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Could someone confirm this for me? I took a quick search, but couldn't find anything in the forum. I saw something saying edge would cut out if you placed a call, which I'm fine with. I'm not sure if you would consider this a bug, but I don't know what the best course of action would be.

I'm on AT&T edge, and I'm currently downloading openarea (200+meg) because of wapa wifi issues with my router, and I don't receive calls while it's downloading. I know edge only supports data or voice, so should phone take priority over the app manager, or should you at least be given a choice? I'm curious if this also happens while streaming audio, or anything with a constant data stream, or if it's just specific to the app manager. I have about another 2-3 hours left to download, so I won't be able to check if it's just the app manager for a while
 
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That's not specific to the N900, that happens to most phones that are on Edge. It's mostly non-problematic. I've streamed internet radio and received calls just fine. Same thing with downloading files or watching youtube videos. The connections just pause until the call ends then they continue.
 
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I just ended up canceling the download and closing out app manager, and I see the same thing with streaming podcasts through the browser.

The phone calling me just rings on the other end and goes to voicemail, with no notification on the n900.
 
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Could someone else in the US with AT&T verify this for me? I can live with all the other minor bugs, but this is a major issue to me.
 
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This is not a bug. It happens to phone. Your N900 only spports Edge with AT-T network so you will either receive voice or data at a given time; not both. If you want a 3G service with the N900, you'd need to switch to T-mobile.
 

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So there's no way in software for the n900 to drop a data stream when a call is incoming and switch to voice?

I can't use T-Mobile, I don't get service at my house or in my building at work.
 
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This is not a bug. When I used N95 with T-Mobile I only got EDGE service and I missed many calls while browsing.
 

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@Botev1912/x61

Thanks, I just wasn't sure if this was normal behavior.

Sucks, I love this device, but looks like I'll have to hold out until T-mobile expands their coverage, or the next version supports AT&T 3G bands :/
 
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