On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 13:26 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > The N900 is unfortunately impractical in territories with no 1700 or > > 2100 band providers (or poor ones). > > For 3G, yes, but I live with 2.5G service as I'm almost always near a > WLAN AP. (I don't have 1700 or 2100 service near me). The N900 should be > able to provide voice calling from anywhere in the world. > > The frequency issue will be "fixed" with quad-band 3G MeeGo devices next > year. Oh, believe me, I'm waiting. (Comprehensive 3G support is actually still annoyingly rare; go chart out the availability of devices that can do 850/1900/2100 3G, it's still a surprisingly short list which gets rapidly shorter when you start keying in requirements like 'runs a decent version of Android' and 'has a good hardware keyboard'. This is mainly why I still use a somewhat antiquated Tilt 2.) I'm certainly not always near a WLAN AP; one of the most useful smartphone features for me is Google maps public transit navigation, and there ain't a WLAN AP on any city buses around here. =) > Even then, 3G carriers are overloaded and can hardly provide quality > service to stream video or download faster than EDGE-speeds. Video > calling is also a moot point as no USA carrier offers it and the > countries that do offer it, offer it at a high expense. You're better > off using Skype or XMPP via WLAN on the N900 for that. ;) Well, 'speak for yourself'. I get a pretty constant high-quality 4Mb/sec connection over HSPA here. It's hugely faster than EDGE, and I really would not want to step down to 2G (actually before reliable 3G was available I ran a Palm for a short while but then ditched it because I just can't deal with the slowness of 2G data and I never used the smartphone features; it took a decent 3G connection for me to really get to the point of using smartphone stuff.) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
