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Class B Slider???
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Posted by: PLATiNuM2004kG

Is a Class B phone a refurbished one? Cause VM sent me a Class B Slider and I don't know what the difference is.

Posted by: ayahuasca

No.

Posted by: PLATiNuM2004kG

What does it mean then? I'm just curious...

Posted by: ayahuasca

It's probably a regulatory classification; I'd go try looking it up at either the FCC's site or that of the Korean cellphone regulating agency.
Whenever anything is "Class X", that's usually government nomenclature. It has little or nothing to do with the quality of anything.
For instance, Class A cigarettes just means that a thousand cigarettes weigh less than three pounds. Class B means more than three pounds. There is no difference in quality.

Posted by: PLATiNuM2004kG

Thanks!!

Posted by: ayahuasca

Okay, I got curious and looked it up. Here's the authoritative definition: there are three different GPRS classes A, B and C.
Class A handsets can do CS and PS in parallel (download something from the internet while on a CS call). Class B handsets can also do both, but one after the other (no WAP browsing while on a voice call, no voice call coming through while surfing the internet). And finally Class C devices, which are data devices only (such as the old (first) RIM Blackberry).
CS and PS mean circuit-switched and packet-switched, respectively. IE voice and data, respectively.

Posted by: braindead5400

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Originally posted by ayahuasca
Okay, I got curious and looked it up. Here's the authoritative definition: there are three different GPRS classes A, B and C.
Class A handsets can do CS and PS in parallel (download something from the internet while on a CS call). Class B handsets can also do both, but one after the other (no WAP browsing while on a voice call, no voice call coming through while surfing the internet). And finally Class C devices, which are data devices only (such as the old (first) RIM Blackberry).
CS and PS mean circuit-switched and packet-switched, respectively. IE voice and data, respectively.

back when I had nextel I could recieve calls while on the internet, i really miss that and on my vox I couldn't recieve calls but I could recieve voicemail indicators