Bad news regarding OpenMoko NEO1973 in the W. hemisphere

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Bad news regarding OpenMoko NEO1973 in the W. hemisphere

Post by Patrick » Fri Nov 09, 2007 2:07 pm

http://pdavila.homelinux.org:8080/blog/?p=251
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Post by snarkout » Fri Nov 09, 2007 2:44 pm

Well that sucks. I have to say, the Powers That Be are doing a pretty good job of helping me save money recently, though.
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Post by rehcla » Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:54 am

So I am happy living in the EU... :D
In Austria we use 900/1800Mhz...
I hope the OpenMoko Phone will be available soon!

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Post by Patrick » Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:57 am

rehcla wrote:So I am happy living in the EU... :D
Well that's fine for you. By ignoring most of the western hemisphere they are lowering their odds of succeeding. What a shame.
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Post by dann » Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:26 pm

Where are you getting this information from? I've searched around and the only thing I can find is apparently a fud blog posting which is refuted here.

Apparently the neo1973 is a "quadband worldwide gsm headset" - that's from the posting. If you look at the neo1973 specs from the openmoko site you will see that it is listed as triband: http://www.openmoko.com/products-neo-ba ... tdkit.html
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Post by Patrick » Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:38 pm

dann wrote:Apparently the neo1973 is a "quadband worldwide gsm headset" - that's from the posting. If you look at the neo1973 specs from the openmoko site you will see that it is listed as triband:
http://www.openmoko.com/products-neo-ba ... tdkit.html
Yes, the spec says triband and no 850Mhz. This was updated recently with quad and 850 removed.

Go to the OpenMoko community mailing list and search for "Community update: The 850 MHz issue":
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/com ... /date.html
with this post starting it all:
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/com ... 11391.html
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Post by dann » Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:01 am

Thanks for those links, Pat. Man that really sucks. I had just started to get my hopes back up, but now they are back down again. What a fiasco! I blame the cellphone providers!
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Post by dann » Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:02 am

Oh, and I cannot forget to blame Linc! I'm sure his hateful hands are in there somewhere! :evil:
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