On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:02 AM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > a 3g modem/module/chipset is REALLY expensive. especially if you have low > volume (that means less than a few hundred thousand units). you pay a small > fortune in royalties too.
It is true, 3G is expensive and for most practical reasons, probably not feasible. In my situation, it's something that I can't argue with. Myself, living in Canada, most of the country is run on the older CDMA network and GSM is spotty at most so 3G isn't really a priority, but I often get sent to south-east Asia and most of the countries there run on 3G only networks. Unless I know that an FR coming out will have 3G, I'll have to buy a just as or more expensive 3G phone so I can bring it with me. The other thing is seeing the North American market bash with the rest of the world, a big concept that's starting to pick up around here is 'World-Phones' that run on the 850MHz North American networks and 900MHZ networks as well. At least with 3G, we don't have this problem... it all runs on the same bandwidth. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
