N75 looks pretty neat; I promised myself my next phone would have full QWERTY keyboard since I use data more than I actually talk on it. That and I could never get used to the T9/keypad text entry.
My phone's actually doing the display scramble thing too; which is a mystery since there's no flip action.
I recently dug up your post from forever ago about cool Japanese phones.
That phone you posted about (over here http://blue-halo.livejournal.com/60795.html ) is still far from reality despite the US adding 3G and Japan being a 3G country. 3G in Japan is FOMA, which is backwards compatible with UMTS -- FOMA adds features that are more or less unique to Japan like the Felica RFID credit card payment system. It just mentions that it's a FOMA handset, which makes it unlikely to support the US bands.
You can use a FOMA handset outside of Japan assuming the country runs their 3G (UMTS) service on 2100Mhz. Which is everywhere except the US : where 2100Mhz is reserved for the military. AT&T's 3G runs on 850Mhz, 1900Mhz ("dual-band UMTS"). T-Mobile has been rumored to launch their 3G on 1700Mhz, and 2150Mhz (@.@). Only handsets that are tri-band UMTS -- 850Mhz(US-AT&T), 1900Mhz(US-AT&T), 2100Mhz(the rest of the world) -- will work in all countries. AT&T, being the bastards they are, mostly releases dual-band 3G phones that only work on AT&T. They deliberately removed (or paid manufacturers to make US-only models) the rest-of-the-world 2100MHz band. :(
Lol, I remember that thing! That phone is so freakin' cool. Yeah, this new phone isn't too bad. I originally wanted something with a qwerty as well, but the lack of funds and need of a phone made me give in. But I'm pretty happy with it so far. It's nice that the operating system is Linux based (s60 OS), as I've found that there is some opensource stuff I can find. Like a copy of Frozen Bubble! XD So yeah, I'm set. And it also has Flash lite (and Flash lite 3 is on it's way) so it's turning out to be a pretty nice phone. Though I may have to hit you up for some hacking tips sometime. If I ever get stuck on how to get more out of the thing.
My phone's actually doing the display scramble thing too; which is a mystery since there's no flip action.
I recently dug up your post from forever ago about cool Japanese phones.
That phone you posted about (over here http://blue-halo.livejournal.com/60795.html ) is still far from reality despite the US adding 3G and Japan being a 3G country. 3G in Japan is FOMA, which is backwards compatible with UMTS -- FOMA adds features that are more or less unique to Japan like the Felica RFID credit card payment system. It just mentions that it's a FOMA handset, which makes it unlikely to support the US bands.
You can find some pretty slick screenshots by Googling the model number, D851iWM : http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=D851iWM so you can at least pretend to have one :D
You can use a FOMA handset outside of Japan assuming the country runs their 3G (UMTS) service on 2100Mhz. Which is everywhere except the US : where 2100Mhz is reserved for the military. AT&T's 3G runs on 850Mhz, 1900Mhz ("dual-band UMTS"). T-Mobile has been rumored to launch their 3G on 1700Mhz, and 2150Mhz (@.@). Only handsets that are tri-band UMTS -- 850Mhz(US-AT&T), 1900Mhz(US-AT&T), 2100Mhz(the rest of the world) -- will work in all countries. AT&T, being the bastards they are, mostly releases dual-band 3G phones that only work on AT&T. They deliberately removed (or paid manufacturers to make US-only models) the rest-of-the-world 2100MHz band. :(
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Yeah, this new phone isn't too bad. I originally wanted something with a qwerty as well, but the lack of funds and need of a phone made me give in. But I'm pretty happy with it so far. It's nice that the operating system is Linux based (s60 OS), as I've found that there is some opensource stuff I can find. Like a copy of Frozen Bubble! XD So yeah, I'm set. And it also has Flash lite (and Flash lite 3 is on it's way) so it's turning out to be a pretty nice phone. Though I may have to hit you up for some hacking tips sometime. If I ever get stuck on how to get more out of the thing.
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