I was debating whether I should write this post about Nokia or not but then I thought to myself... I need to release some steam since I'm being treated like a bastard child by Nokia.
It's no secret that once you lay your hands on any nokia phone, you like it and become a follower. The user interface is easy to use blah blah blah. Then if you are an advanced user and you get to play with S60...it just swallows you in. Recently I decided to switch from N95-1 to N95-3. In either case I was going to loose / gain something. By giving up N95-1 I lost the access to 3G during my trips to Europe. With N95-3 I gained the access to American flavor of 3G..but NOT really. I'm a T-Mobile subscriber (yeah..those who read my previous posts probably will vomit if I'll mention "Lavender" operator any more) which is yet to deploy their 3G service but on a different frequency that the US version of N95-3 operates (it uses at&t frequencies). Because of that I feel that Nokia is an unfair player on the US market. We already have the abundance of shitty phones (RAZR, RIZR, KRZR, STPD, crippled CDMA flip phones on Verizon or Sprint, gazillion of flip samsungs on at&t and my fav T-Mobile). I spit on carrier's selection. It makes me even more sad when I see that Nokia decides to flood the shelves of carrier stores with VERY basic phones. If you want a basic phone but one that would be successful - give us 6300. Spare us the "wonderful selection" of one or two 3G capable phones that work only on at&t. Yes..the recent unveiling of 6263 on T-Mobile gives us a hint that 3G days of T-Mobile are near. That makes me think...if Nokia can churn out one phone that will support WCDMA 1700 (aka T-Mobile 3G flavor) then obviously Nokia has done the testing and research required for the device ond the network. And here comes the part that totally pisses me off. N95-3 was released at the time that Nokia COULD already implement 1700 WCDMA along with 850/1900 (at&t). They chose not to. This is an obvious point that Nokia said to themselves..let's f..k around with America, give them a taste of 3G in a great device. If it fails, we will never do anything else. Well..the early adopters (including myself) are a living proof that N95 with US 3G would be even a bigger success if it was released as such from day one. People are selling their 95-1's left and right are switching to 95-3 even if it means loosing some money (for the buyer..they have to sell their Euro 95 for less and buy US version for more). So now comes the time of N82, another uber device, yet the virtual family is still split between two worlds. How is it possible that Nokia is supposedly "Connecting People" when they release N82, having the specs for US and EU 3G frequencies with ONLY European frequency. No EU/at&t, No EU/t-mobile, NOT EVEN at&t/t-Mobile. This simply SUCKS. If this trend will keep going on, I don't think Nokia will be worthy of their own slogan since they do more fragmentation than connection. Any company can claim to be "Connect People". Mr. Alexander Graham Bell was the only one worthy that slogan as he was the first one that really connected everyone. So my comment to Nokia.... Don't treat USA (hell...I'll even say the Whole America) like the unwanted child that you can tease with nice toys from time to time) and for GOD SAKES create kick ass devices that will make everyone (or at least 95%) of the population happy. The translation of my comment is (N82-3, N96 and whatever other N's will be coming out with Either mixed with Euro and BOTH N.A. frequencies or at least if it's designated for the American market then make it work on all 3G frequencies here). You'll make a LOT of people happy. Trust us..we're just as pissed about our government being a bitch with frequencies as the rest of the world but we can't do anything about it - YOU Can. Connect People.
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3g.co.uk has an interesting article about 3G bands. After reading the article I dare to say that in the near future US may start seeing more dual UMTS band phones operating in the 1700/2100 frequency than 850/1900/1700. As all geeks know at&t is running their WCDMA network on 850 and 1900 Mhz frequency while T-Mobile is (or will pretty soon) operate its WCDMA network on the 1700 Mhz band. The article points out a few interesting things and that 1700 Mhz band may be more appealing in the Americas region than the one at&t picked. Let's hope this will be the case. I would LOVE to see Nokia start churning out kick ass devices that would work in Europe and America on 1700 and 2100 Mhz bands. Follow the link above to read the article.