Thread: Dr. Ari Jaaksi on Maemo 5
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nilchak is offline nilchak
2008-09-24 , 17:06
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Originally Posted by Benson View Post
Yeah, but there are also dumbphones (e.g. my Nokia 3555, which is S40) with 3G. What you'd really use it for, besides tethering, is beyond me. The display is horribly low-res, the browser is horribly pathetic, and it reminds me why so many dupes think the iPhone invented the practical mobile web. (I've only tried the built-in browser, as I've been unable to get Opera mini working on it so far, but haven't tried hard.) The whole point of it, to me, was a modem.
While the 3355 is 3G, it is only UMTS mode - which is far less than HSDPA and has a bad latency.

Obiously Nokia is targetting the N900 with HSPA since anything less hardly adds to the VOIP capability.

I have used a UMTS phone with my N810 and seriosuly, in USA at least you cant use a UMTS for a Gizmo video call in any decent way. At least a simple voice acll is still possible but not too good.

A true HSDPA phone on the other hand can be used for a video call. And any HSDPA phones are all smartphones - and costly. So the cheap dumbphone as a addon to the IT is not a very valid point - at least not yet.