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Telecommunications Telstra's Next G handset ticks: now in 'shades of blue'
Telecommunications Telstra's Next G handset ticks: now in 'shades of blue' | Telstra's Next G handset ticks: now in 'shades of blue' |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Thursday, 28 February 2008 | |
  
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However, as part of a series of commitments it has made to the government to ensure it is permitted to close its CDMA network on 28 April, the Next G web site now provide information on each handset model recommending where it should be used. The best performing, blue-ticked, handsets are all "recommended for rural handheld coverage outside regional centres and towns." The worst-performing non-blue ticked units are "recommended for handheld use in metropolitan and major regional areas." And there are now a number of handsets with performance somewhere between these two extremes. They do not carry a blue tick but are "Recommended for handheld use in regional areas." Finally, there is one model, the Telstra 850 that carries no usage recommendation at all (not to be confused with the HTC Touch Dual 850 which is recommended for handheld use in metropolitan and major regional areas) . |
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