Telstra’s Next G line-up adds more top-end phones to the mix

by Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Monday, 24 November 2008

Page 1 of 3 ! Looking for a new phone? Telstra has six of the latest models on the way, in stores from December 1st, ready for the Christmas rush, and ready for all those tempted by Telstra’s ads to get a better signal with Next G in more places. Which phones are coming? If there’s one thing you need for any phone network, it’s phones to go with it. The initial drought that the 850MHz Next G network originally went through a couple of years ago when the network first launched has been well and truly over for some time now, with this newest selection ensuring that some of the best “state of the art” phones are again on Telstra, following up the existing range which already includes Nokia, Sony Ericsson, BlackBerry (RIM), Palm, i-mate and HTC, among many others. Even the vaunted Apple iPhone works on the 850MHz frequency Telstra uses, but not (yet) the 900MHz 3.5G network being installed by Optus and Vodafone, with the 900MHz network going through a bit of a drought in terms of handsets, although just as this passed for Telstra, it will eventually pass for Optus and Vodafone too. The 850MHz network (like the 900MHz network) offers the benefits of being able to be transmitted and received over much longer distances in rural and regional areas, and much further into buildings (such as lifts and basements) than the 2100MHz 3.5G frequency. As Telstra has the added benefit of having dismantled the 850MHz CDMA network, the Next G 850MHz 3.5G frequency is no longer facing the 2G/CDMA “pollution” that 900MHz 3.5G networks still face from 900MHz GSM 2G phones. That said, as more and more people move to 3.5G phones and ditch older 2G phones, this problem will abate for Optus and Vodafone too, it’s just that Telstra has already eliminated the problem and with its new advertising campaign is taking advantage of the situation to the hilt. The 850MHz network is also in use by AT&T in the US and Rogers in Canada, to name two big players and two big countries, so it’s a frequency that phone manufacturers cannot ignore, although with 900MHz being rolled out elsewhere around the world too, 900MHz can’t be ignored either, it’s just catching up to 850MHz and 2100MHz today. So, what are the latest phones from Telstra that launch this week and are due in stores from December 1, just in time for Christmas? Please read on to page 2! << First page <   1 2 3 Next page > Last page - Post your comment >>

 

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