Saturday, October 27, 2007

EDGE Technology on Nokia Phones and Devices

Connect With Speed
Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) enables data connections three times faster than GPRS within the same multislot class. Like GPRS, you're billed for the data you transfer, not for the time you spend connected.

The Benefits of EDGE
EDGE on Nokia opens up a lot of possibilities for connecting to data networks on your Nokia mobile phone, making it far less frustrating to stream video and download larger files.

What You Can Do With EDGE

  • Connect to your office or personal email account - you can even set your phone to check for email automatically using data sync
  • Browse the Internet on your phone
  • Synchronize your phone and office calendar while you're out of town
  • Download ringing tones, graphics, and games
  • Play online games (one example of this is the N-Gage Arena)
  • Send and receive MMS messages
  • Use your phone as a modem, connecting your laptop to the Internet
  • Subscribe to mobile services that bring you personalized information like sports updates, breaking news, horoscopes, share prices, the daily trip-hop-country single...
  • Use Java applications that require a network connection
  • Chat using instant messaging on your phone
  • Update your friends' Presence status

EDGE (based on GPRS) is better than a GSM connection for data that's transferred in larger "chunks." And unlike voice calls and dial-up Internet connections, you pay for how much you transfer, not for how long you're connected. You can have an active connection all the time if you like, which is nice if you need to synchronize periodically with a network or if you're expecting an important email. If you need to make or answer a phone call, your EDGE connection is automatically disconnected for the duration of the call.

How EDGE Works
To use EDGE, you need a phone that supports it, a subscription from your network operator that supports EDGE, and the proper settings.
EDGE is based on General Packet Radio Service, which sends "packets" of data over a radio wave (on the GSM network). Packet switching works like a jigsaw puzzle: your data is split into many pieces, then sent over the network and reassembled at the other end. GPRS is just one of the ways to transport these jigsaw puzzles.
When you talk on a mobile phone, a continuous connection to a channel is reserved for you on the GSM network, which means nobody else can use that channel. With EDGE, you can still have a continuous connection, but you only use the channel when you're sending data.
So, you might be connected to a channel all the time, but you only actually use it when you're sending data. One channel can be shared by many people. This is why you're billed for data transferred, not for time.

EDGE is significantly faster than than CSD (Circuit Switched Data, sometimes just called GSM Data). However, you may find transfers slower than maximum speed during peak hours in busy cell networks, because voice connections usually take precedence. As with GPRS, the data transfer rate also depends on your multislot class (see the GPRS section for details).

Pulses and Bits
EDGE uses a slightly different technology than GPRS called 8PSK, or 8-Phase Shift Keying. Here's a very simplified explanation: data is sent over GPRS and EDGE in pulses. With GPRS, a pulse can carry 1 bit of data, but with EDGE, one pulse carries 3 bits. So it's not that the data actually moves faster, it's that more can be moved at any given time.

What if EDGE Isn't Covered?
In areas where an EDGE network is not available, connections will fall back on GPRS as a default.

EDGE Technology Compatible with :
Nokia E90 Communicator, Nokia E70 Smartphone, Nokia E65, Nokia E61I, Nokia E61 Smartphone, Nokia E60 Smartphone, Nokia E50 Business Device, Nokia 9500 Communicator, Nokia 9300i Device, Nokia 9300 Device, Nokia 8800 Phone, Nokia 8600 Luna, Nokia 7900 Prism Phone, Nokia 7710 Widescreen Smartphone, Nokia 7500 Prism Phone, Nokia 7370 Phone, Nokia 7360 Phone, Nokia 7270 Phone, Nokia 7260 Phone, Nokia 6681 Smartphone, Nokia 6680 Smartphone, Nokia 6630 Smartphone, Nokia 6500 classic, Nokia 6500 slide, Nokia 6301, Nokia 6300 Phone, Nokia 6290 Phone, Nokia 6280 Phone, Nokia 6270 Phone, Nokia 6233 Phone, Nokia 6230i Phone, Nokia 6230 Phone, Nokia 6151 Phone, Nokia 6136 Phone, Nokia 6131 Phone, Nokia 6125 Phone, Nokia 6121 classic, Nokia 6111 Phone, Nokia 6110 Navigator, Nokia 6103 Phone, Nokia 6101, Nokia 6086 Phone, Nokia 6085 Phone, Nokia 6080 Phone, Nokia 6070 Phone, Nokia 6021 Phone, Nokia 6020 Phone, Nokia 5700 XpressMusic, Nokia 5500 Phone, Nokia 5140i Phone, Nokia 5140 Phone, Nokia 5070 Phone, Nokia 3250 Phone, Nokia 3250 XpressMusic, Nokia 3230 Phone, Nokia 3220 Phone, Nokia 3110 classic, Nokia N95, Nokia N93, Nokia N92, Nokia N91, Nokia N91 8GB, Nokia N90, Nokia N80, Nokia N77, Nokia N73, Nokia N73 Music Edition, Nokia N72, Nokia N71, Nokia N70, Nokia N70 Music Edition, Nokia 7280 Phone, Nokia 7200 Phone, Nokia 6822, Nokia 6820 Messaging Device, Nokia 6810 Messaging Device, Nokia 6220 Phone, Nokia 6170 Phone, Nokia 3200 Phone.


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