Tuesday, June 7, 2011

HTC Sensation hits FCC with AT&T 3G

HTC Sensation was recently announced by HTC in April, which is their new flagship device and also first ever dual-core device too. It’s already available in UK and T-Mobile will be launching it next week on June 15th. It looks like T-Mobile is not the only one who is going to offer this device in USA, because HTC Sensation just passed FCC once again, but this time with different radio bands. The model number of T-Mobile variant is PG58100 and this one is passed as PG58110. It actually features 850 MHz and 1900 MHz radio frequencies, and these are actually AT&T 3G frequencies.


It seems that HTC Sensation is headed to AT&T but there is no confirmation about it at the moment. It’s also possible that it’s hitting Canadian mobile carriers, because they have the same radio frequencies. So nothing is confirmed at the moment, but there is a possibility that major Canadian carriers like Rogers or Bell will be launching it. Anyway, let’s wait for some official words.

It's the FCC label for an HTC phone slugged PG58110. And as you should all know by now -- there will be a test later -- that appears to be a variant of the PG58100, otherwise known as the HTC Sensation on T-Mobile. So what's new in this PG58110 version? Oh, just radios that work on the 850MHz and 1900MHz frequencies.

So for those of us in the states, we immediate start to think "It's coming to AT&T!" Maybe. The 850MHz and 1900MHz frequencies indeed are what AT&T uses for 3G. But we really have no indication for it hitting AT&T just yet. The other (and very likely possibility) is that the Sensation will soon be headed to a Canadian carrier that uses the same freqs. But that leaves the door open for some not-so-cheap imports