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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Mobile Email Technology on Nokia

Take Your Business And Private Email With You
Connect directly to your existing email - be it a web-based service, a PC email client such as Outlook Express®, a corporate email account, or all of the above - using your mobile phone.

What's in it for Me?

• Access your business and personal email accounts while away from your computer
• Coordinate and manage several different email accounts from one device - your mobile phone
• Receive alerts as new email arrives in your inbox
• Read and write email online or off, compose messages offline, and store messages in offline folders

Stay on Track

• Coordinate and manage several different accounts from one device - your mobile phone
• Receive alerts as new email arrives in your inbox
• View important documents as attachments
• Define how email is sent from your phone: immediately or during your next connection

Different Interface, Same Features

• Compose new messages, reply to and forward received messages, save drafts and received messages
• Insert image, audio or video attachments
• Write email using your phone keypad with predictive text input, symbol insertion, and built-in dictionary, plus a clipboard for cutting, copying, and pasting
• Status icons mark mail as draft, sent, new, or received

Enhanced Security

• Set preferences to remember your password or prompt you each time you enter the program
• Protect sensitive information through a virtual private network (VPN)

How It Works
Depending on the phone model, there are several different ways to access email with your mobile phone.

Symbian and Series 40
All Nokia devices running on Symbian OS and many Series 40 devices have an email program (called a "client") that can be used to download, read, and send email on your mobile phone. The email client lets you log in to your private or business email account supporting POP3, IMAP4, or SMTP protocols - the most widely used PC-email protocols.
SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and is typically used in programs that send email via the Internet. POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) and IMAP4 (Internet Message Access Protocol Version 4) are used to receive email messages, storing your mail on the server until you download it.

Connecting
Email is usually delivered to and from your mobile phone over a mobile network connection. The connection method you choose depends on which technologies your mobile phone supports. Nokia mobile phones may support different kinds of data connections: a GSM data connection (CSD), a GSM high-speed data connection (HSCSD), a general packet data (GPRS) connection, enhanced data rates for GSM evolution (EDGE), wideband code division multiple access (W-CDMA) or wireless local area network (WLAN).

Typically, an access point for the data connection must be configured to connect to a data service -- and the same is true for email. The necessary access point parameters can be sent over- the- air to your device by a commercial Internet service provider (ISP), service provider, or network operator.

You also have to define your email settings including your email address, your outgoing and incoming mail servers, your mailbox type, and other preferences. Your mailbox type defines the protocol for receiving emails, which can be POP3 or IMAP4. Most service providers can send all the required settings directly to your device. Check with your service provider to see which protocol they recommend.
You can also choose just to get the email headers (sender and subject line) first, and then decide which messages you'll download, saving you both time and connection charges.

Sending Mail
Depending on the phone model, there are several different ways to access email with your mobile phone.
After you have defined settings for a new mailbox, the name given to that mailbox will appear in the main view of the phone. The only time you need to connect is when you are sending a message or collecting new messages you have received. You can compose and read your messages offline.

Other Email Options
Email Using a Mobile Browser
Many new Nokia devices have an advanced HTML browser that you can use to access your Web-based email account.
IMAP4 Idle
The Nokia 6630 smartphone is the first Nokia device to support the idle functionality in the Internet standard IMAP4 technology. This technology enables the email service to directly send new email to your phone without any need for connecting manually.
RIM Blackberry™
Several Nokia phones support the Blackberry™ email system that enables users to receive new email automatically to their device, rather than through logging in to a server to manually fetch it. Blackberry™ is an operator-dependent feature, and requires a subscription for the service.


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