Nokia 3220 Triband?
Does anyone know if the T-Mobile Nokia 3220 is a triband phone? I just got it for my daughter who is going to Europe this summer.
I notice it doesn't say on the T-Moible website yet both phonescoop and the Nokia site show it triband in some variation.
I notice it doesn't say on the T-Moible website yet both phonescoop and the Nokia site show it triband in some variation.
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if you're looking for a phone you can use in europe, you're still better off with one that supports 900mhz as that is the dominant frequency in europe. 1800mhz is growing, but 900 is still much larger and more widely supported.
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Are you sure about that, dude? I think Europe uses mostly 1800... I understood that Asia used primarily 900 MHz.
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JDigital said:
Are you sure about that, dude? I think Europe uses mostly 1800... I understood that Asia used primarily 900 MHz.
When GSM was introduced in Europe in the early 1990s it was introduced on the 900 Mhz frequency. Later when expansion was needed and to accommodate other operators 1800 was introduced. 900 is the dominant GSM frequency world-wide. 1900 and now 850 is the dominant frequency for GSM in the Americas.
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littlefuzzbear said:In other words, 850/1800/1900mhz isn't really "world" ready.JDigital said:
Are you sure about that, dude? I think Europe uses mostly 1800... I understood that Asia used primarily 900 MHz.
When GSM was introduced in Europe in the early 1990s it was introduced on the 900 Mhz frequency. Later when expansion was needed and to accommodate other operators 1800 was introduced. 900 is the dominant GSM frequency world-wide. 1900 and now 850 is the dominant frequency for GSM in the Americas.
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isotropic_misanthropic said:littlefuzzbear said:In other words, 850/1800/1900mhz isn't really "world" ready.JDigital said:
Are you sure about that, dude? I think Europe uses mostly 1800... I understood that Asia used primarily 900 MHz.
When GSM was introduced in Europe in the early 1990s it was introduced on the 900 Mhz frequency. Later when expansion was needed and to accommodate other operators 1800 was introduced. 900 is the dominant GSM frequency world-wide. 1900 and now 850 is the dominant frequency for GSM in the Americas.
Basically if you're looking for a good international phone:
850/1800/1900= not so much
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Will T-Mobile come out with a quad band phone? What about the V330? Am I correct in assuming the made the V600 tri band and took the 850 mhz off it?
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with the V600-yes, to my understanding it was a quad band phone but our version did not support 850 (disabled?). so, it was advertised as a tri-band phone. We do have some quad band phones, and yes the V330 is one of them (when it's released)
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bizkitsngravy said:
with the V600-yes, to my understanding it was a quad band phone but our version did not support 850 (disabled?). so, it was advertised as a tri-band phone. We do have some quad band phones, and yes the V330 is one of them (when it's released)
As far as I know, the 850mhz band was disabled in the v600 by Tmobile to squelch any complications.
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isotropic_misanthropic said:
In other words, 850/1800/1900mhz isn't really "world" ready.
Well, it's world phone in that mostly 1800 can be used though it is not the primary GSM frequency used world-wide. It's similar to the way it is in the America now. If you have 1900 only it will work in a majority of places but not all. Some of cingular's areas do not have any 1900 even with their taking over AT&T Wireless because ATTWS wasn't everywhere that cingular was. 1900 was the first GSM frequency in the Americas but was later joined with 850. Likewise in Europe where GSM originated 900 was the original frequency for GSM and DCS at 1800 was added later on for both capacity issues and to allow more opera...
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Well, it's not the fastest way to compare, but here's a list of countries and if you click on each one of them it will show you a map of coverage (should anyway) and what ferquency. There are some 850 mhz only areas believe it or not, and most 1800mhz networks will almost always be accompianied with a 900mhz network, that's not to say there aren't areas where it's just 1800. I don't know what they are off the top of my head but yeah, they're there:
http://www.t-mobile.com/international/coverage.asp »
http://www.t-mobile.com/international/coverage.asp »
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per nokia website
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GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/1800/1900 MHz
http://www.nokiausa.com/phones/3220/0,2803,feat:1,00 ... »
in case that was not covered yet 😛 because i am not going to read all the posts on another crappy nokia 😲 😁
Service
GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/1800/1900 MHz
http://www.nokiausa.com/phones/3220/0,2803,feat:1,00 ... »
in case that was not covered yet 😛 because i am not going to read all the posts on another crappy nokia 😲 😁
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