800 mhz

[DerekRod]

Someone at my college was telling me that the iPhone has 800 MHZ frequency support but its not active?What the heck does that mean?

 

[Shadowbech]

Someone at my college was telling me that the iPhone has 800 MHZ frequency support but its not active?What the heck does that mean?

Probably means that the CPU, even if it's 1 GHz, is clocked to run at 800 MHz??

 

[mooblie]

Nothing to do with the CPU.

It's a mobile phone cellular frequency band:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_frequencies

 

[Shadowbech]

Nothing to do with the CPU.

It's a mobile phone cellular frequency band:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_frequencies

ah ha. I misread. But according to that site, it states that AT&T is 850/1900

 

[bp1000]

Im running on 900mhz here in the uk and get brilliant signal.

Of course none of it matters much if you live in a strong signal area On 2100mhz

 

[DerekRod]

Im running on 900mhz here in the uk and get brilliant signal.

Of course none of it matters much if you live in a strong signal area On 2100mhz

Id much rather a strong 900 MHZ signal better in building penetration

 

[scaredpoet]

Your location says you're in NYC (US). You're not gonna get 900MHz here, as cell carrier aren't licensed for that band in the US, but AT&T and Verizon do have some 850MHz spectrum in New York. No guarantee you'll always be on it though.

Sprint (for now) is 1900MHz only.

 

[falterego]

800MHz was used for iDEN phones on Sprint/Nextel in the US. Sadly I don't believe the chipset in the iPhone 4s will support the plan Sprint has to deploy LTE data on their 800MHz network.

Maybe next round at the end of 2012 will support it.

 

[DerekRod]

Your location says you're in NYC (US). You're not gonna get 900MHz here, as cell carrier aren't licensed for that band in the US, but AT&T and Verizon do have some 850MHz spectrum in New York. No guarantee you'll always be on it though.

Sprint (for now) is 1900MHz only.

Yeah Manhattan certainly doesn't have it my 4S wont go to EDGE which is what I would do on my 4 to get data.I wish I could force it but alas 5.1 so no jailbreak=No SBSettings

Supporting LTE on the 800 band requires a whole new chipset.The evolution of LTE was not like CDMA2000 where it didn't require new towers and handsets.