Help 3.5g??

[ram100987]

Well of course the G1 is capable of 3G network connection. well I happen to look at the HTC website for a second at http://www.htc.com/www/product/g1/overview.html and if you scroll down where it give some features of the phone it states "High-Speed 3.5G network connection."

I'm sure there's some simple explanation for this like a typo or something but just thought I'd post it so that someone might let me in on what this means because t-mobile is only soon going to be releasing a 3G network, they can't be getting ready to release some EVEN FASTER 3.5G network yet.....

 

[PhantomTrace]

wow thats really interesting.... I am ****ing so confused_ can some1 explain this!!

 

[sleebus.jones]

Well, you can always start by going to google and punching in "3.5G" but here's the summary:

• 3.5G:
  • UMTS (HSDPA)
  • UMTS (HSUPA)
  • UMTS (HSPA+)

AFAIK, T-Mobile is UMTS HSPDA, just like the iPhone. So yeah, you're going to get 3.5G.

 

[HCSC]

a little history:
2G - GPRS
2,5G - GPRS+EDGE
3G - UMTS
3,5G - 3G+HSDPA
4G - WiMax (will be, very soon)