Nexus One on AT&T 3G

To make one phone that fits all might be hard. Although sprint and verizon are cdma you cannot make one work on the other. They are incompatible. Of course we know t-mobile and ATT are compatible for service, just not highspeed data. And as of right now this is all done by hardware.

I did read about a phone, might have been a blackberry that changed the radios using software instead of hardware. But I am not sure of its total capbilities. To make a phone that supported all UMTS bands would be easy. There is no reason except for red tape that a phone cannot support ATT and T-mobile. But to throw verizon and sprint in on the deal would be difficult. Totally different technologies.

I know what google said but I just dont see how it is possible especially since they are not doing it.

I think I might be in tears... FOR THE FIRST TIME WE'RE ON THE SAME PAGE!!!

I never got a chance to make my point but that is what I was getting at...  Its not about who has the "best 3G coverage" or about what luke wilson has to say... its about getting the best 3G experience with the best 3G phone!  For me anyway I don't know what I'm going to do when the contract's up in feb 11 but I do know I would LIKE to for ONCE in my life consider all options.  T-mobile you have to walk outside, and verizon you have to accept you phone's more locked down than AT&T... whatever I just wanna for ONCE have the right to choose instead of just surrendering to AT&T because its what I have now and its what I'll always have.  On that note I do believe the Nexus one is the fourth in a line of "popular phones".  the first was the Nokia 5100 series.  The second was the Motorola Razr and all its clones.  The Third was nothing more than the iPhone.  The 4th?  Android all the way baby!

By the end of this year AT&T will regret it signed a contract with iphone.  MARK MY WORDS!!!   I just wanna know who wants to bet me?  Android is the FUTURE.  iPhone?  What are Mac's these days?  Exactly!  When its all said and done the iPhone will be loved by the "mac" crowd only and Android will be as welcome as Wndows 7 is to PC's!   Thats what I believe!  And as far as this "Windows 7 phone" series goes I think its great MS is acknowledgeing Android and iPhone OS are a problem, but by the time Windows 7 phone series is released it'll be too little too late.

does anyone remember when long distance competition got rates down to four cents? now its back up to... i don't know, i have an  area code package and dropped the rest. but it was around forty cents.

that's what will happen to cell phones without contracts. first the prices will go up because they aren't guaranteed your money. competition will drive them down, and then they will rise again and end up costing more than the original price increase.

and while they might make a phone compatible with all networks, the networks won't be the same anytime soon unless the government takes control of telecommunications the way it has in eu nations.
its easy to have good service border to border in a country the size of new jersey with flat terrain. especially when they can just put up a tower anywhere they choose without the threat of cancer cluster studies, one white eyed snail habitat lawsuits, and neighborhood beautication initiatives.

it's not going to be one phone that works on all four networks, it's going to be four different versions of the same phone.

... Huh? Any reason you are reviving old, dead posts?