Sprint Announces Addition to Rev. A Lineup
Feb 1, 2007, 10:44 AM by (staff)
Sprint and Novatel Wireless have announced that they will offer the Merlin EX720 by late February, Sprint's first Rev. A-capable ExpressCard. According to Sprint, it will be available via sales channels and retail stores and will cost $179.99 with two-year subscription. Along with the product announcement, Sprint is also adding several more markets to its Rev. A deployment (Southern Florida, Portland, Ore., and Puerto Rico) and raising its advertised EV-DO network speeds. Rev. A markets are seeing average upload speeds of 350-500 Kbps and download speeds of 600 Kbps - 1.4 Mbps, compared to previously advertised upload speeds of 50-70 Kbps and download speeds of 400-700 Kbps. No word on whether or not these are real-world speeds. Lastly, Sprint has also announced that the EX720, as well as the Novotel U720 and S720, will be able to take advantage of location-based services (LBS) through an upgraded version of the Sprint Connection Manager software.
iPhone 15 Series Goes All-In on USB-C and Dynamic Island
Samsung S24 Series Adds More AI, Updates the Hardware
Galaxy Ring Joins Samsung's New Wearable Lineup
Samsung Puts its Best Camera Yet in the Galaxy S23 Ultra
OnePlus 11 Pumps up Flagship Specs
Comments
Discrepancy?
real world speeds (Denver)
S720:
download - 800 kb/s - 1.3 mb/s
upload - 400 kb/s - 750 kb/s
Sierra 580:
download - 750 kb/s - 950 kb/s
upload - 100 kb/s - 140 kb/s
These speeds are averaged over a few days at different times of the day and in different parts of the city ranging from downtown to the foothills along I-70, trying to prevent system congestion and other variables from skewing the results.
There are a few times/places that the speeds are lower and some where it's faster, but these numbers average this.
Denver is almost fully covered with rev. A and there are only a few places where it will revert to 1xRTT. (you can select EVDO only in th...
(continues)
