Thursday, May 4, 2006
BenQ and HTC to Speed Up HSDPA Phone Launch... in Europe
Posted by Ekkie Tepsupornchai in "NEWS" @ 11:00 AM
"Taiwan-based BenQ and High Tech Computer (HTC) are speeding up the respective launch of their HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access) phones, with BenQ expected to deliver its first HSDPA phone, the EF91, to T-Mobile in July and HTC to begin shipping its model, codenamed Muse, to Qtek (Model S300) in the third quarter, according to market sources."
Raphael kicked off a great discussion a couple months back where he was debating whether to go with EVDO (Verizon's high-speed data network) or wait for one of our GSM carriers to finally introduce HSPDA. Unfortunately, while T-Mobile has been upgrading nearly every country outside of the US to HSPDA, there's no confirmed report that I know of that states when they'll support it in the US, so Cingular may still be our best bet right now for those of us in the US that prefer a GSM solution.
Raphael kicked off a great discussion a couple months back where he was debating whether to go with EVDO (Verizon's high-speed data network) or wait for one of our GSM carriers to finally introduce HSPDA. Unfortunately, while T-Mobile has been upgrading nearly every country outside of the US to HSPDA, there's no confirmed report that I know of that states when they'll support it in the US, so Cingular may still be our best bet right now for those of us in the US that prefer a GSM solution.
