By and large, China's networks are dominated by GPRS-only devices that make up in crazy user interfaces (and often
even crazier designs) what they lack in data speed. Carriers over there are finally in full swing rolling out a variety of 3G networks, though -- EV-DO, HSPA,
TD-SCDMA, you name it -- which should make mobile browsing a whole lot more satisfying of an experience when you're headed to that posh Shanghai office with a view. Anyhow, it seems that Alcatel is prepping a WinMo 6.1-powered side slider with 7.2Mbps HSDPA just for
China Unicom's nascent Wo network, which is an encouraging sign that Wo's users are going to have decent hardware in their hands to match the blazing speeds. It's got a WQVGA display, AGPS, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and pretty much every other modern smartphone amenity, which marks the first time in a long time (ever?) that we've expressed a tinge of envy for a domestic Chinese handset. Wo, Alcatel -- our hats go off to you on this one.
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posted May 27th 2009 4:49AM
Very nice
cellphone,it is so convenint! can i suffer the net by it ?
Except that Wo is on an invite-only basis until Sep. 30 unless you have a datacard. And to prevent you getting around that invite-only thing and going nuts with a datacard USIM they've disabled voice/videocalling from datacard USIMs.
I don't personally have a lot of knowledge of china's carrier network, but based on this article it is clear that window mobile is breaking into one of the largest, if not the largest market in the world.