FreeRunner and Rogers/Fido question

Alexander Frøyseth alexander.froyseth at gmail.com
Thu Jul 3 20:58:06 CEST 2008


Philippe Guillebert skrev:
> Todd Courtnage wrote:
>   
>> Hey all.
>>
>> I live in Canada (Calgary) and am looking at buying the FreeRunner.
>> I've also noticed that there is no 3G support.  I presently have a
>> BlackBerry 8700 on Rogers EDGE network, with a data plan.  I'm confused
>> in whether EDGE is 3G or 2G.  
>>     
> Hi,
>
> Edge is often referred to "2,75G".
>
> To sum it up :
>
> 2G is plain old GSM (9.6kbits/sec)
> 2,5G is GPRS (about 50 kbits/sec)
> 2,75G is EDGE (about 200 kbits/sec)
> 3G is HSDPA (up to a few Mbits/sec)
>
> Neo Freerunner is GPRS-capable. Not awesome, but enough to check mails 
> or things like that.
>
>   
And thats exacly what I does on the mobile net :)
Expect for calling and sms




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