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UPDATE: This Engadget post has been proven incorrect by PhoneBoy
Wait up just a second, let us get this straight: after years of teasing Americans with 3G smartphone after sweet 3G smartphone — none of which packed even a lick of compatibility on US bands — Nokia’s going to rock its newest undisputed king of the hill, the E90, with every band we could possibly hope for? Of course, we don’t want to count our chickens ‘fore their hatched lest we get fooled again, but the presence of Nokia’s latest QWERTY-based Communicator device in the FCC’s trusted hands sporting WCDMA on the 850, 1700, and 1900MHz bands is a very promising sign, indeed. As a refresher, T-Mobile will be launching its WCDMA network this year — the last of the four national carriers to go 3G — on the freshly-minted 1700MHz band, leaving future users without much of a handset selection from which to choose (as in, zero devices so far and few on the roadmap). But hey, with phones like this seemingly sitting in T-Mobile’s pipeline, that’s just fine by us.
I thought T-Mobile was going to use 2100 MHz? Who makes this triband chip?
I’ve gone googling. Give me a few hours.
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
