On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 3:58 AM, Robert Bîndar <[email protected]> wrote: > Dislike: [...] > * the lack of 4G > * I suppose this is a hardware issue, It's annoying when I have a very > poor data connection and others around me have a very good one (same > provider and the same plan)
Relatedly: * the lack of 1700 MHz (AWS) 3G support As an example, almost half the carriers in Canada use 1700 MHz and only 1700 MHz to provide 3G (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UMTS_networks#Americas ). From my experience with developers (both mobile and web) in Canada, most of them prefer the 1700 MHz carriers, in part because their rates are more competitive (especially if you use a lot of data). Furthermore, most of the 1700 MHz carriers do not operate a 2G network. This means that the Flame simply will not connect at all to these networks, which makes it hard for a developer to use it as their primary phone if that is their carrier. (In fact, I'm not aware of any current Firefox OS phone that operates on 1700 MHz so it's hard for these developers to use any Firefox OS device, period.) On Robert's point about data connection quality, adding 1700 MHz support could also improve the data connection in some situations, ie. in places where T-Mobile USA offers services in that band. Other flagship phones (such as the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4/5/6) support pentaband 3G (850/900/1700/1900/2100 MHz) so I feel the next Flame should as well. Denver http://ossguy.com/ _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
