HSDPA Phone Available

whitebengal · Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 1:56 pm Post subject: HSDPA Phone Available

Not exactly sure where to put this, but the LG CU500 is out
with limited availability in HSDPA markets from Cingular.

Current issues are bluetooth 1.1 DUN and no mac drivers for
the USB cable. Prices are around $150 for a 2 year contract
or $300 for purchasing out of contract.

From what I've heard, the major plus to this phone is you can
talk and still surf at the same time thanks to carrier multiplexing.

Scott · Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:25 pm Post subject: Re: HSDPA Phone Available

xenophon · EVDO Addict Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 2001

Me thinks that simultaneous voice/data on phones will be a significantly desired feature when realized by road warriors. Our staff needs a separate data card so they can talk on cellphone at same time when looking up client accounts or doing remote support. To have the phone charge while talking and doing data via USB, it will nix the need for a data card. Bluetooth 2.0 will provide even more freedom.

There are ways CDMA carriers can do this but it might be limited.

- Qualcom may do a dual CDMA chipset with two ESN numbers, one for voice and the other for data. Carriers haven't committed though.

- VoIP over Rev A will allow this but could be a couple years a way.

- Sprint may do dual CDMA/iDen phones where voice can be done over iDen while data over CDMA (or voice over CDMA if not needing to do simultaneous data). This may actually be available by end of the year to early next. But for those who also want a smartphone, it may not be an option down the road.

If the CDMA carriers don't find a way to compete with this by the time HSDPA is broadly available, Cingular just might become our preferred carrier. But at this time, Sprint and Verizon are way ahead of Cingular in deployment and might be for at least another year.

Scott · Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:55 pm Post subject:

That LG CU500 looks a little like a razor.

Odd that is would have 900/1800 MHz GSM frequencies, but lack UMTS/HSDPA 2100 MHz. So no data roaming in countries using 2100 MHz (discounting of course that it'll be SIM-locked).

Perhaps 2100 MHz complicates the antenna engineering/efficiency.

I still wonder how rural areas and lower-density cities will be treated. Mobile professionals move beyond the city, after all, so it will be interesting to see how everyone embraces the new-world stuff only to realize that their old-world working methodologies still have to be employed when they roam out of UMTS/HSDPA.

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