Nokia E90 hits FCC with lots of 3G bands -- destination T-Mobile?

Wait up just a second, let us get this straight: after years of teasing Americans with 3G smartphone after sweet 3G smartphone -- none of which packed even a lick of compatibility on US bands -- Nokia's going to rock its newest undisputed king of the hill, the E90, with every band we could possibly hope for? Of course, we don't want to count our chickens 'fore they're hatched lest we get fooled again, but the presence of Nokia's latest QWERTY-based Communicator device in the FCC's trusted hands sporting WCDMA on the 850, 1700, and 1900MHz bands is a very promising sign, indeed. As a refresher, T-Mobile will be launching its WCDMA network this year -- the last of the four national carriers to go 3G -- on the freshly-minted 1700MHz band, leaving future users without much of a handset selection from which to choose (as in, zero devices so far and few on the roadmap). But hey, with phones like this seemingly sitting in T-Mobile's pipeline, that's just fine by us.

[tjash1991 @ Mar 2nd 2007 7:52PM]

It would be more likely for Cingular to carry this phone as the successor to the 9300..

But who knows, Cingular obviously doesnt care for Nokia's N-series phones, maybe this in an exception.

[CharlieX @ Mar 2nd 2007 8:19PM]

As a long time TMO subscriber.... please kick some butt with some 3G sweetness... I need some data stat.

[Edward Case @ Mar 2nd 2007 9:58PM]

I see the 1700 MHz (AWS) but where is it's 2100Mhz companion? Also AWS.

[PreGHz @ Mar 2nd 2007 11:50PM]

We can't use the worldwide standard... FCC regulations doesn't allow that.

I have a SE W950i and I'll be SOL on using its 3G here. Depressing, isn't it?

[Jeremiah @ Mar 5th 2007 11:32AM]

Yeah I noticed that too! What happened to the American 2100MHz? I thought T-Mobile would be using both 1700 and American 2100?

[Andrew Hillman, Andrew Hillman @ Mar 2nd 2007 11:31PM]

www.tmobile.com

[Jamar @ Mar 3rd 2007 10:45AM]

And yet they are perfectly find with the testing that is going on under 2100MHz- the worldwide standard.

[Jamar @ Mar 3rd 2007 10:45AM]

And yet they are perfectly fine with the testing that is going on under 2100MHz- the worldwide standard.

[DBH @ Mar 3rd 2007 9:36AM]

E90 looks great, but HTC has all these pieces, and they have a long relationship with TMOB...so when do they come out with the E90 killer at ~$600?

[info @ Mar 3rd 2007 11:34AM]

Anyone with better eyes than me who can find the document at the FCC list which mentions the 1700 mhz (as in the picture posted on here)?? I can't!

[wday85 @ Mar 3rd 2007 2:18PM]

Yeah its on the first test report page 5

[Chris Ziegler @ Mar 3rd 2007 2:42PM]

Folks - as wday85 pointed out, it's on page 5 of Test Report 1. There are three FCC apps for the E90; it's possible that the other two don't make mention of WCDMA 1700. I've updated the URL to point to the particular filing I got the screenshot from.

Cheers,
Chris

[info @ Mar 3rd 2007 5:45PM]

Thank you! Found it on pg 5 :)

[Ryan @ Mar 4th 2007 1:12PM]

I am with t-mobile right now, it sucks we don't have 3G but. I will stay loyal to them, specially since I used 3G with t-mobile when I went to europe. I used there video calling service and fell in love, when would t-mobile get that in the us?

[Jeff R @ Mar 4th 2007 10:10PM]

Just the tip of the Iceberg. UMTS and AT Home service launching soon. Nokia awarded the UMTS contract in usa network. new york miami chicago mpls coming on

[Jeremiah @ Mar 5th 2007 11:33AM]

So where is the other 2100MHz band? Isn't T-Mobile using both 1700 and American 2100?

[Jeff R @ Mar 7th 2007 9:19PM]

did they buy spectum in that band in the last auction?

[Ani @ May 28th 2007 9:53AM]

Fax?? Vibrator?? I have a 9300i miss the vibrator

[Dominican Republic @ Jul 11th 2007 3:02AM]

T-Mobile is the BEST!