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I have had the p990i for a few months, and I love the phone. I am having a few problems. I can't seem to get 3g working on my phone. I know the phone is a 3g phone, and I do have a 3g card in the phone working, but, when I check the antenna, I still see "GPRS Attached."
Long story short, I want 3g on my p990i, to watch (US) TV on my p990i, and any assistance with Cingular video would help.
Any ideas?
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Posted: 2007-01-12 22:08:11
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Not on Cingular, no u don't. Sadly, but true. read these posts.
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=131297#post1779998
Basically Cingular offers 3G on the 1900 band, whereas the P990i has 3G on 2100 band. Oops. In US, T-Mobile though offers 3G on the 2100 band....
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Posted: 2007-01-12 22:15:03
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Thanks again, for the quick reply...even though it is bad news. After reading the posts you left, I have another question. Is there another version of the p990a coming to the US? If so I guess I'll have to sell this one...
Any help here would be great...
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Posted: 2007-01-12 22:21:29
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For sure there will be no "a" version for the P990, as the US SE's web site is:
a) advertising the "i" version
http://www.sonyericsson.com/s[....]emplate=pip1&zone=pp&pid=10336
b) selling the "i" version
http://shopwireless.sonyerics[....]oducts/cat/1002/product/280271
As u can see from this page, not ALL the SE fones have been "a"-ed:
http://www.sonyericsson.com/s[....]&ver=4000&template=ph1&zone=ph
I guess u can call it "marketing". Bad one, but still marketing. I wish they made it q true world phone, a quad band...
Who cares bout US, which is the 3-rd world when it comes to tele-communications, as one of the forum members put it....Not SE...
[ This Message was edited by: scroitoru on 2007-01-12 21:31 ]
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Posted: 2007-01-12 22:30:59
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where is TMobile is offering 3G in US ?
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Posted: 2007-01-13 00:19:48
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On 2007-01-12 22:15:03, scroitoru wrote "In US, T-Mobile though offers 3G on the 2100 band...."
@Scroitoru:
Unfortunately, T-Mobile hasn't launched 3G yet. Additionally, I have heard phones that support the 2100 mhz band overseas will not work with T-Mobile's USA 2100 mhz 3G network and vice-versa Don't quite know the details why but just another example of how behind we are in the mobile networking.
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Posted: 2007-01-13 00:35:42
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that is really ridiculous. same phone, same band, on the same provider (say T-Mob), and yet 3G reception only possible in one region or another?! wow. bad bad bad.
well i guess it's about money. Providers see no need to spend money on High Speed Networks, when they consider it to be a niche market.
One of the reasons I got the P990 was cos it is a 3G. Now I am back to the 2 G (not even the 2.5 G or EDGE that Cingular touts), and on top of that I am also missing the 850 band from this phone
Last week, as I was driving on most rural areas and I was not able to pick any network, while my son's phone (bought from Cingular), had no issues. And even when I was able to pick some, his had more bars than mine. So I am not sure when ppl say on this forum that the P990 is a PHONE first and then a PDA. That might be true elsewhere, but not in US and on Cingular....
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Posted: 2007-01-15 17:43:48
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