its.moo
Monday, January 24, 2005
good news?
well, those of you who have talked to me recently know that from time to time i have a problem with my cellphone. just got a sony ericcson t610 recently so i could have a bluetooth connection for the pda, but unfortunately at my house and a few other places the reception is bad.
fortunately, i now know why. this phone is not a cingular phone, it's tmobile phone. it really should not matter since its a gsm phone, you just swap out the sim card. heres what does matter. there are two seperate groups of frequencies used by gsm carries. tmobile and cingular are actually using different frequency sets. as a result, this phone does not support the 900mhz connection and cingular does. that means all other phones that are designed with the 900mhz support will work at my house. this one will not.
i talked with the guy from ebay that i bought the phone from, and sells the exact same phone but with the proper support for cingulars frequencies, labeled the t616. hes going to just swap it out for me for no charge.
happy happy joy joy. ;)
posted by Kevin at 1/24/2005 10:01:00 AM
3 Comments:
nice little update for anyone else who hates the world.. ;)
t610 (old phone) uses 900mhz gsm tier
t616 (new phone) uses 800mhz gsm tier
cingular uses 850mhz gsm tier
so the new phone won't do any better.. wonderful. :)
note to self, next time do the freaking research. dont just listen to what someone tells you.
ok.. i'm not sure how.. but this t616 that i got as a replacement is operating at the 850mhz.. so it works great. woohoo ;)
for those interested... in the gsm market, 800mhz and 850mhz are the same thing under different labels. and thats why it worked. ;) and 850mhz is the more accurate term, but some people use the other terminology for some reason. i dunno why.
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