nthach wrote:
Too bad the Nexuses had a horrible marketing strategy - and the fact that I don't think they carry the needed North American 3G(WCDMA 850/1900) bands for use on AT&T/Rogers. The original Nexus One had AWS(WCDMA 1700/2100) and international 3G.
The HTC Aria and Samsung Captivate are the better Android phones going for AT&T - Motorola just plain sucks IMO. Too bad the Aria has a smaller screen and slower Qualcomm SOC than the Captivate which like I said is the Galaxy S.
Yeah, they didn't put much effort into actually getting them sold, then people wondered why the sales were so low
They're doing it differently now, though, they're selling it through networks like other phones, which should push sales up since it'll get a lot more publicity.
The way phones work in the US confuses me. Over here, any phone, as long as it's unlocked, will work with all the networks (though the Three network only works with 3G phones). In the US, though, you seem to have whole different bands and systems (GSM vs. CDMA) for each network!
Here, we got SIM/carrier lock(AT&T and T-Mobile) and MSL(Master Subsidy Lock, on Sprint and MetroPCS - both are CDMA) galore. And the different bands and systems. T-Mobile runs their 3G on AWS - the 1700 and 2100MHz bands and regular GSM on the 850/1900MHz bands. AT&T runs GSM and 3G on both 850/1900 bands. Verizon, Sprint, and MetroPCS run 3G CDMA in the 800/1900MHz bands - and MetroPCS as well as a few regional CDMA carriers also have 3G in the 1700/2100MHz AWS bands. Even though the CDMA carriers are running common frequencies you can't use a Verizon phone on Sprint and vice versa - but you can on MetroPCS if the phone's ESN/MEID gets added to Metro's database and your phone gets it's PRL and NAM programmed with Metro's values.
Pretty soon, Verizon and AT&T will run LTE in the 700MHz band.