Nokia's RD-3 modem boldly boasts LTE, and no, you can't have one
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Sep 7th 2009 5:13PM
posted Sep 7th 2009 5:13PM
Nokia makes out its just-announced RD-3 data modem to be the dream of every road warrior: global GSM / EDGE, global HSPA, global LTE -- a twenty-plus year heritage of technologies in the GSM family tree compressed into a single device, powerful enough to get you service from a dusty GPRS cell site in some of the world's harshest landscapes or Verizon's LTE trials in Boston and Seattle just the same. The only problem is that you can't have it. The RD-3 is instead being reserved for carriers and infrastructure firms building out LTE networks around the globe as they march toward commercial availability in 2010, at which point Nokia (and others) will presumably have newer, better modems available for us lay folk to enjoy. In the meanwhile, though, it's alright: go ahead and drool.
Well we'll get it eventually. It's better usable for businesses anyways. I would just use it for gaming. So the businesses deserve it more. Good job Nokia.
Gaming is a business.
And a damn large one.
I cant haz?
You no worthy
If I cant haz one why da frick shoudda care abouthah uh?
You tell me?
Jia Junpeng, your mom is calling you to come home and eat.
Is there any need for engadgetmobile?
no
iPhone 4G....with every streaming app allowed! Watch Slingplayer in HQ!
GPRS? What if I can only get a GSM signal? Can I at least do packet switched like on my old 2110 with its $900 PCMCIA modem card? Those were the days - thinking that a mobile 9600 connection was "da bomb".
How often do you get GSM without GPRS?
the post says "global GSM/EDGE". That means it could do GSM (if you ever encounter GSM and nothing else)
Nokia forgot to put a rumble motor in my N90. :(
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A contractor puts the tower part and some electric cabinets in place. The the provider place the tech.
Now in some cases they don't have the proper recources to place or replace modules.
These things aren't that large.
So they dissapear easily.
Catch my drift.
Hackers will probably pay a nice amount for such a modem.
Of course they'll have a serial number and/or IMEI. But security can be broken
Guess I'll have to hold out for a Nokla version then...