Android-powered handsets are still rare enough so that the world can't afford to segment them by continent -- when a big model comes out, it's pretty much got to go everywhere. Okay, correction: it doesn't
have to go everywhere, but we certainly want it to -- and fortunately, it looks like some lucky carrier in the Americas is signed up for the Huawei U8220. You might know this puppy better as the
Pulse over on T-Mobile in Europe, and a new variant of the device -- model number U8220-6 -- has just garnered FCC approval in the past few days with 3G on the 850 and 1900MHz bands. That means Bell, Telus, Rogers, Fido, and AT&T could all be on tap to get this one; we doubt that AT&T would make its inaugural Android plunge with a midrange Huawei, but stranger things have happened.
[Via
androphones.com, thanks Silver]
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Tags: android, edge, fcc, gsm, hsdpa, huawei, others, pulse, t-mobile, u8220, umts
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Not Available @ Nov 3rd 2009 6:21PM
haha, great extension for north america's 3g network.
btw, what's Huawei U8220?
Austin @ Nov 3rd 2009 7:00PM
It's for WIND in Canada.
Taknarosh @ Nov 3rd 2009 7:56PM
Wrong,
For one WIND is in trouble with the CRTC over being "foreign owned" by Orascom and needs $150 million dollars in Canadian investments to fit the Regulations that dictate that a telecommunication company must be in "Canadian" owned.
Secondly and the most convincing fact, WIND won the AWS (1700/2100) bands in Canada (except in Quebec, where the EVIL empire known as Quebecor poured in more money into the AWS bands auction in Quebec than WIND did for the AWS bands in the rest of Canada).
Therefor this 850/1900 is NOT destined for WIND, if it launches at all.
Anthony @ Nov 3rd 2009 9:21PM
It's obviously not destined for T-Mo USA. No AWS band.