> Anyone who has paid attention to this mailing list over the last few > months has seen the "It doesn't have 3G, it's worthless" messages about > the FreeRunner. For me (And many, many others) having a fast, > power-hungry wireless pipe to the phone isn't as important as everything > else the FreeRunner brings to the table. But I do have a question: What > kind of thru-put can we expect to see from the GPRS radio in the > FreeRunner? Is it 2k/sec dial-up speed? I'm interested in any > information about this radio, theoretical as well as experiential (Now > that people are getting FreeRunners). I've got some grand plans in the > works, which may or may not ever come to fruition, but some of the > design considerations hinge on what kind of bandwidth the GPRS radio > provides.
AFAIK it is multislot class 10 which means 4 slots of 21.4kbit/s downstream, but in practice it is max 48kbit/s > Also, and I know this has been talked about before, but is the final > word that the GPRS can or cannot be active at the same time as the GSM > (Class B or whatever it's called)? An ongoing GPRS connection would be > really nice but if it can suspend/resume decently (Something like v.92 > on modems if anyone remembers those). Yes, Class B. It means that when you're calling GPRS is disabled. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
