Nokia N97 mini with quad-band 3G radio is at the FCC
By Dusan Belic on Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 at 12:53 AM PST In Devices, FCC, Nokia, Symbian
It’s good to see Nokia (NYSE: NOK) finally making true world phones. By this I mean a single device that sings on both 900/2100MHz and 850/1900 MHz, used in Europe/Asia and North America, respectively. On that note, the Nokia N97 mini has been spotted at the FCC with a quad-band 3G radio, meaning you’ll be able to use it both in the U.S. and Europe, which is cool. You know rest of the mini’s specs, so I won’t repeat them here. I’ll only add that I’m hoping this will be the Finnish giant’s practice for all high-end devices in the future. No one wants to have a special phone when travelling, right?
[Via: Engadget Mobile]
Now they really should do this with ALL new smartphones. Make them all quad-band 3G! I hate waiting for a new smartphone to hit the market to find out in the end that it doesn’t support North American 3G.
Good job Nokia!
Isn’t 2100MHz good enough for most major urban centres in Europe and Asia?
3G in Europe is only 2100 MHz, starting in October however you can start building 3G on the 900 MHz band.
Again I ask, why is tmobile always left out of the party?
So, both IntoMobile AND Engadget just threw up the FCC documents without bothering to read them? Check out test report 1, page 2, section 1.1 “The EUT is a 7-band (GSM850/900/1800/1900 and WCDMA Band I/II(1900)/VIII) mobile phone with GPRS, EGPRS, Bluetooth and WLAN.” No quadband 3G in site.
@ Jonathan
Take a look at the “Manual” link. You’ll see it can work on both 1900 MHz and 2100 MHz.
I understand that. The point is that this is being reported as a quadband 3G phone when it only operates on WCDMA 900/1900/2100, just like most of Nokia’s Euro triband devices. There is no quadband 3G device on the market to date.