Nokia E90 has lots of 3G Bands? Prove It!

Filed under: gadgets, nokia - 02 Mar 2007 23:46

I’m not sure where Engadget is getting their information, but based on everything that is publicly available, as well as private information I’ve seen in Nokia, I believe that the only 3G band supported on the Nokia E90 will be WCDMA 2100. I would love for Engadget to be right on this, though, but there’s no evidence they are.

We could always go with the Nokia E90 technical specifications page on Nokia’s site, but let’s go with the FCC documentation that Engadget links to. I poured through all of the PDF files and could not find a single page on any of the documents that matched the one they pictured in the story. Nothing in any of the documentation Engadget links to even mentions WCDMA 1700. You would think that WCDMA 1700 would appear in the SAR reports if it supported that band, don’t you think?

This is either sloppy reporting or someone is making this up. Or they’re talking about the phone after the Nokia E90. Whatever, but I have no reason to believe they’re right on this one.

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Engadget Mobile posted on it first, citing some FCC docs that pointed towards UNIVERSAL US 3G (meaning both for Cingular AND T-mobile’s as-yet un-launched 3G network). However, Phoneboy, a Nokia employee, pointed out the false aspects of that document, so I believe that it rests that the E90 will NOT have US 3G, which is kinda what I was expecting since it was announced. However, if Nokia wants to go all old-school on us and have an E90a and an E90b, well then, I am 100% for that.
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Engadget Mobile posted on it first, citing some FCC docs that pointed towards UNIVERSAL US 3G (meaning both for Cingular AND T-mobile’s as-yet un-launched 3G network). However, Phoneboy, a Nokia employee, pointed out the false aspects of that document, so I believe that it rests that the E90 will NOT have US 3G, which is kinda what I was expecting since it was announced. However, if Nokia wants to go all old-school on us and have an E90a and an E90b, well then, I am 100% for that.
Comment by Abhishta Paranjpe

This is document engadget is referring to:

https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/forms/blobs/retrieve.cgi?attachment_id=746292&native_or_pdf=pdf

(Use IE/Safari to open, firefox, for some reson, doesn’t open it) Page 7 is the page.

Please confirm the authenticity of the document.
Comment by dziny

I also couldn’t find the mentioned picture on fcc site. However, assuming it’s somewhere there it would indicate that E90 would come in 2 version - EU & US, presumably EU would pack 4 band GSM and WCDMA 2100, US would only be a 2 band 850/1900 GSM with WCDMA 850, 1700, 1900 (usable both on cingular and t-mobile). It makes some sense, however we can only speculate at this point.
Comment by Chris Ziegler

Sorry for the confusion here - indeed, there were three filings for this phone in the FCC’s stores and it seems only one of them made mention of WCDMA 1700 — needless to say, that was not the app I originally linked to. I’ve since updated the link. As with all of you guys, I’m personally pulling for this to be real; would be a huge coup both for T-Mobile and an important affirmation on Nokia’s part about their commitment to American 3G.

Cheers,
Chris @ Engadget Mobile
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