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I hope someone can answer me this question, please. I want to hopefully understand something before I purchase a Blackstone. My phone carrier is AT&T, and I live in an area that has 3G coverage. Supposedly this area also has HSDPA. I understand already that the HD will not work on AT&T's 3G, but will it work on the HSDPA? I *think* that HSDPA would be fast enough, yes? I tried to look this up, but I am not 100 percent sure of what I am reading... please all, forgive that I didn't understand enough to figure this out myself. Is there someone out there who also has this carrier and can verify that I will be able to surf faster than EDGE? I want to eventually use the secondary camera of the device to make video calls - I have Deaf family members who can be contacted by videophones and I want to do that some day with the HD!! Any and all help is apprecated.
u prolly have your answer by now, but i can fill in here...
HSDPA will work... i have an experia that won't say3G, but does say H and i'm getting speeds of 1100kbps which is 3G speeds... so you are good to go on that part...
As for video calling... you won't get it... i'm not gettin it at all even tho i have modified my phone for it to work... its an AT&T thing... apparently they maybe supporting it in the next few months (so i've read)... knock on wood cuz that would be ground breaking for the USA
HSDPA will not work. HSDPA is a form of 3g (HSDPA/HSPA/UMTS). The HD does not support At&T or any other US carrier 3g frequencies. You will have EDGE
Svegetto said:
HSDPA will not work. HSDPA is a form of 3g (HSDPA/HSPA/UMTS). The HD does not support At&T or any other US carrier 3g frequencies. You will have EDGE
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technically, neither does the x1i i have... but in the discription it does say 850/900/1800/1900 for both phones...
and my phone does not say E... it says H... the hardware are almost identical between the 2 phones...
there were alot of naysayers about the x1i and 3g speeds... but when i got it, popped in the sim card... my internet was BLAZING....
Connectivity: Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
WCDMA / HSPA: 900/2100MHz. HSDPA 7.2 Mbps
as you can see, the HD supports 3g on 900/2100 (which US networks do not operate 3g on). Although 850 is a 3g frequency for at&t, the HD does not search for HSDPA on that frequency and only for EDGE and, therefore, you'll only get EDGE
Svegetto is correct. I have the HD and I am on AT&T. All I get is the big E. It is faster than it used to be, but it is still Edge.
Hello everyone, im about to purchase a brand new HTC HD T8285 from Telstra, Australian carrier.
Im just worried about the 3G compability in my country (1900mhz), because they say it works with AT&T, but they operate under 850mhz and 2100mhz i thing... so i need to make myself sure if this model allows WCDMA under 1900mhz witch is the 3G band of my carrier in Chile.
Thanks in advance for any usefull information,
By the way i found this link that says at specs it does run under 1900mhz... but im not sure...
http://www.negrielectronics.com/touch-pocket-t8285-unlocked-p-2387.html
at&t uses the 850 mhz and 1900mhz bands for 3G access. the Telstra version only supports 850mhz and 2100mhz bands. as far as i know, the Telstra HD and UK HD do not support the 1900mhz 3G band. by the way, the specs on that link are WRONG! it only works on at&t's 850 3G band.
cortez.i said:
at&t uses the 850 mhz and 1900mhz bands for 3G access. the Telstra version only supports 850mhz and 2100mhz bands. as far as i know, the Telstra HD and UK HD do not support the 1900mhz 3G band. by the way, the specs on that link are WRONG! it only works on at&t's 850 3G band.
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just got ths answer from Telstra. i have seen someplaces that HTC misstyped this information in the user manual... i thing i must live without it...
Dear Rodrigo, Thank you for your email dated 26/4/09 regarding the HTC Touch HD model. We are happy to assist you. According to our records, it shows that the HTC Touch HD model has a network frequency band of 1900MHz. For further assistance regarding the HTC Touch HD model, please refer via http://www.htc.com/or you may call Customer Service Hotline at 125 111, Monday to Friday between 8:00AM to 7:00PM for clarification regarding this matter. Please do not hesitate to contact us via www.telstra.com if you require further information or assistance. Thank you for choosing Telstra. Yours sincerely,RuskyD315272Telstra Representative
rocho said:
just got ths answer from Telstra. i have seen someplaces that HTC misstyped this information in the user manual... i thing i must live without it...
Dear Rodrigo, Thank you for your email dated 26/4/09 regarding the HTC Touch HD model. We are happy to assist you. According to our records, it shows that the HTC Touch HD model has a network frequency band of 1900MHz. For further assistance regarding the HTC Touch HD model, please refer via http://www.htc.com/or you may call Customer Service Hotline at 125 111, Monday to Friday between 8:00AM to 7:00PM for clarification regarding this matter. Please do not hesitate to contact us via www.telstra.com if you require further information or assistance. Thank you for choosing Telstra. Yours sincerely,RuskyD315272Telstra Representative
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not sure what this email is confirming. the Telstra HD does include the 1900mhz EDGE band, which is slower than 3G. as you say in your post..if you bought the Telstra HD, you will have to live without 3G. life will not be too bad because you will at least have EDGE access. you should be happy tho... the HD is a good WM phone...
I just got my T8285
I get 3G and the H bar all the time in Brooklyn and Queens and Long Island I love it . When I had the T8282 there was nothing no 3G at all next time I will wait for the right bandwiith
rickytr23 said:
I get 3G and the H bar all the time in Brooklyn and Queens and Long Island I love it . When I had the T8282 there was nothing no 3G at all next time I will wait for the right bandwiith
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Which radio are you using? Stock? Or did you flash a new one? My HD is enroute and I am downloading everything I need so that my switchover from my Kaiser will be painless
Is this phone available in the US and if so, what network will it work on?
Thanks!
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No,
You can try to get HD model T8285 from telestra australia- say from e-bay which works on some of the US 3G bands. If you search this forum you will get tons of details on this
I use it on tmo usa, but of course it has no usa 3g at all. It is very snappy on edge tho and I'm having a very pleasent experience with it.
The Telestra HTC T8285 from Australia works wonderfully. I am very happy with it.
I have the Telestra HTC T8285 and it works great in my area. But it will only get 3G speeds on AT&T and then you have to be in a area supported by the 850 band. No 3G on Tmobile
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I use it on tmo usa, but of course it has no usa 3g at all. It is very snappy on edge tho and I'm having a very pleasent experience with it.
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is edge free?
Hi,
I'm currently living in Europe (France) but I will be moving to California (San Francisco) in early December. I own a blackstone, which I bought here in France.
How should I expect it to work in San Francisco? From what I understood, I might not enjoy 3G+ ... Is that true?
Any informations welcome
it will not have 3G service. Only the Tesla model will work with 3G in the states. My touch HD works works vary well in San Fran but it is the ausy model
As stated there is no 3G service.
However, plenty of free WiFi areas.
Ok, thank you very much! I guess there IS a 3G service, but my phone isn't compatible, right? In that case I'll just sell my phone before moving ... Or is it possible that there is still no 3G service in SF??
mephisto3333 said:
Ok, thank you very much! I guess there IS a 3G service, but my phone isn't compatible, right? In that case I'll just sell my phone before moving ... Or is it possible that there is still no 3G service in SF??
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3G service in available in all major US cities; your phone needs to have the right US 3G bands. for at&t the 850/1900 band is used for 3G, for T-Mobile (i believe) it's 1700/2100.
what he said, so make sure the phone you buy next is North america 3G compatible (850-1900htz 3G). My Blackstone only has 850 htz 3G but I have never had a area where my ATT fuze was 3G and my Touch HD(ausy model) wasn't.
Okay, all clear now. Thanks a lot for all your help.
Cheers
I want to get a Nexus S for myself, the unlocked without contract one, because I would like to use it in my home country (Malaysia).
So I would like to confirm one thing before I proceed:
I saw this from BestBuy forum FAQs:
Will an unlocked Nexus S work with carriers other than T-Mobile?
Yes, but it won’t run on 3G with all carriers. Speed and power will be reduced on non-3G networks.
Is that means that even though Nexus S did support the 3G band of my home country, it won't run on the 3G network?! Means that I can't use the 3G in my home country?
Anyone have answer for this? Anyone tried buy N1 and got the 3G working in country outside US?
gotta be 1700/2100 MHz i believe
Wont' work. Malaysia uses 2100mhz band for 3G.
The Nexus S on T-Mobile uses BOTH 1700/2100mhz AT THE SAME TIME for 3G.
It will work fine since the 3G band in Malaysia is 2100MHz and the Nexus S supports those bands.
I had the Nexus One (T-Mobile Version) in Thailand and it worked perfectly fine on 2100MHz 3G. My N900 worked as well.
Don't listen to nxt or slowz3r they have no idea of what they are talking about.
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Anyone have answer for this? Anyone tried buy N1 and got the 3G working in country outside US?
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You wont have a problem with most 3g phones in Malaysia - most of the rest of the world uses standard frequencies and the nexus s and nexus 1 work just fine.
If a phone works in Europe then it'll be fine in malaysia, and indeed most of the rest of the world.
Most of the noise on here is from people in the US where there are some weird frequencies being used... you can only use 3g on T-Mobile there -at+t uses different frequencies, and sprint and Verizon use a completely different technology.
Thank you for all the useful replies!
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