Community update: The 850 MHz issue

[hank williams]

Yeah, I am pretty amazed at this one.

Its really hard to imagine a company building a phone that didnt think
through what frequencies were needed. More interestingly, that it took
a trip from Michael to Taiwan to get anyone to focus on it. If this
substantially sets back the development effort, it really is a major
blow to the project.

Hank

On 11/6/07, Jonathon Suggs <jsuggs at murmp.com> wrote:
> First, thanks to Michael for giving the update.  It is never good to
> have to be the bearer of bad news.
>
> However, this is huge!  My probability of purchasing just dropped from
> 95% to about ~5%.  I'm getting ready to move and not knowing what my
> coverage will be like in those areas is definitely a deal killer.  I
> occasionally do some international travel and also spend time in more
> "rural" areas so quad-band coverage is an absolute must have (not just
> something I want for the warm fuzzies).
>
> I'm not going to be overly critical, but how does this just slip through
> the cracks?  Although somewhat marginal, quad-band chipsets do cost more
> than tri-band.  It just seems really really weird that ensure you have
> all of the functionality working would be an absolute no brainer.  When
> putting all of the components together for a *PHONE* you would think
> that you would test, re-test, check, double-check and then triple check
> the actual *PHONE* components.
>
> My mind is pretty much blown over this one...
>
> -Jonathon
>
>
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> Subject: Re: Community update: The 850 MHz issue
> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:37:15 -0600
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> Man this royally sucks for me. We only get 100% coverage because of the
> 850 band where I live. 1900 is being added slowly, but not anywhere
> close to full coverage.
>
> Anybody want a neo? I sure wish this information would have been
> provided _before_ the purchase.
>
> Jae
>
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