850 MHz flop

Nick Guenther kousue at gmail.com
Fri Nov 2 17:09:22 CET 2007


On 11/1/07, Jae Stutzman <jaebird at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I'm reading the list and reading what I've known for awhile. The FCC
> never approved the Neo1973 for the 850 band. It appears that it was never
> part of the FIC application. How is it then, that OpenMoko Inc sold it as a
> quad band phone? Where do we stand? Is there a plan to submit the GTA01 and
> GTA02 for FCC authorization? My optimistic side says "of course". But I've
> become more pessimistic in recent months as I've seen the seemingly slow
> moving development of this project (no flame, just observation). Like
> Sagacis said in the other list, I firmly believe in this project, our
> company has committed to developing on this hardware/software stack.
> However, we were led to believe that the Neo1973 was Quad band from the get
> go, and it isn't. I actually observed signal strength issues/behavior months
> ago in my own testing and was told that I need to "read the spec" because I
> didn't understand (I actually did know a little about what I was talking
> about since my E2 can be hacked into a triband phone with similar results to
> the Neo). Why is it only now coming out that the modem does not do 850
> because it is not approved to. Somebody at FIC/OpenMoko knew that this was
> so.
>
> Every organization has a certain amount of "capital" and each one must
> determine where to spend it. OpenMoko Inc needs to be forthright in the
> future or they are going to get a reputation.
>
> So my question: Is Quadband coming to the Neo1973? Please don't jerk me
> around and please don't hijack this thread.

Is that right? I have maybe been having trouble getting 850Mhz to
work, but in my area there is dual 850/1900 and I have no idea how to
tell (if it's even possible) what I'm on. I did get one call to go
through though.

What do you mean "only coming out now"? I was told there was a bug
with 850. Is there some new news that says that this bug is actually
in policy, not code? If so, where are you reading this? If not,
explain yourself.

-Nick



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