HSDPA Support?

[rreinink]

Hi all!

T-Mobile is working on their new, so called: "HSDPA-Ready Network". And since I'm having the T-Mobile provider in about 2 months, this really sounded interesting.

I suppose you all know HSDPA is high-speed (1mbit+) internet, but for as far as I know the Qtek 9100 doesn't have HSDPA support.

Maybe a stupid question, but will this support ever come? Like a firmware upgrade, or is this HSDPA-function really in the hardware?

Thanks in advance!

Rik

[Koksie]

Like UMTS (which HSDPA is an upgrade of), it needs specific radio hardware, so no dice for our Wizard. The HTC Hermes, successor of the Wizard, will support UMTS and HSDPA.

[rreinink]

Ah, thats a shame... :(

Thanks anyway!

[ethorn]

also don't expect 1mb/s from the service in the first couple of years until they get some competition from others. it is like cabl modems. from day 1 they could go 18MB/s but because DSL couldn't compete they never opened up the extra bandwidth. Cingular set theirs to operate on average just above that of Verizon's EVDO network. i.e. 300-500Kb/s. still 3-5 times the speed we get now with lower latency, but no 1mb/s either.

[joecartoon22]

Like UMTS (which HSDPA is an upgrade of), it needs specific radio hardware, so no dice for our Wizard. The HTC Hermes, successor of the Wizard, will support UMTS and HSDPA.

with the hermes will it support us, tmo and cing, frequencies of hsdpa. i know that the hsdpa network, like gsm, can operate at different frequencies so i was just wondering if the planned rollout of the tmo and cing networks will follow the same frequency requirements as the rest of the world...

[ethorn]

with the hermes will it support us, tmo and cing, frequencies of hsdpa. i know that the hsdpa network, like gsm, can operate at different frequencies so i was just wondering if the planned rollout of the tmo and cing networks will follow the same frequency requirements as the rest of the world...

you are correct in that the EU's freq is different than ours for UMTS. I can't remember the freq's off hand though. it is annoying that this happens so often.... here's to hoping that world phones remain world phones even for umts freqs.

[birdibird]

In europe it runs on the 2100 Mhz band, in the USA on 850 or 1900 Mhz

[ethorn]

so it would make sense fo the phones to work world wide since the GSM used both of the us frequencies and in EU they have to add the 2100 freq.... again here's to hoping.

[joecartoon22]

since this is supposedly quad band would you think that being so it would support the us version of HSDPA?

[ethorn]

the wizard will never do hsdpa as it can't do UMTS which is the basis of hsdpa. HTC Hermes is the wizard replacement that does hsdpa.