K790 VS. K800 - Damn Cell Providers

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Mr.Uriel@gmail.com - 21 Aug 2006 13:38 GMT

Cingular and whoever else is going to relase this phone i.e. T-Mobile
need to hurry up. I'm getting sick of waiting around. It's almost to
the point where I'm debating buying a K800 but then I have to
sacrifiece the use of various services.

At this point I don't see why they didn't just release this phone as a
quad-band phone and saved us the trouble of having to pick one as a
world phone and one as a US phone.

For those unclear what I'm talking about. The K790 is designed for the
US and has been enabled with GSM 850/1800/1900 (Tri-Band). The
K800i/K790i which in only diffrent in that it has a VGA camera and
supports GSM 900/1800/1900 (Tri-Band). Granted I don't know how much
more a quad band chip would cost compared to a tri-band I don't see
why they didn't just find a nice happy middle ground.

Anyone know any release dates for the K790?

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BG - 22 Aug 2006 12:02 GMT

> Cingular and whoever else is going to relase this phone i.e. T-Mobile
> need to hurry up. I'm getting sick of waiting around. It's almost to
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> quad-band phone and saved us the trouble of having to pick one as a
> world phone and one as a US phone.

> For those unclear what I'm talking about.

????

> The K790 is designed for the
> US and has been enabled with GSM 850/1800/1900 (Tri-Band).

Well, no, that's the K790a, GSM 850/1800/1900 tri-band
and for most other areas K790i, GSM 900/1800/1900 tri-band
and about K800i, UMTS and GSM900/1800/1900 quad-band

> The K800i/K790i which in only diffrent in that it has a VGA camera and
> supports GSM 900/1800/1900 (Tri-Band). Granted I don't know how much
> more a quad band chip would cost compared to a tri-band I don't see
> why they didn't just find a nice happy middle ground.

They all use the very same camera type 3.2 Mpixels, autofocus.
K800i _IS_ quad-band!

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