I was reading one of my RSS feeds this afternoon and I saw that Samsung has come up with a Dual SIM phone that can receive calls/data/messages from both SIMs simultaneously. Pretty cool, huh? I could use one of these phones as my main phone, pop in my AT&T SIM and my Cosmote SIM and have access to both my Greek and US number at the same time! Of course there is only one problem, the phone is triband GSM (900/1800/1900).

Come on! It’s 2008 already! The 850Mhz frequency has been in use for at least 4 years now, and Quadband GSM chips are everywhere, even in Nokia phones! I don’t get why companies bring out phones that are not Quadband. Quadband GSM should be the minimum requirement for all GSM phones.

Of course the best solution would be to have all phones be Quandband GSM (850/900/1800/1900) and Quintband HSPA (850/900/1900/1700/2100) so you can access high speed 3G speeds around the globe.

I am not the globe trotter I used to be, so in theory I should not care as much for the non-US frequencies, but it makes me feel nice to know that if I wanted to go to France tomorrow I could access their 3G networks, and when I came back and wanted to switch from AT&T to T-Mobile I could have access to that 3G network as well!