we were promised back in 1999-2000. I remember one company in particular, Qualcomm, had wonderful times in 99 on the 3G hype, but it never really delivered as much as promised, and only had a huge rollout in Japan. Is that finally changing, and are these 3G phones that we look at actually ready to be used nationwide yet, or are we still talking major-city-only deals?

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  2. Poor coverage? by Archon-X · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A pilot friend of mine recently looked into getting a 3G phone, it'd be nice to be ableto see his wife and kids when doing long haul etc, but the major flaw that he could see wasn't the phone, but the covereage.. the 3G coverage is not global, in fact it's limited to a handful of countries apparently..

  3. Re:3G make for.... by tomstdenis · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Don't forget that with these higher speeds they can drop your calls quicker :-)

    Hey instead of making phones with high speed networks can we make DSL/cable setups with high speed networks? :-)

    Or howabout not charge an arm and a leg for anything todo with a phone. E.g. changing an ESN shouldn't cost money!

    That being said I'd certainly love the privilege of paying 0.30$/min to download 160x120 worth of crap at HIGHER speeds than I can [9600bps current or whatever CDMA is]. It's amazing reading websites one word per line. Wow!

    Tom

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  4. I have the sidekick by RzUpAnmsCwrds · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have an excellent GSM phone. It's a 2.5G GPRS device. It takes photos, albeit low-resolution ones. It has a nice color screen. It has AIM and SMS. It has a great microbrowser. And, to top it all off, it has an excellent *real* QWERTY keyboard. None of that "T9 predictive text entry" garbage... I can type 20 WPM on this thing. Think Blackberry, but spaced more. It runs a custom Java OS with a nice SDK. And the user interface is excellent.

    Add to that the fact that I get 200 voice minutes, 1000 weekend minutes, no roaming (anywhere in my country), no long distance (anywhere in my country).

    I also get unlimited GPRS data. Yeah, that's right. Last month I transferred 130MB of data.

    Oh, yeah, of course, and I can roam onto any GSM/GPRS network in my country (there are three major ones) and not pay roaming. And, of course, I can also switch to a different phone and keep my SIM card. Or switch to a different provider and keep my phone.

    All for about $40 per month.
    I paid nothing for the phone, but I had to sign up for a year.

    Any guesses where I live? It's the country with the first EDGE service. It's also the country with the most GSM towers.

    It's the USA.