On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Amos Shapira wrote:
(Sorry Shachar, sent it to you in private by mistake)
2008/7/6 Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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.
I just got a Google Ad pointing to a shop promising an unlocked iPhone
"2" (the new 3G model) and listing it as "Quad-Band":
GSM
* Quad-band (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
So I wonder why OpenMoko couldn't do this. Cost?
Cost was certainly part of it, but more important was the availability of a
GSM/GPRS module as a monolithic black box that would allow us to open-source
all the code outside of that box (i.e. no binary blobs). We had not at the
time found this for quad-band or 3G.
Remember too that the Freerunner is just our current model, we have future
models planned and quad-band and 3G are desired, being considered, and may
already be designed (I just can't keep up with all the news).
Michael
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