The quoted battery life is a lengthy 8.5 hours talk time and 400 hours standby for the tri-band handset.
The cooperation will initially produce a tri-band GSM wireless Smart phone, expected to be available early in 2002.
However, "tri-band" (and "quad-band") phones have the capability of working on three (or four) different, yet specific, bands.
Rogers Wireless carries the TG800, a quad-band (850/900/1800/1900) variant to the tri-band (900/1800/1900) KG800 sold overseas.
The mobile broadband experience comes by way of the tri-band HSDPA (3G).
