I live in the USA and have a T-mobile account. I was waiting patiently for a new phone that sports 3g AND UMA but it seems that all the new devices I am aware of apparently dont have the uma (which is a must for my billing purposes!)
What if I was to get my hands on a Touch3g and unlock it? Can it be programmed to work on tmobile-us's uma network? how about the 3g? It looks like it has ALL frequencies from the wiki page, does it actually come capable of everything, or do different operator phones have different freq's available?
I currently use an unlocked att tilt (aka kaiser) which does not support tmobile's 3g network (att is on different freq's), and doesn't have uma. I am familiar with modding/unlocking/upgrading the roms (with downloads, I cant do my own programming) but I really need a decent phone with uma support. Also, what could I expect to pay for one of these in good condition? Do they come with different keyboards from different areas (I once had a german device, and it took a long time for me to fix the keyboard buttons to do what they said!!!)
Thanks for all your help!
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Is it true that USA dont have a full 3G network yet,or any 3G network ?
Currently, the Jas jar is not big seller in the USA yet ?
Hence thats why the third party software tools and GSM adapters have not yet had the research monies spent on the Jas jar 2G and 3G functionality yet. Jas Jar is a 3G toy, and if the USA havent got it, the rest of the world is far to early.
I am correct or have I missed something.
The USA will never have a 3g network that will support the universal. Cingular as far as I know has a 1900mhz test network in the states and the 1800mhz utms that the universal has will never be an option in the US. This is do to the 1800mhz spectum that is reseved for police and other government entities. Sometime in 2007 they will auction off the rest of the 1900 mhz spectum and hopefully we can get some speed. We in the states are stuck with edge and edvo for now.
Mike
Thats interesting.
So what Pocket PC device is likely best suited for USA and ROW..as of right now, what brand will likely be global leader in all markets, UK, USA, Asia.
Thats has a good CPU, RAM, ROM, SD and device drive memory and data network connection.
The best product normally has the best support in the market place from third party software developers and manufactures.
Would that be Blackberry, HP, Apache.
I believe the Universal is suffering from the lack of third party support, (ie No Manufacture as made a GSM adapter for the Universal PPC, this also may HTC fault for selecting such a silly little male connector. ), software that works well with the switching from 2G to 3G etc
Please comment.
The best Pocket PC with good support here in the US is made by DELL. Their products are highly competitive to HP, Ipaq, Loox, etc...
The best smart phone in my opinion is still made by Palm, the Treo 650 running either MW5 or the Palm OS.
Even so, I would not trade my O2 Exec to either of them. I've waited so long for a PDA phone with a decent keyboard.
Well the fastest data phone in the US would be the apache from either Verizon or Sprint. Both Verizon and Sprint support EDVO. Or you can step down to a wizard and purchase one from Cingular or T-Mobile. Both Cingular and T-Mobile support edge. Its slower than EDVO but works. And if you want dial up speed go with a universal. It has GPRS. I use it on T-Mobile. I have unlimited data and hotspots. I am trying to hack my apache which is the Verizon phone xv6700 to get bluetooth to work and then send it to my univeral so I can watch my slingbox However all the service codes I have tried don't work. I have a beta rom. blah Anyways go for the apache for the best network speed.
Mike
Hello all,
I've been looking but haven't found the answer I'm hoping for
Out local teleco (MTS) is usually a couple of generations behind on hardware so the 6800 is not available here.
Bell Canada carries them as do, from what I can see, Sprint and Verizon...
My question if I was to acquire 1, is it possible to get it carrier unlocked so that I can get it connected to the MTS network...
Basically we need CDMA, 1xEVDO, wireless and a touch screen... if I cannot 'move' a 6800 to another carrier, is there one that anyone can suggest that meets these requirements?
thanks!
i dont think it needs to be "carrier unlocked" as it were, you just need a carrier that allows foriegn devices
My old Blackberry and several samsung phone as well as some others have the option that if you have wi-fi access, you can set your phone to use the wi-fi as the preferred method to place calls, basically turning your router into a cell tower. T-Mobile likes to sell this as their @home package or something for unlimited calling etc, but you can enable it without the package, it just uses your minutes, messages etc in your plan. Any chance these phones could be enabled with this option as an app or part of a ROM? I emailed HTC about it before T-Mobile released the phone and they said the phone was capable but that T-Mobile didn't have it put in their ROM. Wondering if this can be done?
Thanks
NO, not possible.
UMA would've been on the phone already.
and have you noticed?? all UMA capable phones don't have 3G? thats another reason why it will not work.
Hey everyone i live in the us and i wanted to know if the boost network is good and i know they have unlimited internet so i'm planning to get one but i want to know if it can work in my unlocked Hd-2?
I haven't looked at Boost much, but believe they are CDMA/iDEN as they a wholy owned by Sprint/Nextel here in the US.
I am not positive if Boost can be manually configured to run on your unlocked device but I can tell you that I have an unlocked GSM t-mobile wing and just for fun, with a current Boost chip from the iDen phones, I was unable to use the network wizard to automatically configure because of the lack of network settings for boost. Again, as SinisterJunkie pointed out, even with the proper settings, it is a completely different network and I believe it would be difficult to say the least.
ahhh thanx for your help ppl...i really just wanted the phone for internet but i mihgt get one to do a trail and error
As mentioned above, the only phones that are compatible with Nextel's iDEN network are Nextel phones and Boost Mobile phones and Southern Linc. Pretty much everything else is either CDMA or GSM and are not compatible. So the HD2 is not compatible with Nextel network since the device itself should have been designed to support iDEN network. There are also no touch screens that are compatible with Nextel as far as I know (I haven't been around their webpage for a long time). The only PDA's that I recall are compatible, are several Blackberrys and these are all branded Nextel (see Nextel's webpage).
hi guys,
has anyone added cdma support to any of the modified roms ?
I really could use it. i live too far away for any tmobile radio signal, and on my blackberry, that is how i connected to everything was with cdma.
thanks,
kevin rea
littlerock, calif.
your asking to be flamed at right now
CDMA and GSM are completely different hardware-wise, not just software. You can't use a GSM device on a CDMA network or vice versa by flashing the ROM, you need a whole different device with a CDMA radio in it. There is no CDMA HD2, so I'm afraid you're out of luck there.
If you want. cdma...get sprint evo 4g....
no....
i'm on tmobile., and have been before the hd2.., so i will just use my blackberry again.. at least i can make phone calls with it from home.., unlike the hd2.
kevin
are you talking about uma on your bb?
cant you make make wi-fi calling with the hd2 also?
Yes... you are correct.. UMA
that's what happens when you get old... the terminology escapes you.
yes, UMA.,
not cdma
I was wondering if anyone has been able to active UMA on the hdc hd2.
If you look on some online sites, i think they are european.., their specs on the hdc hd2 do say that the hd2 has the uma ability... but tmobile says that it is not in there.
thanks for helping me with the terminology.
kevin
well when i talked to t-mobile level 2 tech support they told me it supports wi-fi calling and he said it does not support uma only the blackberry phones for t-mobile have that ability
but you can always use google voice i believe it works through wi-fi and 3g but i'm not sure
Google voice is not VOIP atleast not as of yet.
radiohead7778580 said:
well when i talked to t-mobile level 2 tech support they told me it supports wi-fi calling and he said it does not support uma only the blackberry phones for t-mobile have that ability
but you can always use google voice i believe it works through wi-fi and 3g but i'm not sure
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They also told me that it was impossible to tether with any of their phones other then the Blackberry's. We all know that's BS.
Has anyone figured out if the HD2 is capable of UMA calling? I've searched all over the place and can't find an answer to this.
Thanks!