TyTN has the EDGE?
Having enjoyed my TyTN for a whole week now, I can definitely say it's the best Pocket PC Phone I've used (that list including the E-TEN M500, an i-mate JAMin and a Treo 650).
The question surrounding EDGE is one that I also had, but I have the following theory: if those Cingular towers that support UMTS only support UMTS because they've been upgraded and that upgrade actually boosts the tower from being just a straight GPRS tower to a GPRS+EDGE+UMTS tower then, if I have a UMTS-capable device (which I do now), I will never see an E icon ever again -- if the tower can do EDGE, it can also do UMTS, and my device will always choose the latter over the former when available. Sound plausible?
Also, I have done some throughput testing (although I would definitely not call it scientific, by any stroke of the imagination) by using my TyTN as a modem for my laptop. Tethering via Bluetooth yielded up to 400Kbps, while tethering via USB yielded up to 500KBps. I'm guessing the Bluetooth speed is limited by the Bluetooth connection itself (with non-EDR 2.0 BT only supporting 708Kbps, right? and then halve it for real-life throughput). All-in-all, very satisfactory!
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