Community update: The 850 MHz issue

William Voorhees will.voorhees at gmail.com
Fri Nov 9 20:52:35 CET 2007


I realize the 850mhz issue is complex and you can't give an answer
right away, but I'd like to know when we could expect one? I'm one of
the many North American's who needs the 850 band, and If I know it's
coming I'm going to start doing some software dev, if it's not I'll
start looking elsewhere.

-Will

On Nov 7, 2007 2:29 PM, Michael Shiloh <michael at openmoko.org> wrote:
> I was a little imprecise here. The circuit design, and thus board
> layout, is what limits the handset to 3 bands. The components selected
> (along with firmware and certification) select the 900/1800/1900MHz bands.
>
> Michael
>
> Randall Mason wrote:
> > Michael said above that it was a question of a physical hardware change:
> >
> >     The chipset is capable of quad band but the board was laid out to only
> >     support 3 bands. So, 850Mhz is not supported on the GTA01 board. Instead
> >     we support 900/1800/1900MHz.
> >
> > Board layout is a hardware issue.
> >
> > On 11/6/07, *Tim Shannon* <shannon.timothy at gmail.com
> > <mailto:shannon.timothy at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Just curious, I don't know much about the hardware in question, but
> >     is it just a firmware issue, or does the hardware have to physically
> >     change to move between the 900 or the 850 frequency?
> >
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