N73 3g in USA

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Blapperz

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I am really confused

I know that the n73/ie/me has 3g, but does it work in the USA? If not, which n series phone other than the n75 has 3g that works in the USA?

Thank You, and I am sorry if this has been asked before, I tried searching and couldn't find an answer.
 
Things to know about 3G:

Cingular uses 850/1900 UMTS/HSDPA
T-mobile (US) will eventually use 2100 (with 1700 upstream) UMTS/HSDPA
The rest of the world uses 2100 (with 2100 upstream, I believe) UMTS/HSDPA

Thus, no, the N73 will not work on any 3G in the US. The only 3G S60 device is the N75. There were a handful of prototype N80s that had it, but that's it.
 
OK so despite the fact that the n73 does not have 3g in the USA, would you still buy it? I am pondering whether I should get the n73ME for the awesome camera and music ability or if I should take the n75 for its ok camera and 3g. What do you think?
 
N73 hands-down. The N75's UMTS isn't THAT much faster than EDGE. The N73 dominates in form-factor (I don't particularly care for flips), camera, battery, memory management.
 
Because 2100MHz-1700MHz is the spectrum that was auctioned off by the FCC. 2100MHz is a large spectrum. Only a part of it was auctioned off.

Rest of the world uses 2100MHz-1900MHz for 3G.
 
So are we going to see a 3G "world" phone to cure the ills of the US screw ups, that has 850/900/1800/1900 gsm and 850/1700/1900/2100 UMTS? What a mouthful!
 
Its really surprising, my roommate uses an I-Mate JasJam (it has world 3G: 2100/1900 and 850/1900). He's on T-Mo as well.
He frequents DC a lot due to his classes and he said that he's been getting 3G coverage in DC on T-Mo, this past few weeks.

Maybe, T-Mo has some spare 1900MHz spectrum that it plans to use to give 2100/1900 3G? That would be awesome!
 
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