Stan Goodman <stan.good...@hashkedim.com> writes: > Brand HTC > > MPN NO_CARRIERCNETARIABLKATT > > Carrier Unlocked > > Capacity 512MB > > Network Technology GSM / WCDMA (UMTS) > > Band WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM 850/900/1800/1900 > > What is this "MPN" thing?
If it is not "Manufacturer Part Number" then I don't know what it is. > I assume that "Capacity" means RAM; is 512MB adequate? With the caveat of the "how wild are you going to be?" sort it seems plenty to me. I suspect that if you run enough applications to fill 512MB of memory then you will have a much more immediate problem with your battery. I cannot recall ever seeing more than a few dozen MB in use (when I looked, that is) on my SGS, but I am not a heavy multimedia user or anything like that. Of course, as serious students of history we may suspect that it will turn out to be woefully insufficient in a couple of short years... ;-) > I see that it knows how to operate as several frequencies, but I > don't know what that means in terms of Israel providers. > Are the network technologies the ones that I should be looking for? Without going into technical detail, GSM is a world-side standard used in Israel by (IIRC) Orange and Cellcom and by most providers in Europe and much of the rest of the world, and by many providers in the US. CDMA is used mostly in the US (in Europe it is practically non-existent, as far as I know). In Israel, I think Pelephone uses CDMA. UMTS is what is commonly called "3G" (it is based on the GSM standard). W-CDMA is "3G" based on CDMA. Your phone claims to - and probably does :-) - support all of these. The 4 supported frequency bands also give you global coverage. These are the bands allocated for cellular communication (in general, lower frequencies allow providers wider area coverage, and higher frequencies allow serving more customers in the same area, but you needn't care about it). Once upon a time (think 15 years ago) some phones did not support all these bands (in jargon, they were "dual-band" but not "tri-band" or "quad-band") so you had to check if your phone would work in California before boarding the plane. Today it is hardly ever an issue, I think. So, altogether this means that you can travel around the world with this handset and use different providers. You should be able to use it with any of the major providers in Israel (but if you are careful you will not believe me but will call your favorite provider, at least if it is Pelephone - there is W-CDMA and CDMA2000 and maybe some other variant, and I do not remember at all which is used by Pelephone or whether they are compatible with each other). I am sure you can find more details than you care about searching Wikipedia or Googling. > Are there other characteristics that should interest me? OS? Version? Battery life? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
