Sprint Treo Pro to support simultaneous voice and data?
What we have here, folks, is a classic case of a blessing in disguise. After a bit of a false start, Sprint seems to have semi-officially pulled the Treo Pro launch until late February. Bad news, right? Well, sort of. First off, the company is attempting to appease anyone that ordered the device early with a $25 account credit. More importantly, however, it sounds like the Treo Pro could be the first Sprint device to allow for simultaneous voice and data usage. Granted, the news comes from a bit of a dubious source, but if it turns out to be true it could mark a bit of a milestone for the carrier. The EV-DO Rev. A band is technically capable of allowing this work, but the CDMA world has yet to enjoy the pleasure of surfing the mobile web while attempting to pay attention to a rambling family member on the other end of the line. Such luxury has been afforded to the GSM world since the early days of 3G, so we can only hope that Sprint makes this move official. In the mean time, we’re looking into starting a support group for the 12-13 folks out there that are actually eagerly awaiting the Treo Pro, especially with the impending arrival of the Palm Pre. Way to cannibalize your own sales by pushing the introduction of the last of your previous generation devices closer and closer to the introduction of your next gen. flagship device. Seriously, Sprint/Palm…we’re impressed.
WRONG again… and the post just slightly above by celz is someone talking completely out their AZZ.
EVDO the DE portion originally stood for Data Only as oposed to the original standard that was to follow EVDO tha was EVDV… get the picture? The reaon 3G works on WBCDMA is because it handles MULTIPLE streams symultaneourly, one of the streams can be voice and one can by data. If the phone says 3G then it has no contact with the GSM RAN at all, only talking to the 3G RAN.
So why am I not surprised that I come to BGR (which I don’t do regularly) and find two articles with WRONG info?
@ NuShrike
Yeah… I can definitely say that I was using both voice+data with my OLD Sprint 6700 PPC. So I don’t know what your talking about when you say that you can’t do this on EV-DO, especially EV-DO Rev A… Do your homework before you make claims like this.
I don’t give a care about talk/data at the same time, would be a nice feature though
@joeg:
I access my Exchange on WiFi and Wm 6.1 daily. Your IT department needs to get its act together on the server side.
EVDO Rev. A CAN’T support simultaneous voice and data. Saying it can is completely inaccurate. The built in WiFi would allow this, but that is obvious. EVDO Rev. B can do this but is not the technology path of any major carrier. Verizon is going LTE for the next gen instead of EVDO REV B. As far as VOIP, give me a break! VOIP on a cell phone handing off from tower to tower is slightly more reliable than a tin can and string.
Completely bunk.