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Re: CDMA is proprietary and has no future. Not worth the effort. said by jfmezei:Finally, while this may not have been overly obvious a few years ago, it is now obvious that CDMA is at the end of the road and has become a dead-end. Sprint and Verizon will not be able to evolve to a 4G version of CDMA, they will need to move to the world standard "GSM" for 4G. Not necessarily true. Verizon has stated that they will continue to use their CDMA/1xRTT network for voice as far out as 2020.
»www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/05/···-page-2/
There's no reason to believe that Sprint won't adhere to a similar timetable. If Apple wants it, there is a viable market for a CDMA iPhone for the foreseeable future. Additionally, just this month, there have been upgrades released for the CDMA2000 specification to increase efficiency. It is now up to the carriers to decide whether they want to employ these upgrades to their existing networks or not. »www.cdg.org/news/press/2009/Aug17_09.asp
So it would be far easier to develop a GSM handset prototype than a CDMA one. Easier perhaps, but it's certainly not inconceivable for Apple to make a CDMA version of the iPhone. Handset manufacturers such as Samsung, LG, HTC, Motorola, RIM, etc. do good business producing both GSM and CDMA phones. There is no reason why Apple can't as well. | |
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| Verizon/Sprint are already deprived of many world phones because the selection of CDMA phones is being reduced. In Canada, Bell/Telus are alreaduy installing GSM/HSPDA overlays because they know CDMA is dead.
Vodephone, part owner of Verizon Wireless has stated it would want Verizon to move to world standard so Verizon can benefit from its ownership and have its customers roam on Verizon when they travel to the USA.
re: value of OEM phones. OEM/unloackled phones are extremely valuable when you travel to get local service instead of having to pay outrageous roaming fees. Can't do that with a locked phone and you have to pay your home network's outrageous roaming fees. non-OEM phones often havce fdeatures disabled, menus changed etc. (not the case for iphone though). | | |
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