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Originally Posted by ctitanic
What's the current 3G status in the whole USA?
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Quite decent. CDMA 3G (EVDO, mostly) has very good coverage throughout the major population centers in the US, they're starting to work on EVDOrev2, and both CDMA carriers have rolled out 3G-enabled Pocket PC phones. Best of all, the "fallback" for EVDO is 1xRTT, which still gives you up to 100kbps, and it transitions between the two seamlessly (I live in a 1xRTT area, but switch into full EVDO coverage halfway in my commute to Manhattan every day).
The GSM camp is a little behind, but speeding up: Cingular's aggressively rolling out HSDPA, and T-Mobile will start sometime this year.
And, as a Treo 700w user with EVDO, let me say that HP are idiots.
EVDO is killer for any connected app you use on the phone. I've never found PIE so useable as it is with a connection where I can load a 300-400kb webpage in seconds. It's also great to know I can pull down Word attachments without having to wait for a minute or two. I know I won't be owning any HP devices again anytime soon. :roll:
--janak