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On 2005-10-13 18:19:02, REO wrote:
Cingular has the most customers of any U.S. carrier and uses the 850 band heavily. If
made quad band phones, it would definitely with out a doubt see a huge increase in sales.
I agree with you, but as we mentioned above, phones in the US are 99.9% sold from the carriers by signing a contract.
SE phones in majority are not cheep and with high quality. People will not be interested buying expensive phones at all.
And from the past we have seen that only cheep phones such as T616, T637, T290, Z500a have hit the US market through a carrier.
The new phones are way advanced for the average consumer that they need a phone to make phone-calls.
Next quad band from SE to hit the US market is Z520 which has the features that people in US are asking for.
Motorola's quad bands are POS. Even V188 is a quad band and sells like crazy. Why? Because it is a $100 worth phone that is sold for free with a one year contract.
Give it a little time. As consumers will become more experts, then SE will release more and more quad band phones. Until then, Motorola is fine for now.
[ This Message was edited by: T-mobile on 2005-10-13 19:46 ]
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Posted: 2005-10-13 20:44:46
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I have also said in the past in this forum......
The American cell phone consumer is extremely ignorant to cell phone technology. All the American consumer cares about is a phone to yap away with.
Now, if you take someone like me....... I need a good MP cam, video, MP3, BT, memory card, EDGE, ect............
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Posted: 2005-10-13 22:57:41
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My P910i works fine everywhere I go here so far. I'm with Cingular btw. I think as long as I'm in the 1900Mhz band coverage, I'm all good. I'm getting 5 bars most of the time so far, so no problems. Pretty much California and Nevada are safe havens for me and my phone. So I doubt the P990 not having a 850Mhz band will be a problem. Haha, I'm not even sure if I'll be getting the P990.
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Posted: 2005-10-14 00:19:00
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Hey guys dont loose hope.
Follow my post here on this forum.
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=105908&start=90
Look specifically to the link within; its in regards to UMTS-HSDPA for us Canadians - yes I'm severaly happy of this announcement! Dont mean to be a post whore on this subject = 4 threads already.
But if Ericsson telephony division does work in harmony with SE mobile phone division; and if Cingular launches their UMTS at the same time its possible of a North American version of the P990i. Given that only 2 ugly phones support UMTS in North America on the Cingular network in a limited market trial phase.
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Posted: 2005-10-14 01:38:05
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What frequency the UMTS will work in the USA? Is it going to be at 2100Mhz like the rest of the world, or are they going to use another frequency?
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Posted: 2005-10-14 12:55:30
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Cingular will be the first release UMTS in the USA. They are going to use 1900 mhz band. Therefore not conforming to the world standard again. T-Mobile hasn't planned to release UMTS, if at all, until 2007. I don't know which band they will select, but I assume it will be 2100. T-Mobile cliams there isn't enough spectrum currently to depoy UMTS which means to me they will most likely choose 2100 mhz.
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Posted: 2005-10-14 19:34:09
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