HSDPA – It gives you Wings!
According to a press release today, Fujitsu Japan and NTT have entered into a deal to offer the HSDPA version of the U50/U1010/U810/8240 through an online sales partner. As you can see, they’ve modded it slightly to include the antenna. The bundle includes a new ‘capped’ data plan (10,500 Yen max) which I assume you have to sign up for with the device. Which brings to question the reason why this model costs nearly 20% MORE than the non-hsdpa version. In Europe, if you sign up for a 24 month data contract you expect to save money.
Orders will be taken in October for a November delivery. Cost, 175,000 JPY ($1500) which seems expensive to me. Especially for what appears to be a SIM locked model.
Fujitsu PR (Google translation.)
Thanks to Rob for the news.
