E90 will support U.S. 3G!!!

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if your argument is that nokia needs a major US 3G carrier to pick this phone up, b4 a NA version is actually produced (a la N80), i think the playing field has changed. i honestly could care less about UMTS 2100, but wouldn't be cheaper for Nokia, in the long run, to produce one quad band gsm and quad band UMTS, rather than producing different variations for different regions.

I hope Nokia realized that typically NA carriers like cheap phones, and to peddal their high-end phones in the US, they need alternate distribution, like their flagship stores. it looks to me, with the inclusion of both WCDMA 850/1900 AND 1700, that it'll be shopped around to both carriers, but even if neither picks up the e90 they can still sell it for use with BOTH Tmo and AT&Tingular 3G.

If it isn't 3g (Specifically 850/1900) i won't get it. But that's just me
 
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excellent
 
I was going to i.m. him, but he's never online when you want him to!

I feel like dancing. Too bad i'm in the library or I would've.
 
There's no official word that the two carriers are even going to carry it. One or both might pick it up (or not), and Nokia could just sell the phone themselves for use on both networks, kind of like what S.E. did with the N.A. version of the P910a.
 
hmm, I know they bought spectrum from 2100/1700 band, but I haven't seen any document saying that their uplink will be 2100MHz.
Technically, t-mo can deploy the uplink in the 1900mhz freq as well, making their 3G : 1900/1700. And with nokia having an active role in their 3G deployment, who knows!
 
What your saying makes perfect sense....unfortunately Nokia has a track record of not making sense. Why release the 8800 only to release the 850 (8801) variant less than a year later. It certainly cant be the "850" antenna as other people had claimed. If motorola can make the rzr quadband then any phone shouldnt be limited physically. Why release the 8800 scirocco with 900/1800/1900? Why not quadband as well? My point is that a NA carrier wont have to pick this up before they make it fully compatible here in the states....they just wont make it compatible. I dont see a carrier picking this up as the asking price will be too expensive for the average NA consumer. Nokia doesnt seem to think we're a priority so developing a phone that Tmob and Cingular might consider isnt a concern of theirs imo. I wish it was and I would think the E90 at least should have every bell and whistle throw into it. ......but I feel it wont.
 
hmm, you make a good point. For all you know, it might be quadband umts. The reason why only 850 and 1900 and 1700 are mentioned is bcos its relevant to the U.S., while 2100 is not. I guess that's why we don't see gsm 900/1800 on the list as well.
 
"Nokia E90 has lots of 3G Bands? Prove It!
Filed under: gadgets, nokia - 02 Mar 2007 23:46
I?m not sure where Engadget is getting their information, but based on everything that is publicly available, as well as private information I?ve seen in Nokia, I believe that the only 3G band supported on the Nokia E90 will be WCDMA 2100. I would love for Engadget to be right on this, though, but there?s no evidence they are.

We could always go with the Nokia E90 technical specifications page on Nokia?s site, but let?s go with the FCC documentation that Engadget links to. I poured through all of the PDF files and could not find a single page on any of the documents that matched the one they pictured in the story. Nothing in any of the documentation Engadget links to even mentions WCDMA 1700. You would think that WCDMA 1700 would appear in the SAR reports if it supported that band, don?t you think?

This is either sloppy reporting or someone is making this up. Or they?re talking about the phone after the Nokia E90. Whatever, but I have no reason to believe they?re right on this one."

This is from a Nokia employees blog! 'nuff said!



http://www.phoneboy.com/node/1364
 
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/03/02/nokia-e90-hits-fcc-with-lots-of-3g-bands-destination-t-mobile/

WCDMA 1700

Its coming to T-Mobile!
 
I don't think that you stand alone with that remark. Of course they wont that's why they are Nokia, and why we will forever have that / relationship with them. And I agree with a remark that someone made in the N75 thread, it seems to me that Cingular is increasingly become more and more like the Big "V" with there branding.
 
Will do..........have never seen a GUI of a Vodafone phone before.


I am 100% with ya on that one......I never realized what people meant on here when they said that until about 1-2 years ago when I bought an unbranded phone. It was like ....so much better IMO.
 
I agree! Nothing better than a quadquad. However, i'll believe the quadband UMTS when I see it! Perhaps the FCC is authorizing the importing of Cing/Tmo protos but I highly doubt a US carrier is picking this up!...although they did pick up the 9300. I'm very skeptical!
 
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