More details surface on Sony Ericsson's W890i
By Sean Cooper 
posted Oct 18th 2007 3:58PM
posted Oct 18th 2007 3:58PM
The new Sony Ericsson W890i we saw late last month is getting a bit more fleshed out as the weeks trickle by. If you believe the spec sheet, it'll be available in maroon as well as the black pictured above, comes packing quad-band GSM, UMTS, and, wait for it, HSDPA at 850 MHz. How can this be? A Sony Ericsson handset with HSDPA that'll work on AT&T in the US and Rogers Wireless in Canada is a like a cellular dream come true. Sadly, internal memory disappoints at only 40 MB, though it can be bolstered by shelling out for some Memory Stick Micro (M2). Not much else new can be gleaned but we're hoping for pricing and a launch date soon.
No 1900MHz UMTS/HSDPA, No AT&T. Looks more like an Australian phone for Telstra's netowrk to me.
Or a Canadian phone...Rogers Wireless has UMTS/HSDPA at 850Mhz.
Those specs are indeed very Telstra-looking. But I doubt SE of all companies would release a phone JUST for Telstra. Given Ericsson's portfolio of just two HSDPA chipsets, the U350 (HSDPA 2100) and U360 (HSDPA 850/1900/2100), I don't find it likely that a SE-released HSDPA 850 phone would lack HSDPA 1900.
TURBO BLACK!
Yeah, this isn't going to work out on AT&T if it doesn't have 1900. As has been said, HSDPA 850 is for Telstra. This wouldn't be the first phone to be HSDPA 850/2100; the Nokia 6120 Classic is.
But yeah, I think it would be weird for Sony Ericsson to make a dualband HDSPA phone when clearly they have triband HSDPA chips. This may be a typo. When the K850 first showed up on their website it didn't have HSDPA 1900 listed.
I call fake. The product picture seems to be a photoshopped version of the spyshots presented earlier.