> We can't buy individual SIM's and carrier contracts here in Japan,
> can we?
If you are clever about it, then you get a top-range HSPDA phone
with mobile TV etc for YEN 1 in addition to the SIM card.
That's how backward Japan is.
Gerhard
On 2007/10/07, at 16:44, .~* Greg Conquest *~. wrote:
> So, if one of OpenMoko's successors to the Neo1973 has a wCDMA or
> other
> Japan-compatible radios, how would one use it with the carriers here?
> Buy a simple phone from SoftBank or au or docomo just for the SIM card
> and access plan?
>
> We can't buy individual SIM's and carrier contracts here in Japan,
> can we?
>
> Greg
>
> Gerhard Fasol wrote:
>> OpenMoko according to my information has a GSM radio/modem
>> only - see below. Japan has several different and independent
>> radio networks (around 7-8 depending on how you count)
>> but none of them is GSM - therefore a GSM radio-based phone
>> like OpenMoko will not connect in Japan.
>>
>> If you are looking for "smart phones" which work in Japan,
>> there are Symbian phones and MS-Windows mobile phones.
>>
>> you can also use JAVA programming.
>>
>> Or you can pursuade OpenMOKO to move from "legacy"
>> GSM and add wCDMA or HSDPA radios
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>> Gerhard
>>
>>
>> | GSM/GPRS
>> | The GSM (including GPRS) modem is Texas Instruments Calypso based.
>> |
>> | * Connected to: S3C2410 UART1 (full-uart, RxD, TxD, CTS,
>> RTS), /
>> dev/ttySAC0 in userspace
>> | * PM Driver: https://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/src/target/kernel/
>> patches/gta01-power_control.patch
>> | * Accessible GSM/GPRS antenna jack (if battery cover is
>> removed)
>> |
>> | CALYPSO digital baseband
>> | Unfortunately we cannot provide many details on the GSM chipset due
>> to very tight NDAs.
>> | However, this is not neccessarily required, since it interfaces
>> using a standard UART
>> | serial line with the S3C2410. On that interface, GSM 07.05, GSM
>> 07.10
>> | and other standardized protocols are used.
>> | TWL3014 analog baseband
>> |
>> | Product Homepage: TWL3014
>> | TRF6151 RF Transceiver
>> |
>> | Product Homepage: TRF6151
>> | Quad-band support
>> | GPRS Class12/CS4
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