Thread: In praise of Maemo
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2011-03-24 , 01:17
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Originally Posted by lancewex View Post
I have no wifi at work (government job, so I can't use the internet either). So I need 3G for sure. Yesterday I used EDGE for a short period just to test. For general browsing it might be ok. But streaming radio is just not possible without many irritating interruptions.
It's going to be another year at least (it'll probably take that long for the merger to go through) before 3G is switched to AT&T frequencies, might well be longer because they won't do it straight away after the merger has gone through either, I would expect them to give T-Mobile customers time to actually upgrade their handsets to ones that will work on AT&T frequencies. So you've got a while before you need to start worrying about it.

When it does happen, what might be an option is getting a data-plan with a MiFi-type device so you can still have a 3G (or maybe 4G) connection to your N900. Or possibly a new phone that supports WiFi tethering and keeping the N900 just as an internet tablet.