Comments on: 2011: The Year of Pentaband? http://www.slashgear.com/2011-the-year-of-pentaband-29121741/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Newt http://www.slashgear.com/2011-the-year-of-pentaband-29121741/#comment-121570 Newt Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:30:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=121741#comment-121570 BTW google too blew its plan to change trend from carriers to phone makers by offering a stupid UNLOCKED 700$ PHONE that would work only on at&t 3g, why in hell would anyone spend that money??? when they would be paying same for monthly charges anyways, what were execs thinking??? anything???

]]> By: Newt http://www.slashgear.com/2011-the-year-of-pentaband-29121741/#comment-121569 Newt Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:28:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=121741#comment-121569 stupid nokia has been making pentaband phones supporting both tmo and att at same time, for YEARS, so in usa its nothing more than carriers crying about their monopolist markets, and yet again nokia is going to come up with stupid win7 pentaband phone, I wish they had adopted to android..I would have been their LOYAL cust for life, well with top end phones not even as good as iphone introductory model, waved bye to it long ago, but its not hard/impossible to mass produce those pentaband hspa phones at all

]]> By: Mike Wen http://www.slashgear.com/2011-the-year-of-pentaband-29121741/#comment-117524 Mike Wen Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:35:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=121741#comment-117524 It’s not easy to make Pentaband 3G phones.
Otherwise, Google won’t sell 2 versions of their unlocked Google Phone

]]> By: n900mixalot http://www.slashgear.com/2011-the-year-of-pentaband-29121741/#comment-84820 n900mixalot Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:28:23 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=121741#comment-84820 If HTC would have just built the nexus one successor instead of letting samsung beat them to the punch, plus made it penta band, they would have made a serious killing, globally.

At least I know when my attention wears thin with this g2, I will be able to go back to a solid penta band nokia with some meego love all up in it.

Nokia 6820 and htc smt5600 were my first two and I am still all for both. Had a good run with motorola back in the day but meh for now.

]]> By: JayMountain http://www.slashgear.com/2011-the-year-of-pentaband-29121741/#comment-84764 JayMountain Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:12:27 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=121741#comment-84764 Agree! FCC needs to show some muscle!

]]> By: Stuart http://www.slashgear.com/2011-the-year-of-pentaband-29121741/#comment-84763 Stuart Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:01:54 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=121741#comment-84763 Pentaband 3G should be as common as quadband GSM but the carriers probably won’t accept it until 4G becomes more common. I doubt Samsung will make a pentaband device available in the USA or an unbranded one since doing that would affect carrier sales. They could have easily made the Nexus S pentaband since it is basically a developer phone but they chose not to. Nokia has pentaband devices but none of them are carrier subsidized in the USA so far. Dell seems to be doing it independent of the carriers which is basically like GOBI data on their laptops and I hope it will become the norm for non-subsidized devices.

]]> By: acupunc http://www.slashgear.com/2011-the-year-of-pentaband-29121741/#comment-84721 acupunc Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:42:24 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=121741#comment-84721 “Even Apple, credited for upending the nature of carrier control in the US. . . ”
Really? How is that? By locking in totally with one product with one carrier?

Google wanted to make a phone that would work on all carriers and they were told flat out by the carriers that they would not carry the phone. Obviously Google backed down. This is an area the FCC needs to step in and require that all phones work on all carriers.

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