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Harald Welte laforge at gnumonks.orgOn Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 10:09:42AM +0100, Sylvain Munaut wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Given that the filters (including the 850/900) are all unbalanced-to-balanced
> > filters, I doubt that somebody would simply not place them (as you cannot
> > replace them just with a 0ohms resistor or soemthing. By removing one filter
> > you would not be able to produce a standard 850/1800/1900 or 950/1800/1900
> > configuration but something like 850/900/1800 or 850/900/1900 which doesn't
> > maeke sense.
>
> Have you noticed that the capacitors on the 850 path are marked as N/C ?
no. ouch.
> I don't see why they wouldn't have put them tough ... it's not like it
> changes the price much.
probably a 'marketing requirement'... "we don't want to sell a quadband phone
for the same price like a tri-band phone"
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