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Re: Not GSM, not open said by Hamranhansen :
There is absolutely no way for Verizon to be open when they have a proprietary network, not a GSM network. 99% of the world's phones are GSM. If I can't order Verizon service for my GSM phone, that is definitively not open. The reason it is such a big deal for Android devices to come to Verizon is the devices had to be specially customized with proprietary Verizon hardware just to be able to attach to their proprietary network.
If Starbucks had its own kind of proprietary wireless Internet access instead of Wi-Fi, that is how Verizon is set up. Watching these self-styled champions of open networking push Verizon shows how desperate they are. Android is being dramatically outsold by iPod touch.
????? There are plenty of countries where GSM doesn't exist. Japan is almost all CDMA for example. The thing is I can buy any CMDA phone I want and get Verizon to activate it on their network with my account.
The CDMA Android will also work with Sprint and other global CDMA providers. Verizon is not the only ones using CDMA.
From experience traveling globally, GSM while allowing for easy roaming offers worst voice quality, I'd take Skype on a 56k modem before I like GSM.
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