Cincinnati Bell - to have wifi cell phones on June 1st
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timmyjoe42 Posts: 179
Phone Model: Pearl 8120
Service Provider: T-Mobile
Mon May 28, 2007 1:02 am
They are launching their service using the Nokia 6086 and the phone calls can be made using wifi service in your home and switches seamlessly with cell towers as needed.
Does anyone know if Cingular is going to offer this service?
T-mobile? Verizon?
I'm a current Cingular customer, and was wondering if I can unlock one of these wifi phones if it would work with my Cingular service, or if it can only use the wifi through some Cincinnati Bell router connection?
*By Cingular, I mean The New AT+T.
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McGirk Posts: 2411
Phone Model: AX380 Wave
Service Provider: Alltel
Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:21 pm
First thing you would have to find out, Is Cincinatti Bell Wireless a GSM or CDMA carrier. CDMA phones cannot be unlocked or used with GSM providers. Next thing you would want to find out, is the switching done by software on the phone, or is it controlled by the service provider. Chances are good, that you'll only have access to this from Cincinatti Bell, and even then, either GSM or CDMA is going to have wider coverage, unless I am mistaken, the only benefit to this would be faser data.
timmyjoe42 Posts: 179
Phone Model: Pearl 8120
Service Provider: T-Mobile
Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:11 pm
Cincinnati Bell is GSM.
I'm not looking for data transfer.
The Cincinnati Bell (and from what I have found out, T-mobile) wifi service is for the phone line. It switches between whichever signal is stronger: a wifi router/ cell tower, so you can get a strong signal inside your house.
I'm wondering how the wifi eats batteries compared to the regular service. My memory tells me the tdma service didn't eat as much batteries as the gsm service or something like that back in the day.
McGirk Posts: 2411
Phone Model: AX380 Wave
Service Provider: Alltel
Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:58 am
Big difference is when TDMA first came out, the phone was usually designed to work largely on AMPS, and the analog needed to keep constant contact with the cell tower. As a result you would have short standby times, usually less then half the day. Well put a big battery for analog on a phone that is digital most of the time, and you get incredible standby times. My first digital cell was a TDMA Nokia 6100, and that thing got a week and a half or better standby times.
One other thing to consider is that the older phones didn't have as many toys to wear down that battery. Data, bluetooth, sms, cameras, all those things wear your battery down that much faster.
