Nokia N900 on T-Mobile US 3G Speed Test

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So someone who was lucky enough to get a N900 from 2009 Maemo Summit in Amsterdam came back to the States with it and decided to do a little speed test to see how the 1700mhz T-Mobile 3G frequency is used on the little bugger.

Here were his results:

N900 Speed test

So 2260 kbps down and 340kbps up. That’s pretty damn quick (especially considering T-Mobile’s current 3G data cap is only 3200 mbps, that means that it is getting really close to that cap).

To put that in perspective, iPhone 3GS which can use AT&T’s new 7200 kbps 3G data, only gets to about 1000kbps (in tests I’ve done here in South Florida, perhaps yours vary, regardless I doubt your getting over 2260 kbps…) and I used a Sprint Hero in one of their stores yesterday and did a speed test and only got 700 kbps down.

Wow… this thing needs to be released already. You can bet I will be doing some serious testing of this phone soon as I can get my hands on one. If anyone finds a store that actually has them in stock (instead of telling us, “It come this week, promise I do”), let me know and I’ll get to work 🙂

PS. Know what else is kinda cool? That screen shot is from the actual phone. Its cool that the phone can goto a flash intensive site like speedtest.net and run it perfectly like a computer.  Try that on your iPhone browser…

THANKS JOSH!

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  • SNkrHD88

    one of my co-workers mentioned that they are selling them already in the NYC nokia store, I have to double check that information, but I rather wait till tmo releases them im sure they will atleass $200 cheaper compared to the price nokia is selling it for.

    • Hello SNkrHD88,.

      In the NYC Nokia Store? Don’t make me fly there.
      Too be honest I personally wouldn’t wait since there won’t be much of a price difference and by the time T-Mobile gets it, there will be a new phone out lol. Go read the long as comment I wrote under the N900 coming to TMobile US post.

  • Neo

    I believe he is talking about this post on HOFO:

    http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1578860

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  • Neo and SNkrHD88,

    I saw the post, and he clearly says a “trial unit” so that explains why that guy has one.

    And I just called the NYC Store, “We do not know when the N900 will be released, probably within the next month”. So no N900 in their store…

  • Neo

    Actually, they do have a N900 demo unit at the store. ScottishSkyedance over at HoFo posted pictures of a demo unit at the store.

    http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/88/l_e3471add055948d18b7c3a140a8e1f4d.jpg

    http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/61/l_0108b7398d51466eb42894535a954317.jpg

    This is a demo unit though. Designated by not having “N900” on the front of the display. So it’s not being sold there, but there is a demo unit to play with at the NYC store.

  • Geniusdog254

    Actually, while that is FAST, I have seen speeds almost equal to that in St Louis, MO on AT&T. On my plain ole iPhone 3G I can easily hit 1500 kbps on a slow day and on a good day I can hit 2000 tops. Also, EvDo has traditionally lower speeds than WCDMA (GSM 3G), so don’t bash it for that lol.

  • james

    maybe speeds are so high because tmobile 3g is not in the masses yet? just a thought. if any company is testing there 3g with nobody really on it of course you will get blazing speeds. i want to see this again when 3g really matters for Tmobile

  • thatcher

    I ran that test on my G1 SUUUUUUCKED in ny. and it said i was in kansas

  • jhay

    lol buying it @ nokia store you get all the full power of the n900. in t-mobile they will definitely take away a lot of features like flash player and for n900 as a modem,

  • mark333

    well, i have no iPhone … i have HTC HERO in my hands, and tried that site speedtest.net ….

    and you know what ? … IT WORKS 🙂 … not so fast as on desktop computer, but FLASH is flashing better than i expected 🙂

  • mark333

    and in addition, FLASH on htc hero is antialiased, nokia (it looks like) isnt

  • onizzy

    Ok, so i have my N900 for 4 days now, and i’m getting 2.24 mbps or so dl, and uploads of just over 1 mbps. I’m impressed because i live 40 minutes from nyc, and at home i have verizon dsl. My home plan is 3 mbps download and 756 kbps upload. At home speed test on my laptop is always 2.86 mbps d/l and 724 kbps upload.

    I have a prepaid plan with tmobile usa with unlimited data. With the N900 i didn’t have to change my plan, and getting those speeds. Loving my N900 🙂