Comments on: Motorola Sholes/Droid Headed To Europe?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:03:08 +0000

i hope it becomes 700mhz everywhere with lte

700mhz penetrates walls better so its easier to deploy (less costly)…europe should follow suit and free up that spectrum for lte

what sucks is if tmo did roll out lte it would be on a different band then att and verizon and we would be back to square one

By: vincent

vincent — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:20:33 +0000

Ooooh yes droid will be mine.
/mode wayne’s world off
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by the way i would prefer it to be called sholes tao or even std than droid. But whateves.
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@ amu
the frequencies are complicated in usa. Hope it becomes 2100mhz everywhere with 4G/LTE.

By: nemo

nemo — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:24:29 +0000

as someone who runs a HTC Dream on at&t’s network it really sucks and I wonder why at&t has waited so long to get android through the carrier on the 3g network. does anyone else wonder about this as well?

By: Y314K

Y314K — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:52:16 +0000

How about a US exclusive once in a while… no,, no,, Hope TMobile changes that…lol

By the way Rob… Pics started working for me again last night… And now their gone again… Talking about the last 5 stories… Just a heads up…

By: ironosity

ironosity — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:21:24 +0000

So what gives? I started my android obsession on androidguys.com. I left because they were always having website issues. Then phandroid started to experience them. Fine, I understand they weren’t prepared to scale to what they needed. But what about the lack of news recently. It seems all we get is 1-2 day old(or more) news. Come on phandroid! Don’t make me seek out yet another android blog!

By: Tom Robson

Tom Robson — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:28:26 +0000

Oh yeah, and don’t forget:

http://www.droiddoes.com

By: Tom Robson

Tom Robson — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:02:49 +0000

I think you can safely change the name to Droid everywhere – check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPYM-XTqcec

By: Amu

Amu — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:52:36 +0000

@johnkzin: you mean NAM 3G version right? Which may include HSPA…? Unless if you just want pure gsm (calls and no 3G) then you could important the gsm version heading to Europe.

By: Amu

Amu — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:49:24 +0000

@Vincent: that’s the exact question I’ve been making a lot of people about the 1700 band. But so far we have heard that you do need both bands. 1700/2100, to work on t-mobile’s 3G network. The reason is because Europe uses a different 2100 frequency range than t-mobile does. This means that it may, slightly/possible, work. So far it is known that the 1700 band does the downloading while the 2100 does the uploading. However, I believe that there is a phone from t-mobile that only uses one band, 2100 I believe and not the 1700 band. But I will say from my opinion that yes you do need 1700 and 2100 for it to use t-mobile’s 3G. But if you only want to make calls and don’t take care about the internet speed then you could import it unlocked and it will work with t-mobile since it is gsm

By: johnkzin

johnkzin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:36:30 +0000

Now if they’d just make a US/NAM GSM version.

(T-Mo or AT&T, either one)

By: Luke H

Luke H — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:44:10 +0000

I *saw* a Motorola Sholes phone *in the wild*, in Harvard Square tonight. I kid you not, I saw it from 3 feet away. The guy, 40s, business type with a receeding hairline, pulled it out of his pocket and was fiddling with it for a couple of minutes waiting for a pizza in Upper Crust while I tried not to look like I was staring. I finally asked him if it was the Motorola Sholes. “Probably not,” he replied, angling the screen away from me and putting it back in his pocket. “Are you serious? I know the model, you’re lying to me, right?” “Keep looking for it…” he said, grabbed his pizza and walked out.

By: vincent

vincent — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:00:06 +0000

@ amu
This so called european version of STD has wcdma 2100 but not 1700: does it need both to run tmobile usa ? Just curious.
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I want this phone in france yesterday ! By the looks of this article, sfr which is owned by vodafone will have the temporary exclusivity (which has been banned over here, but nevermind).

By: Amu

Amu — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:33:22 +0000

It’s a quad-band phone, which can make calls anywhere where the frequency bands are any of those four, 850/900/1800/1900. These bands are solely for making calls, and I believe Edge as well. The 900/1900 WCDMA bands are what give it 3G speeds, even HSPA if the phone is capable off. However, here in the US you need either 850/1900 WCDMA or 1700/2100 WCDMA for it to work on either AT&T’s or T-Mobile’s 3G. If you only want to make calls and Edge speeds you can import it unlocked and it would work on either AT&T and T-Mobile since both have GSM networks.
GSM bands (make calls and edge): 850/900/1800/1900
WCDMA / HSPA (for 3G to work): 850/1900 AT&T, 1700/2100 T-Mobile
CDMA is for Verizon and Sprint networks.

By: swehes

swehes — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:49:38 +0000

@KBlack

If you take a look at Acer’s A1 specs it show that it is going to use the bands of 850/1900/2100 which is the bands of AT&T. That would be a nice phone to get.

By: Tom Robson

Tom Robson — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:18:53 +0000

This is fantastic news! I am itching to get an Android handset here in the UK and the Droid is looking like the best option. Was a bit worried that it was going to be US only, but it seems Motorola have thought of everything – could the Droid be the phone that helps to bring them back in to the top division of handset makers?