Nokia E90 will NOT have triband WCDMA
By Stefan Constantinescu on Saturday, March 3rd, 2007 at 3:24 PM PST In Devices
Engadget reported the E90 would do WCDMA 850/1700/1900.
PhoneBoy, a Nokia employee, calls shenanigans:
I’m not sure where Engadget is getting their information,
but based on everything that is publicly available, as well as private
information I’ve seen in Nokia (NYSE: NOK), I believe that the only 3G band
supported on the Nokia E90 will be WCDMA 2100. I would love for Engadget to be right on this, though, but there’s no evidence they are.We could always go with the Nokia E90 technical specifications page on Nokia’s site, but let’s go with the FCC documentation
that Engadget links to. I poured through all of the PDF files and could
not find a single page on any of the documents that matched the one
they pictured in the story. Nothing in any of the documentation Engadget links to even mentions WCDMA 1700. You would think that WCDMA 1700 would appear in the SAR reports if it supported that band, don’t you think?This is either sloppy reporting or someone is making this up. Or they’re talking about the phone after the Nokia E90. Whatever, but I have no reason to believe they’re right on this one.
I’ll trust PhoneBoy over Engadget any day of the week.
I apologize for propagating incorrect information.
hmmm, this fcc document has the page that engadget is referring to. Check page 7.
https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/forms/blobs/retrieve.cgi?attachment_id=746292&native_or_pdf=pdf
Notice how the results are only for GSM 850 and 1900? No mention of WCDMA.
grrr, Look properly Stefan!
At the bottom of the page on pg 7, wcdma 1700 is clearly listed.
ok, now look at the actual “results” pages.
just because there is a page listing what range wcdma is tolerable doesn’t mean wcdma is in the device.
that pdf shows test results for GSM 850 and GSM 1900, that’s it.
Okay so now I know why this phone will not support U.S. 3G
The table that engadget highlights tells us the limits for the for spurious emissions and they ARE NOT any measurements. The actual tests are only conducted on the gsm 850/1900 bands.
glad you finally got it!