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

actually, the state park I was in has great service. I've just grown up where camping is a no-electronics activity. Other than using my phone as a digital cam, it's honestly kinda nice to completely unplug for a few days.
 
If the E90 does come out with USA 3G bands 850/1700/1900, I wouldn't expect either T-Mobile or Cingular to pick it up. I think it is too much phone for them to handle. Buying unlocked/unbranded though will be quite expensive at first.
 
I agree...that's what i've been saying all along. Rcadden hit it on the head when he said it could be an "A" version and a "B" version. If that's the case then we've got the usual 9-12 month wait for our "B" version. And that doesnt guarantee that it will cover all of the US 3G bands.....of course I only care about cingulars.
 
Seems the US model E90 would be under product code RA-7. So I guess we need to watch the FCC site for that code.

http://www.nokia-tuning.net/index.php?s=modeltype
 
Nice find...that leads us closer an A and B model then. Or 1-2 like the E70. Either way it should spell uS3g possibly as the Euro model is already slated to be quadband. If that's the case then why produce 2 different versions with the same frequencies. I guess we can still hope and pray huh?
 
My guess is that a US version will depend on Cingular or T-Mobiles interest in the E90 as a 3G handset offering. Being quad band I am sure the US will get it, but just maybe not through any carriers. Also possible that T-Mob or Cingular could pick it up as a non-3g model. I kinda have a feeling though that the integral nature of SIP in S60 3rd ed. phones has Cingular and T-Mo afraid to offer them with 3g or wifi. Look at the E62(no wifi even though it was on the E61), lack of the N80 with 1900 CDMA, and slowness of the N75 to arrive. Can almost garuntee the Cingular version of the N75 is having the SIP stuff hidden or hacked out. Shoot, the Cingular SIM's actually lock out my ability to manually pick a network on my 9300!! I put in a T-Mo sim and the ability returns. Makes it a real pain when overseas and there are a couple networks in range, but maybe only one offers GPRS or EDGE. Tried to get Cingular to give me a different SIM that didn't lock this feature out and couldn't even get them to admit it did.
 
My Cingular SIM does this as well (I believe just about ALL Cingular SIMs do this except some very old PacBell SIMs), however, when using my phone overseas, I was able to select networks. My guess is the SIM looks at the country code of the tower, and will display the correct tower alpha tag from the tower and DOES allow network selection.

Also, some phones will not honor the SIM card request to display "Cingular" all the time and will allow network selection. I had an iMate PDA2K about 2 years ago and it allowed network selection and displayed the actual tower alpha tag with my Cingular SIM.
 
haha guys, I'm back. Photos from the trip are of course on Flickr, you can grab the link from the site in the top bar.

Yeah I read all the stuff about the E90 and the N95 being US 3G, and I have to say, I'm more convinced that IF either is true, that they're going back to the old "a" and "b" version tactics of yesteryear. Which means the US is STILL in the dark.

However, I haven't fully read everything or browsed through the FCC myseelf, so I can't officially comment. It was a great camping trip, btw, i've got about 40+ tabs open with stuff that i need to post on. But first it's a shower for me and a bath for the mutt.

Rest assured, whatever the first US 3G s60 that comes out is, I'll have one.
 
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