Sometime back I had an argument with a guy who wrote raving reviews about the HTC Hero (GSM version) in US. I told him it's worthless here because of no compatible 3G freq in US. But he then argued it was just a mere annoyance rather than a deal breaker.
But for me it was always so. I changed to TMo from ATT just because I wanted the N900 and HD2. So my question is, is 3G for you guys a deal breaker. if not why?
PS:- For me though it seams black and white. I get about 1.5 Mbps constant now I can't get anything close to that with EDGE so how this not be a deal breaker?
Edge is fast enough for me so no. I've done plenty of work over Edge without issue. Only reason for 3G that I can think of is if you want to stream videos a lot, which I don't care about.
The N90 is the first device I have owned that would give me full 3G speeds. All my prior devices were non-USA models or designed for AT&T (6630, E61i (HK), E71 (Singapore), N97) so on T-Mobile I'd only get EDGE. You can certainly survive it but it is lovely being able to stream BBC World Service in the car
Edge is fast enough for me so no. I've done plenty of work over Edge without issue. Only reason for 3G that I can think of is if you want to stream videos a lot, which I don't care about.
I just tried sending an picture through mail (was about 1MB), I was in a place with sketchy 3G. It took forever to send the mail.
Also when the updates came, I was just able to download it in office and get it running. I would imagine this would have been a pain over EDGE.
Another example... I just saw a good theme. I can't connect my phone to my office laptop so I just sent an email and picked it up... the theme is over 5MB... no way on EDGE
I run into some QoS issues on AT&T's Edge, with Skype and my SIP client, as well as streaming internet radio, despite being in a "full signal" region. If and when there is any sling support for the 900, I can't imagine it being sufficient.
I run into some QoS issues on AT&T's Edge, with Skype and my SIP client, as well as streaming internet radio, despite being in a "full signal" region. If and when there is any sling support for the 900, I can't imagine it being sufficient.
As stated, I fare better on T-Mo's 3G.
Well you get what you pay for 3g cost over 2x as much as Edge, if they were the same cost then the argument would be a lot harder to say its ok to have "just edge" I cant speak for the general user but for me I only need internet for ocasional forum browsing and email, all my streaming needs are limited to my laptop, the N900 has everything I want to see/hear already inside its internal memory.
I actually do not even use Edge yet, I am thinking about it reason being my tight budget and fact that I am in a wifi area 99% of the day. I would almost never need GSM internet.
I'm using Edge on AT&T. I remember back in the day when it would take 2-3 hours to download a couple megs. Did it the other day in two minutes on Edge. No complaints.
