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| CDMA works in more than just US .. CDMA works in US, Mexico, Canada, Bahamas, India, Japan, etc ... even on cruise ships around the world, so it's not all that odd.
It's not that hard to have a universal CDMA/GSM chip, I don't know why they didn't do this instead of having 2 versions. |
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 jmn1207Premium
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Ashburn, VA | said by cruz :
It's not that hard to have a universal CDMA/GSM chip, I don't know why they didn't do this instead of having 2 versions.
Not difficult to have, but they probably saved a good chunk of money going with an exclusive chip. Although, I have a "World Edition" BlackBerry now, and it does not seem to be any more expensive than my CDMA-only BlackBerry that I had before. |
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 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to cruz
Because of the volume...
GSM (including UMTS/HSPA) account for 4 billion globally, while CDMA 2000 (1x/evdo) account for ~500 million. |
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| said by en102:Because of the volume... GSM (including UMTS/HSPA) account for 4 billion globally, while CDMA 2000 (1x/evdo) account for ~500 million. What does that matter to me? I travel outside of the US maybe once every 5 years. |
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