Anyone know when Tmobile will be releasing the MDA Vario II in U.S.?
What's the point? T-mobile lacks compatible 3G capabilities in the US...
I'm looking at getting myself a used Xperia X1, and I've seen both X1a and X1i for sale in my area.
Not being very sure what frequencies Rogers and Fido have in canada (and how the corresponding technologies affect the different receptions of the phone) , I was just wondering what the difference will be between theX1i and the X1a in therms of connectivity(or speeds?).
x1a don't do 30fps vga recording
x1i don't do 3g Internet on the usa networks
not sure about canada
so recording and frequencies are the only difference
Xperia in Canada
The Xperia that works in Canada is the X1a. The X1i is not compatible with Rogers & Fido 3G/3.5G.
I believe also the Rogers and or Fido, may be carying the X1 in the near future from what I have heard.
careful
you'll have to get the x1a for canada due to the missing 850 band for 3g
good news is that rogers recently upgraded their network.
second good news is though the x1a doesnt have as good video recording, however, as of this week, that can be upgraded. (just found out on google news) lol
rogers MIGHT be getting the x1 but still not comfirmed yet. and better yet, sony stores in the states. over sales in the states for x1 hasnt been doing too great. from what i've heard is that they might even slow down on producing x1 for usa. meaning, though rogers has exclusive with sony ericsson, theres still a high chance of the x1 not going to big in north america.
they've had too many issues with the x1a so far. issues with sony and htc and even x1a has problems on the north american 3g network.
just base on some stuff i've heard and read up on.
A news report issued today April 29th 2009 by Qualcomm states that Qualcomm has agreed to pay Broadcomm about USD$900m in royalties over the next 4 years for the stupid patent theft it was convicted of in late December 2007.
For those in Canada, US, South Americas, Aus, South Africa this ought to mean that HTC starts including UMTS 850Mhz capability in its' devices again, instead of dividing the world into a mess.
Perhaps we can hope for this to be cleaned up, anyway. There is no legal impediment I can find to prevent tri-band UMTS frequencies in Qualcomm CPU devices now.
AT&T, the largest 4G network operator in United States has confirmed that the pre-order for their variant of Samsung Galaxy S III will start from June 6.....
http://mirolta.com/2012/06/05/att-to-start-pre-order-for-samsung-galaxy-s-iii-from-june-6/
It looks like Sony may sell it unlocked on their site.
http://www.sonymobile.com/us/products/phones/
It would be awesome if I could buy Sony direct instead of through a reseller. Another reason not to pre buy from anyone and just wait impatiently for the eventual release.
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The US site has stated 'coming soon' since September 4th, hopefully Sony makes good on it this time because if 'soon' doesn't = 'the week of September 22nd' many potential buyers will either import from the UK or purchase something else.
I've already pre-ordered a Z3 compact from Handtec; the cost including shipping was much less than Sony will every sell it for in the US.
cschmitt said:
The US site has stated 'coming soon' since September 4th, hopefully Sony makes good on it this time because if 'soon' doesn't = 'the week of September 22nd' many potential buyers will either import from the UK or purchase something else.
I've already pre-ordered a Z3 compact from Handtec; the cost including shipping was much less than Sony will every sell it for in the US.
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Did Handtec say they would be releasing on the 22nd? I thought about maybe calling them tomorrow and asking... But you can save me the long distance call. Very excited about this....
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Did Handtec say they would be releasing on the 22nd? I thought about maybe calling them tomorrow and asking... But you can save me the long distance call. Very excited about this....
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I have not spoken to them directly, but both Clove and Handtec have listed on their sites they are expecting first stock on the 22nd. I'm sure they will have things ready to ship out pre-orders on the day they receive stock.
I was just wondering if handtec will be selling ones with LTE capabilities for the US. Looking at specs there are 4 different phones. Doesn't look like the D6603 is compatible with the US frequencies necessary. For T-Mobile I would need the D6643 or D6616. Would be great for some clarification.
GSMArena had me confused. Read the whitepaper here:
http://developer.sonymobile.com/downloads/group-whitepapers/
The D6603 model supports a wide variety of bands. UMTS HSPA+ 850 (Band V), 900 (Band VIII), 1700 (Band IV), 1900 (Band II), 2100 (Band I) MHz GSM GPRS/EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13, 17, 20) All this info is on Sony's white paper for the Xperia Z3.