Nokia N95
Re: Maybe it is not Nokia but the US
I travel quite a bit and my next move is to Japan for a few years. While debating on getting a sweet phone there I thik I will most likely grab the N95 next month and call it good.
Yes the fact that so many cool phones don't work here is enough to make you scream, but why doesn't the US adapt to glabal standards? Then we wouldn't have issues of having to wait for special phones for us.
As far as the,why doesn't Nokia make more 3g phones for the US, well it is a small market. True we have a ton of money over here but a very small 3g market. Europe and especially Asia have a huge market. Japan is a almost pure 3g country.
So why don't we bug Cingular and T-Mobile (D-Telecom) and get our standards to par here?
Yes the fact that so many cool phones don't work here is enough to make you scream, but why doesn't the US adapt to glabal standards? Then we wouldn't have issues of having to wait for special phones for us.
As far as the,why doesn't Nokia make more 3g phones for the US, well it is a small market. True we have a ton of money over here but a very small 3g market. Europe and especially Asia have a huge market. Japan is a almost pure 3g country.
So why don't we bug Cingular and T-Mobile (D-Telecom) and get our standards to par here?
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It's not a matter of just "bugging" everyone to get on the same standards, it's a matter of sorting through telecom & other spectrum regulation that's be legislated for the past 40 to 50 years. For example, the 2100mhz frequency band in the U.S. was designated for military use, thus telecoms couldn't build networks or devices on that. Whereas in Europe, most of the countries had that particular band available, so that's what they regulated to have for 3G. The 900mhz band is used my a lot of local rf devices, such as cordless phones & walkie talkies. A lot of great info on that topic is here:
https://www.phonescoop.com/articles/aws/ »
Bottom line: it's a lot more complicated than simply telling the phone manufacturers & carriers to co...
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https://www.phonescoop.com/articles/aws/ »
Bottom line: it's a lot more complicated than simply telling the phone manufacturers & carriers to co...
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