Wireless Data
Is GPRS 10 actually EDGE?
Looking at the Motorola V3 RAZR I see that the data transmission specs say that it is a GPRS 10 device. Another well respected source has said that this is equivalent to EDGE. I know EDGE codes for three times the number of bits in the same radio channel and that is what gives it its unique broadband characteristics. I also know that the "10" in GPRS 10 indicates the number of down/up channels. So, again, an EDGE device with the same number of channels as a GPRS device should still transmit 3 times the data since it is using a different modulation method, correct?
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Ok my knowledge is a little fuzy with GPRS but from what i understand it works like this. yes GPRS 10 tells how many channels it can use at once. If the phone is using all of it's channels for download then yes it can come close to EDGE. How ever in order to aproach edge speed this means your GPRS phone cannot upload anything (which is very unlikely because your phone cannot tell the network what to download). EDGE can do this both ways though without haveing that same problem. Does this make sense?
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