Slingblade

I'm not a tech/wireless guru, so I don't know about all the hardware/software limitations involved, but with WiFi around 2.4 GHz and WiMAX around 2.5, would it be possible with the right software for a Pre to use the WiFi radio to rx/tx a WiMAX signal? This possibility would explain the absence of a WiMAX-specific radio in the FCC filings.

emuneee

While WiMax and Wifi share some similarities (and in Sprint's 4G implementation almost similar frequencies), WiFi will NOT transmit/receive a WiMAx signal. The protocol is different. Wifi is 802.11, WiMax is 802.16. Please Google the protocols and you will see that their implementations are fundamentally different. Different protocols REQUIRE different radios aka hardware which has to be tested by the FCC. People are really wishful here.

crogs571

Wifi&BT.

Go to page 9. Clearly states your 2.4 to 2.483ghz range. Clearly states it's for Wifi and BT. GFSK & 8PSK refer to BT.

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reverendrhino

So by Sprint saying/pushing 4G over & over again, is it false advertising?

nerdtalker

How is it false advertising? The Pre isn't a 4G device, period. End of story. Sprint has a 4G network they're rolling out, that's what the advertising is talking about.

If you want 4G, wait for 4G phone chipsets and radio stacks to come out, and buy one of those. Otherwise, buy one of the 4G datacards and enjoy in Baltimore and like one or two other Clearwire markets.

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crogs571

false advertising because you can't treat mentioning the coming of a 4g network and a sliding Pre as two separate things?

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rambo47

I don't believe there is a single 4G phone on the market now, or even announced. Just a few data cards.

cardfan

If i was Sprint, i'd forget spending millions promoting the Pre and spend that money getting 4G out. That's their ticket.

crogs571

there are 1 or 2 4g phones that exist. whether or not they're in actual production is another story.

Outrigger

There could be a million 4G phones that exist, if its not in production means they're not out for all intent and purposes. There is no false advertising by Sprint. They never claimed that Pre can be 4G capable which it isn't. Sometimes, people just read waaaaaay too much into a simple ad. You know the saying, people see what they want to see.

Lets please put an end to all this non sense, there are no 4G phones out right now and the current Pre cannot and never will run on 4G. Adding a patch does NOT turn a 3G phone into a 4G phone just like upgrading a firmware on a standard def TV does not turn it into an HDTV!

reverendrhino

Geez, it was just a question. I could care less if the phone was 3G, 4G, or 5G as long as it freakin' works when I get it.

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KJ78

I think Sprint is trying to say wifi is the 4g network. At least I hope that is what they mean. Otherwise their advertising makes no sense.

crogs571

hey Outrigger, if you want to rant, don't reference me. I'll tell you to pound sand as I've been on the right side of this argument.

crogs571

I don't think your post makes sense. they are bringing you the first 4G network. It's called wimax. It has absolutely nothing to do with the Pre. The fact that the Pre is thrown into the commercial as a teaser right after the 4G comment is purely coincidental. It's only people on here that are trying to say the 2.4ghz radio used for wifi & BT is for wimax.

rambo47

If they're not in actual production they're vaporware. Dreams and visions don't count.

quipper8

Not necessarily, there are SDR(software defined radios) coming out now, check infineon who already makes lots of the radio chips in cell phones

X-GOLDâ„¢ SDR 20 - Infineon Technologies

They have a new one out, you can program it to do whatever:

This lists the software packages they already have available for it which doesn't include wimax, but I am sure they could do that as well with this chip.

crogs571

< < Ed by Dieter > > I just answered the man's question.

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bigkev1469

We the manager @ sprint said the palm is going to work and she is a palm avdacate so she did pre test and all that good stuff

WAMS

you mean the manager that makes $8.50 instead of $8.25 an hour..... thats the same manager that told me i was going to win the lottery, so i quit my job!!

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Possible future 4G model of the Palm Pre: Does Palm Pre use Sprint 4G? | Free Cell Phone Deals

There are some really strange claims on this forum (i.e. Palm Pre is 4G capable) but I don't know: 4G?? - Palm Pre