HSDPA

[Guest daniel_owen_uk]

In the orange manual it shows a H symbol in the notifications bar.

In my office I would almost always get a HSDPA signal with my HTC Hero, as of yet I haven't seen this symbol on my SanFran.

Browsing speed is probably better than my hero, I just haven't seen the symbol.

Has anyone else?

[Guest stuartmc]

Pretty sure I saw it over the weekend. Coverage here so bad I can only get GPRS so can't check now.

[Guest blackmath]

If such a symbol existed, I should definitely have seen it. Which I haven't.

Speedtest is about on par with previous HSDPA phones I've had.

[Guest Paul]

A lot of stock android devices show 3G rather than H, i.e. don't differentiate HSDPA.

P

[Guest stuartmc]

OK now know where I'd seen it check out page 45 of the manual. Pretty sure I saw it on the actual phone as well though

[Guest daniel_owen_uk]

Seeing 854kbps on www.mobilespeedtest.com (3g 3 bars) if anyone is in HSDPA region (and sees the symbol), just have a look there please :lol:

Edited September 27, 2010 by daniel_owen_uk

[Guest Kuteguy]

In the orange manual it shows a H symbol in the notifications bar.

In my office I would almost always get a HSDPA signal with my HTC Hero, as of yet I haven't seen this symbol on my SanFran.

Browsing speed is probably better than my hero, I just haven't seen the symbol.

Has anyone else?

I haven't seen the symbol. But, wow internet is SUPER fast - almost faster than my wifi (via ADSL router)!

[Guest stuartmc]

Now mine is unlocked got it connected to my Vodafone Suresignal which gives H on my Motorola V9 and Samsung Omnia and SFO is just showing 3G+ no H.

[Guest blackmath]

Now mine is unlocked got it connected to my Vodafone Suresignal which gives H on my Motorola V9 and Samsung Omnia and SFO is just showing 3G+ no H.

3G+ is HSDPA.

HSDPA is actually still only 3G (third generation tech), but phones and operators like to show that they offer the better 3G connections by calling is 3g+ or HSDPA.

Edited September 27, 2010 by blackmath

[Guest anything-but]

Is HSDPA covered everywhere as i just done a speedtest here in Higham kent and got GPRS speeds. :lol:

Off to work now so i`ll try in London soon.

[Guest JackSF]

I get 3G+ speeds at home, speedtest shows 532kbps up and 237kbps down. Not too shabby :lol:

Edited September 28, 2010 by JackSF

[Guest dan653]

san francisco on orange payg...

at work (tidworth)... B)

at home (salisbury plain)... :lol:

will post some o2 results soon now it's been unlocked

[Guest cjb110]

Getting the 3G+ symbol with my o2 sim, so assuming people are correct and there's not 3G>3G+>H :)

[Guest jonathonf]

Apparently Orange call HDSPA 3G+, therefore their phones show "3G+" not "H".

Basically as far as we're concerned (until 2.2 works) 3G+ = H.

[Guest ToMonkey]

I can get 3G and also the letter E which I have never heard of.

Its listed on a couple of web sites, is that any good.

Whats fastest?

[Guest Marinetux]

I can get 3G and also the letter E which I have never heard of.

Its listed on a couple of web sites, is that any good.

Whats fastest?

Hi,

the letter E stands for EDGE. It´s faster than GPRS and usually pretty much slower than 3G, but it provides decent speed for browsing the web :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Data...r_GSM_Evolution

[Guest clonmult]

I can get 3G and also the letter E which I have never heard of.

Its listed on a couple of web sites, is that any good.

Whats fastest?

I rarely get Edge listed, although I do remember over at one ex's place that (on Orange), it would alternate between GPRS, EDGE, 3G and HSDPA depending on ... well, I never did quite figure it out.

Oranges Edge coverage seems to be extremely bad, they can't have done a complete roll-out across their network.

[Guest Simon O]

I rarely get Edge listed, although I do remember over at one ex's place that (on Orange), it would alternate between GPRS, EDGE, 3G and HSDPA depending on ... well, I never did quite figure it out.

Oranges Edge coverage seems to be extremely bad, they can't have done a complete roll-out across their network.

Orange were one of the last to roll out EDGE in the UK and it's definitely not UK wide. I'm with T-Mobile and they don't even have EDGE so the upcoming network sharing won't help on the EDGE front.

My home is in a bad 3G area and I often lose it to 2G GPRS :)

[Guest mark2410]

well here, on o2 it shows 3G+, on orange it doesnt but still gives me about 2mbit down, 1ish up. so its still an hsdpa but isnt saying so which is odd.

anyway just to comment about edge coverage, it is nothing like that at all here. tmob have no edge at all. o2 i have once for about 2 min seen it on edge, orange any time ive forced the phone to 2g it almost always goes to edge. orange may for 3g bee the slowest network here but its consistently reliable and has easily the best 2g data network

oh and naturally 3 have the best 3g network

[Guest myfeetsmell]

seems pretty quick here too. This is the speeds i recorded:

The icon that is showing for this speed is 3G+, so like people said same as HSDPA

not too shabby for o2

Edited October 4, 2010 by myfeetsmell

[Guest silverblack]

In the orange manual it shows a H symbol in the notifications bar.

In my office I would almost always get a HSDPA signal with my HTC Hero, as of yet I haven't seen this symbol on my SanFran.

Browsing speed is probably better than my hero, I just haven't seen the symbol.

Has anyone else?

Comes up as 3G+ on t-mobile.

[Guest Cobble]

Probably as fast as any phone I've put my 3 sim into.

This was in Belfast city centre at 7am this morning with 3G+ showing -

Edited October 4, 2010 by Cobble