Disclosure: I work for Openmoko
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Arie Skliarouk wrote:
Hi,
On Friday OpenMoko freerunner went on sale, and by now the 900MHz band
version is sold out with only 850MHz version available.
Someone told me that Orange and Cellcom mainly use 900MHz band, with few
areas where Cellcom provides 850MHz coverage.
Thus, 850MHz version of OpenMoko turns to be mostly useless for Israel,
especially for Orange users (as I am).
Can someone confirm that please?
Sounds unlikely.
From memory, so please verify, but as far as I remember, the Neo is tri-band,
working with 900 and 1800MHz, with some models carrying the 1900MHz as a
third band and others the 850MHz. Orange uses 900MHz and Cellcom uses
1800MHz, so both models are totally usable throughout Israel. The 850MHz and
1900MHz make a difference mostly inside the USA, with the 1900MHz model being
somewhat preferable if you want to use the phone in Europe and the 850 model
being preferable for the USA.
Either way, all models are 100% usable with all Israeli carriers.
Shachar
Disclosure: I work for Openmoko
To clarify a little:
The Neo Freerunner is tri-band available in two versions:
The so-called "850 MHz" version supports 850MHz, 1800MHz, and 1900MHz
The so-called "900 MHz" version supports 900MHz, 1800MHz, and 1900MHz
As you can see, both version support 1800MHz and 1900MHz.
The reason for these two versions is that some rural regions in the USA use
850 MHz instead of the more-or-less world standard of 900 MHz. There may be
some rare places in the rest of the world that use 850 MHz, but for the most
part the 850 MHz version is considered the USA version, and the 900 MHz
version is suitable for just about everywhere else in the world.
If Orange uses 900 MHz as Shachar says, you should wait for the 900 MHz
version.
Sincerely,
Michael Shiloh
Developer Relations
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