On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swm...@swm.pp.se> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Thomas Habets wrote: > >> Really. > > Exactly. Can we PLEASE kill the myth that Android and iPhone has IPv6 > support for mobile side. PLEASE. None do, and there are no publically > available roadmaps when this might happen on either OSes. > > There are exactly two types of devices (afaik) that support IPv6 for mobile, > and that's Nokia phones using Symbian and Maemo (afaik only N900). > > No other vendor has any IPv6 mobile side support, and even though Microsoft > did the right thing for IPv6 on Vista and Win7, they've dropped the ball on > Windows Phone 7 and have no IPv6 support there. I was very disappointed when > I learnt that fact. I've been told it's to some extent a Qualcomm baseband > issue. There are also no USB dongles with IPv6 support that I am aware of. >
I completely agree with this note from Mikael, but as Joel pointed out and I have confirmed before, Verizon Wireless does have dual-stack USB sticks for LTE. But it is only working on their itty bitty LTE network ... LTE is still developing a market and the economies of scale are not there, so things like this happen where small supply exceeds the growing demand. I believe the chipset cost for LTE are around $100 while they are $15 for HSPA ... (foggy memory) But, LTE is not the issue here. GSM/UMTS/HSPA+ all support IPv6 just as well as LTE. The issue is mobile OSs don't support IPv6 aside from Nokia. Mikael and I both have 3G networks with demonstrated IPv6 capabilities, perhaps people should request Google drive Android IPv6 support. Please point your IPv6 interest here http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3389 and comment and try and drive the IPv6 support for mobile into Android. Cameron > This means that the incentive for mobile operators to support IPv6 is very > close to zero even though a lot of them could do it fairly easily. > > I have native IPv6 in my Nokia N900, it works just fine within "my" own > network, ie without roaming. > > -- > Mikael Abrahamsson email: swm...@swm.pp.se > >
