The Nokia 6282 gets official in the US

Nokia officially announced a handful of new 3G handsets today. The slickest one of the bunch is the 6282, a slider-style phone with GSM/EDGE 850/1800/1900MHz and UMTS 1900 (but not HSDPA!), a 2.2-inch, QVGA display, one megapixel digital camera, integrated FM tuner, Bluetooth, and an miniSD memory card slot. Should be available early next year, almost definitely from Cingular.

[BaconBandit @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

Questions, questions, questions..

Ok... I'm slow. UMTS = WCDMA, right? So what is HSDPA? Is HSPDA capable over WCDMA/3G equipment, meaning Cingular's network not necessarily phones? How about vice-versa? Where does HSDPA fit in the whole 'G' spectrum? 3G? 3.5G,? double-0 gangster G?

[coolkamio @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSDPA

HSDPA = 3G much faster than 384kbps :P or 3.5G

Next time, use the wikipedia power!

[M-Nemesis @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

Hm...that should arrive in Canada in about 5-10yrs.
I'm convinced people in Antartica get better phones than us...Common ROGERS....

-M.

[Jim Jolo @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

I was much more excited about the N80 which seems to have been dropped by Cingular. Video calling, DUAL-BAND UMTS for world roaming, DUAL camera for Video calling and 802.11G WIFI. This mobile seems like the N80's broke cousin.

[Jim Jolo @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

I was much more excited about the N80 which seems to have been dropped by Cingular. Video calling, DUAL-BAND UMTS for world roaming, DUAL camera for Video calling and 802.11G WIFI. This mobile seems like the N80's broke cousin.

[supes @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

is "almost definitely" an oxymoron?

[anthony @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

I have to agree with Jim Jolo. I, too, was looking forward to the N80. This phone is nice, but the N80 has pretty much everything you could want in a phone. Maybe Cingular and Nokia will be aiming for two different segements with both of the phones.

[BaconBandit @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

Ok then.. Thanks for the wiki-link. Does anyone know if Cingular or any US cellular network will attempt to aquire 2100Mhz bandwidth? It just seems that all the good 3G phones already in existence use 2100, not 1900.

Engadget needs a forum... *hint* *hint* *nudge* *nudge*

[torkhum @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

i could use one for sure -my samsung 427 sucks more than the tunel in Total Recall. though i wonder how much i gotta cough up ....

[xbit @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

"Maybe Cingular and Nokia will be aiming for two different segements with both of the phones."

The N80 is a Symbian smartphone, has a 3MP camera and WiFi.

I'm sure they're aiming the 6282 at a more mass-market segment than the N80 (which will probably be quite expensive when released).

[anthony @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

@xbit

If it's ever released...the 6682 was supposed to be released months ago...and I thought it was, but every store in NYC i visit tells me the same thing, not in stock and they don't know when it will be. Now I know I can just go buy an unlocked 6680 or 6681, but it's the 850 band that i want most from it.

[Jonathan @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

BaconBandit,

UMTS and WCDMA aren't synonymous. WCDMA is the air interface (the way the signal is broken up over the frequency spectrum) that UMTS uses.

HSPDA is a UMTS enhancement that is basically 3.25 or 3.5G depending on how you view it. Cingular is implementing it on their network from the get-go because UMTS alone isn't as fast EV-DO. Any old UMTS handset won't work - it needs to be HSPDA enabled.

[Nick @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

Argh, Cingular. I wish Cingular didn't suck. :(

[Kiteless @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

Waaaaah! Where is my N80! I WANNNIIITT!!!! This one looks like it may be a close second though. It has most of the stuff that I want off the N80, but not that nice high res screen. QVGA is nothing to sneeze at though. Anybody know if this will run all the apps I have on my 6620?

- Kiteless

[waffffffle @ Dec 19th 2005 12:21AM]

Dimensions?