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Sprint Gives Rev A EV-DO a Shot in the Arm

MoreMobile — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:09:04 EDT

Yea, the US is always behind when it comes to technology...but at least we are finally getting a ton of Rev A coverage (up to 3.1Mbps down) thanks to Sprint. They claim they will have the entire network REV A by the end of 2007. We will see! You can get the EX720 for $50 less here: http://moremobileinternet.com/ex720 and it even works on Macs!

MoreMobile

Sprint Gives Rev A EV-DO a Shot in the Arm

Drezio — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:58:33 EST

Wow, then it sucks to be in the US where mobile communications are related.

Vodafone is already announcing the 7.2Mbps express card. Actually it's already on sale, but the network is still limited to 3.6Mbps. Sometime this year we'll get the jump up.

Drezio

Sprint Gives Rev A EV-DO a Shot in the Arm

Jules Mercuri — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:43:25 EST

Drezio:
EV-DO and HSDPA are the closest we've got to 3G here in the States; the former is supported by CDMA providers like Verizon and Sprint while the latter is supported by the GSMs, T-Mobile and Cingular.

Jules Mercuri

Sprint Gives Rev A EV-DO a Shot in the Arm

Galley — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:36:05 EST

What about us poor bastards who are still waiting on Rev. 0?

Galley

Sprint Gives Rev A EV-DO a Shot in the Arm

Drezio — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:00:01 EST

Well, not being american myself, and having not much clue on CDMA networks, i have a question:

Is Rev A EV-DO something like 3G, or more like a faster GPRS (EDGE like)?

Cause those seem pretty low specs to be bragging about. 3G here in europe is up to 3.6Mbps...
Am i getting this all wrong?

Drezio

Sprint Gives Rev A EV-DO a Shot in the Arm

Joshua Carmody — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:41:50 EST

I didn't mind the slow speeds of Sprint's internet access as much as I did all the caching and image compression they do. It totally cramps my style to view the web in 40%-compressed JPEG files.

Joshua Carmody

Sprint Gives Rev A EV-DO a Shot in the Arm

liquidsoapdispenser — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:02:38 EST

Will this effect my Sprint 700p (EVDO) in any way?

liquidsoapdispenser

Sprint Gives Rev A EV-DO a Shot in the Arm

boicraig — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:34:41 EST

350-500 kbps :)

For a moment, i was thinking of an EVDO based datacenter...

boicraig

Sprint Gives Rev A EV-DO a Shot in the Arm

rfayed — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:27:16 EST

solid.

rfayed