On Sunday 08 July 2007 23:11:01 Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote: > Many countries uses 3G. In Norway we use UMTS (and I think they use UMTS in > the rest of Europe), while in the US you use CDMA. >
there is one operator in norway that use CDMA. mainly for internet on the go, but they have been saying that they will release a phone for ages now. > On 7/8/07, Tim Newsom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You misunderstand... What I meant was " Is 3G backward compatible for > > data with previous formats." Plus, i thought that only the US had any > > kind of cell company which uses cdma. I am quite surprised by that as I > > thought most if not all other countries used GSM. /shrug. > > > > On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 12:55, Mikko Rauhala wrote: > > > su, 2007-07-08 kello 12:00 -0700, Tim Newsom kirjoitti: > > >> Um... Japan does have GSM service... I am positive as I recently had > > >> guests in my house from japan. They brought their cell phones and I > > >> showed them how to make them work in the US. > > > > > > Means nothing. Their phones may be GSM-capable spesifically to work > > > overseas. All of my info says that there's no GSM in Japan, but I > > > haven't rechecked recently > > > > > >> Does EDGE fall back to gprs? Does 3G fall back to EDGE or GPRS if > > >> the phone doesn't support it? > > > > > > Given a phone that supports all of the following, HSDPA will fall back > > > to plain old UMTS will fall back to EDGE will fall back to GPRS, > > > according to network availability. Japan, on the other hand, uses their > > > own types of (W)CDMA networks. > > > > > > "3G" falling back to EDGE or GPRS if the _phone_ doesn't support it is > > > rather nonsensical notion. If a phone is a GSM phone, it will work in a > > > GSM network. It will not work in a 3G network, so there's nothing to > > > fall back _from_. > > > > > > -- > > > Mikko Rauhala - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - <URL:http://www.iki.fi/mjr/> > > > Transhumanist - WTA member - <URL:http://www.transhumanism.org/> > > > Singularitarian - SIAI supporter - <URL:http://www.singinst.org/> > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > OpenMoko community mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > > --Tim > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenMoko community mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
