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one of the UK operators (cant remember who) did a 3G trial in the shetland ials(SP?) and it failed they handed out free 3G handsets and free mins providiong they could moniter what u used your handset for and fill out a feedback form there was a documentry on this a while back before three even existed (three as in the network) basicly the service was down 99% of the time and voice was only avalable. i seem to remember them having a semens phone in the trials.
3G is a money making scam 1 of the guys at work have jus got a 3G phone and it is huge compaired to the phones now. TBH they are bricklike. (no insult to the P800 (im not a fan of the 800 cos if the shape) its a nice size but it looks like a soapdish with a flip but these phones are worsly designed and are heavy aswell the P800 is godlike compaired to them)
enuff said!
IMO dont go 3G
EDIT: i got the wrong place see no8080's post thats what i was talking about
[ This Message was edited by: warrmr on 2003-07-09 11:43 ]
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Posted: 2003-07-09 12:17:03
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I will probably get into 3G after the competition comes at the end of the year and the prices start to fall AND also only when I can use it with my pc/ipaq etc. Do these 3G phones have IR or bluetooth yet?
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Posted: 2003-07-09 12:28:31
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Manx telecom ran a trial based on the Isle of Man in early 2002, they gave out free handsets and didn't charge the users for any 3G features to begin with. It was used heavily, when available, but the minute they started to charge for the 3G services no one was interested. The trial was deem as a failure due to many reasons.
3G still suffers from numerous technical difficults, the worst being 'cell breathing'. I don't think they have solved that one yet. Basically the bandwidth from each cell is shared between the users, so the more users on each cell, the lower the bandwidth. Just like broadband, if and when 3G becomes popular the SP's will need to keep installing more cells in order to maintane 3G services, like video calls.
I am waiting to see what happens with 3G first, but the good thing about 3G is that it will help drive down the prices for 2.5G stuff like GPRS.
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Posted: 2003-07-09 12:41:32
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On 2003-07-09 12:28:31, masseur wrote:
I will probably get into 3G after the competition comes at the end of the year and the prices start to fall AND also only when I can use it with my pc/ipaq etc. Do these 3G phones have IR or bluetooth yet?
a830 has full bluetooth,
necs only have dialup
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Posted: 2003-07-09 22:53:46
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I spoke 2 a guy in the Oxford St 3 sho and he said 3 new phones were coming out in the Autumn.
The SE Z101 whateva its called, the Nokia 6600 or summin (u know the one ppl r comparin 2 the p800) and a touchscreen one from another company, Siemens?/Samsung? cant remember, but Im sure regular users know what phones im talking about. The guy said those phones are exclusive to 3 adn no other network wil have them, Im guessin coz the other networks havent sorted out their 3G offerings yet, whateva theyll b, ul b sure theyl b pricy!
Also the phones will have WAP/HTML browsing capability, which the current NEC/Motorola 3G offerings dont have.
Also didnt the guy who invented 3G say recently that its not very good and the newer WCDMA or whateva its called is better and will prevail. Guess all the networks are kicking themselves 2 have spend billions on stupid licences for already outdated technology! Oh well more price rises for us then!
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Posted: 2003-07-24 05:46:41
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yeah but the network doesnt support wap/gprs yet does it?
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Posted: 2003-07-24 05:50:04
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what countries is 3G supported in?
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Posted: 2003-07-24 07:49:42
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www.three.com
the uk is 1 of the "lucky"countrys to have been plagued by 3g
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Posted: 2003-07-24 12:18:51
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