10 bands, 7 antennas, one phone - the Nokia Lumia 900

[irev210]

After reading that the Lumia 900 supports 10 bands and has 7 cellular antennas... my mind is officially blown.

 

From BGR:

The Lumia 900 features compatibility with 10 different cellular bands — GSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 850/900/1900 and LTE 700/1700/2100.

 

From anandtech:

http://images.anandtech.com/doci/5724/Screen%20Shot%202012-04-02%20at%202.59.15%20PM.png

 

After seeing this, a sprint phone with CDMA 800/850/1900 and LTE 700/800/1900/2500 doesn't seem all that crazy.

 

Am I the only one that was pretty impressed with this? With the 28nm qualcomm baseband that supports everything under the sun it doesn't seem far fetched to see a fully loaded sprint phone that actually has all of the needed antennas to support roaming on Verizon's 700MHz and 850MHz + sprint's native 800/1900 and Clearwire's 2.5.

[pyroscott]

That is very impressive. Gives more credence to this becoming a reality http://s4gru.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-149-could-there-be-one-iphone-to-rule-the-world%e2%80%99s-lte-networks/

[WiWavelength]

How do you arrive at "10 bands, 7 antennas"? I count the following seven bands:

 

Lower 700 MHz

Cellular 850 MHz

GSM 900 MHz

DCS 1800 MHz

PCS 1900 MHz

AWS 2100+1700 MHz

IMT 2100+1900 MHz

 

And I see one WWAN antenna covering those seven bands, plus a secondary MIMO/Rx diversity antenna for W-CDMA/LTE operation in at least four of those seven bands.

 

AJ

[Contreramanjaro]

Even if the number is optimistic it's quite impressive. I've been in love with Nokia's new designs. Only one more thing to make me buy this, the network.

 

...also, why is there a star of david under the main antenna?