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Hingham, MA | reply to gsmsux
Re: "heh yeah right" Hm, on GSM when the original iPhone was released, in America the 3G network wasn't very well deployed, and battery life was a bigger issue on WCDMA. If the iPhone had been on CDMA at that time, they probably would have EV-DO, since it doesn't really hurt battery life more than standalone 1xRTT does.
This is in part for technical reasons- CDMA2000 1xRTT/and EV-DO use CDMA, which uses more battery power than the TDMA used as part of 2G GSM, while 3G GSM also uses CDMA, over a wider frequency band than CDMA2000. (As you can tell, the acronyms are very confusing here)
Battery life is also the justification RIMM uses for keeping the GSM BlackBerry Curve 8900 2G-only, they've claimed that they place battery life as their second priority below device security. |
