I am from Sweden and have a prepaid USB Comviq Surf 3G Dongle,
I thought with our collective minds we could try to get it to work on our A500's
I know that the modem itself is ZTE.
Come on Swedes! Let's help each other.
PS: Maybe there should be a thread for each country so that we/they can get their 3G on! Know what i'm sayin'? Peace ya'll!
Cheers!
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Hi,
I have a Jasjar and i am going to travel to Bali and thailandia. I would like if my jasjar will work as phone is those countries (gsm band) and also if there will be GPRS/UMTS avability.
Thans
Hi,
I'm sure you will enjoy thailand and bali. I'm not sure if you are on holliday that you really want your GSM to work. Sounds like a phone addiction to me ;-)
Anyway. You GSM band will work, and you will be able to send and receive phone calls. Roaming charge will cost you one or two lives, and I would'nt give my number to my best ennemy, as a simple phone call could cost you horrible charge.
For GPRS/UMTS, thailand and bali are third world country. You can find some wifi hotspots, but definitly no 3G. And GPRS is not hte main business feature there.
Funnily, you have a great 3G network in malaysia, which is in between. Guess you can't have the nice beaches and the network coverage ;-)
You have some prepaid card service but mostly expensive, and usually bundled with a phone.
Don't worry for electricity, don't bring your solar charger, except if you plan to go on a lonely island far far away. You always get a plug there. Take your plug convertor, it's dual round pin there.
Hope this help!
Sure, Thanks
Hi
i went to Bali and Thailand several times.
And the GSM network their is in my opion one of the best!
You can buy an prepaid card in Thailand for around 200 Baht (4 us dollar). With this you get a phonenumber and some fee!
So you can call in the country very cheap because of the fact you have and number of Thailand. People that will call you also have no problem (you dont pay for their call!)
Ok so enjoy your stay! Which place do you go from Thailand?
Thanks. I go to Bangkok. Is there gprs?
Thailand GPRS
Thailand has a great network. You can buy a 400 Baht sim card with gprs that costs 0.012 per KB (orange). Good coverage. Only GPRS though.
thanks
Chaps,
My other half uses her O2 xda Exec with a work supplied 3G vodafone SIM. It works fine in the UK and she did a good job getting it set up with the right 3G UK vodafone settings etc- well done her!
Question is...
She's now working in the USA for a few days. The xda has found a network and can use it - great stuff but no 3G....
How can she determine what network its using over there - is this selectable somewhere (I couldn't find the option)?
Based on the network what would the settings be to allow her to use 3G!? Anyone help?
Thanks
USA doesn't have 3G. It's also why the universal isnt popular in USA. I feel sorry for em. :lol:
RyanZA said:
USA doesn't have 3G. It's also why the universal isnt popular in USA. I feel sorry for em. :lol:
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Oh bugger! You mean we're ahead of America on something!?
I can't believe silicon valley doesn't have 3G, I guess they have wireless hotspot all over....
T-Mobile US have mumbled something about enabling UMTS "in 2006" but I rather want to see it than hear about it.
The rest of the US carriers use fancy 1xRTT data protocols over CDMA networks - not compatible with GSM. People in the US still wonder what the "G" stands for ;-)
Blame it on our military. Those bands are owned by the US Gov. Just recently I have heard news of businesses getting access to those bands. And there was much rejoicing...
who ever said the us doesn't have 3G?
i live in houston and when i got the universal i did some reaserch:
i found that verison wireless has 3G on their devices, but they dont use sim cards, so they wont help...
but i now have cingular wireless, and it works great, but it is a bit pricy...
i believe about $45 per month...
so if you were just going to visit the us, then i would sugest to you that you go with t-mobile using the GPRS,
yes i know it is slow, but if you are only going to be using it for a little bit i think it would be fine. I believe the GPRS is $19.99.
so it really depends if you really think you need the 3G service...
if you dont think so then get GPRS, the exec can use it, and its not all that bad
It is true that the US does not have 3G but your Tri-Band GSM device will work perfectly fine. With the proper settings you can even surfe the WEB at 32k just no high speed for things like video calls.
I use my Exec quite often in various places in the US without any problems.
Just got this phone thinking it was 3G and I dont think that I am getting DSL speeds. Can anyone help me or direct me to the info. about the phones usage and if it is able to be used as 3G in USA on Cingulars network. THanks a million.
Sorry dude, the hardware radio used in the device is not compatible with Cingular's 3G... Nor is it likely that you can use it with T-mobile's upcoming HSDPA service, the US military still owns the exact radio band the Uni would need to use in the US.
you don't get DSL speeds on 3G anyway, the max is 384Kbps.
unless you have really slow DSL across the pond! here the average is 8Mbps, I'm on 24Mbps.
Thank you for the Information. That helps out a lot knowing that this phone is not what I thought it was when I bought it. Oh well, you live and learn. Thanks again for the Info.
Hi,
I'm going to NYC early May.
Can you tell me if there 's a good prepaied SIM card that's compatible with 3g or edge. I dont wanna use roaming in the US but I still wanna use the data connexion to get news, weather, aGps and other infos.
Thanx for your help
BTW: I searched on google... too many commercial sites!!!
Cheers
No one really knows ???
the only one i can think of is AT&T, and im not entirely sure if its true 3G yet or not. sorry man, we in the states are a bit backwards.
thanx for ure answer
http://gigaom.com/2008/05/05/t-mobile-launches-us-3g-network/
TMobile just rolled out it's 3G in NY
HTH!
Hi, could we use some of
this to get 3G drivers inside the eeepad?
You can use a mifi dongle
Not strickly a 3g plug-in dongle, but still works through the same basic method
Well, that really looks cool but I was more in the hope that the work done on on A500/Folio could be reused here.
Also would love to know this. My carrier has stupid expensive 3G prices and a competitor has awesome deals on 3G dongles and data. And no, I won't move to the other carrier as they have terrible call quality.
Does anyone think we will have any developments in this regard in the future. I guess I could wait for the 3G version...but i want my TF now!
Someone with a Acer icona figured out some way of doing it, go check out the post about it in acer icona forums.
ok will try..can you recommend dongle?