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colnago is offline colnago
2010-01-26 , 22:57
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#11
Originally Posted by iamNarada View Post
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I would also like to humble request that there be multiple (at least 2) SIM slots, so that the very rich among us (there are some right?) can subscribe to multiple data plans and have the very fastest coverage everywhere!!!.
Its not just about "being rich" as it would be beneficial to have 2 SIMs if you require a 2nd phone for your job, making life a little easier without having to carry another phone.

Although having a dual SIM 900 now would be sweet as I have Att and TMo...it would provide some redundancy in some low signal areas.
 
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2010-02-04 , 16:32
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Originally Posted by Konceptz View Post
Sorry, I had to reply to this... "False marketing" is the most interesting statement I've heard in a while
Well at one point in time, advertising didn't mean lying and many businesses had honor. Amazing, I know.
 
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2010-02-05 , 00:25
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I would love for the next maemo device to have tmo 3g.

But why wouldn't nokia just use the chip that the new blackberry phones are using that support virtually all 3g bands.

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/...nger-relevant/
 
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2010-02-05 , 18:07
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Originally Posted by nMIK-3 View Post
WiMAX is just faster Wi-Fi that is designed to cover large cities. Nothing more nothing less. It's just Wi-fi technology and NOT a cellular standard completely different. The only recognizable 4G mode from the related associations is LTE.

The whole 4G/WiMAX fiasco that Spint is advertising is nothing more than false marketing.
You seem to be hung up and fired up over mere semantics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX
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nMIK-3 is offline nMIK-3
2010-02-05 , 21:47
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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
You seem to be hung up and fired up over mere semantics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX
Sorry I do not have time to read the whole WiMAX definition on Wikipedia, but if they state that WiMAX is 4G cellular technology or something similar sorry but they are simply wrong.

Comparing 4G with WiMAX is like comparing UMTS/WCDMA/HSDPA with WiFi. Completely different.
 
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2010-02-05 , 22:00
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Err, well actually, my understanding (probably wrong) was that as of the end of 2009 there were two candidate technologies that had been submitted to ITU-R (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU-R). These technologies are LTE Advanced (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE_Advanced) and 802.16m (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.16m) more commonly known as WiMAX. There currently seems to be more support for LTE and it's successor LTE Advanced, but at this point, both can be validly be called 4G.
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2010-02-05 , 22:13
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Simply put, my understanding is that WiMax is basically 'super wifi', not at all the same technology as LTE, though both could be called '4G' in a very general sense.

LTE should be cheaper to build, mostly because towers can be spaced farther apart. It also has the potential to be several times faster than WiMax.

I live in Sprint's hometown, but I avoid Sprint like the plague. They know not what they do.
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2010-02-05 , 22:22
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True, the underlying technology is different, but what I've read indicates the definition of 4G is being expanded.
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iamNarada is offline iamNarada
2010-02-05 , 23:41
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To echo Texrat, WiMAX is definitely not LTE, or based on the same technology. They're competing standards. Both are vying for the 4G crown. Note that technically, LTE is not 4G, and is not being advanced as such. That would be LTE Advanced, which is slightly different, conforms to the 4G requirments and is of course slight further in the future in terms of implementation.
 
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