HTC 3125 / Smartflip / 8500 (Star Trek)
Can we say T-Mobile???
I'm guessing we are getting this phone who else has Quad band GSM like us?
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Cingular??? T-Mobile barely uses more than the 1900 band in my area, which is why few of their phones carry the 850 band... and all the cingular phones released carry the 850 band...
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you tell him ken. that dude should know his network, being a t-mobile rep and all. i work for cingular in washington and a employee of microsoft brought the phone in, she is testing it for cingular. it is pretty solid.
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my apologies. i haven't checked their maps or phones in awhile. must have added 850 within the last couple months?
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no problem...i was actually just at the 3g premier in ney york on thursday and htc had a booth there which the reps for them claimed that the i-mate will be coming out for cingular in mid july
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lol we roam on 850 if neccesary i bet you 1,000,000,000.... we are 1900 any takers and ask any t-mo employee on here
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😲 1900 I know what we work off of..... cingular maybe 850 but everytime i log in it is gsm1900 so go figure dummies
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That may be true now, but that is a very recent change. T-mobile used to stay away from 850 phones, unless they were quad-band.
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T-Mobile uses only the 1900 band natively but uses a great deal of 850 mhz roaming. Every currently-sold T-Mobile phone has the 850 mhz band included exactly for this reason. When you're lecturing, please make sure you have your facts right. ;)
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see what i tell you. i don't tell any opinionated garbage on here.... all fact
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lol t-mobile may not work on 1900 where you live but t-mobile is based off 1900 not 850... and thanks for trying to make me look liek a jack... because you didn't know how to read in that cingular room...
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I work for T-Mobile & think this phone would be nice for any carrier to pick up. As to other responses about bandwiths, you should really do your homework!
T-Mobile only uses the 1900 mhz bandwidth in its corporate owned cellular network, because...
The 1900 mhz band = better sound quality/clarity perfect for urban/suburban usage.
The 850 mhz band = offers lower voice quality/clarity perfect for more rural usage.
Currently all T-Mobile phones are sold with both 850 / 1900 mhz built in and certain phones also include 900 / 1800mhz for international use. As always, if T-Mobile has a domestic roaming agreement regardless of 850 or 1900 mhz, T-Mobile's customers can always roam for free on all nationwide plans! 😁
T-Mobile only uses the 1900 mhz bandwidth in its corporate owned cellular network, because...
The 1900 mhz band = better sound quality/clarity perfect for urban/suburban usage.
The 850 mhz band = offers lower voice quality/clarity perfect for more rural usage.
Currently all T-Mobile phones are sold with both 850 / 1900 mhz built in and certain phones also include 900 / 1800mhz for international use. As always, if T-Mobile has a domestic roaming agreement regardless of 850 or 1900 mhz, T-Mobile's customers can always roam for free on all nationwide plans! 😁
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T-MobileRep_514 said:
I'm guessing we are getting this phone who else has Quad band GSM like us?
Cingular.
Both T-Mobile and Cingular have GSM 850/1900 (at a minimum) on all of their current phones.
Both companies also offer some phones that are tri-band 850/1800/1900, and some phones that are quad-band 850/900/1800/1900.
Therefore it is completely invalid to assume that quad-band means it is coming to T-Mobile.
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I think my response may have been mis-understood. I stated that it would be a good phone for any carrier to pick up.
One of the original responses essentially states that T-Mobile really does not use 850 mhz & would be only a Cingular product because Cingular uses 850 mhz where T-Mobile doesn't. In reality T-Mobile does use 850 mhz to roam in. That was my point.
In the end the best thing you can do in retail is take a wait and see approach on who will actually pick this handset up... T-Mobile... or Cingular...
One of the original responses essentially states that T-Mobile really does not use 850 mhz & would be only a Cingular product because Cingular uses 850 mhz where T-Mobile doesn't. In reality T-Mobile does use 850 mhz to roam in. That was my point.
In the end the best thing you can do in retail is take a wait and see approach on who will actually pick this handset up... T-Mobile... or Cingular...
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