jfmezeiPremium
join:2007-01-03
Pointe-Claire, QC
kudos:22 Reviews:
 ·ELECTRONICBOX
| CDMA is royalty proprietary. Apple would not be paying for Qualcomm proprietary CDMA code embedded in all iphones around the world. That would be HUGE waste of money.
So rumours of someone finding CDMA code in IOS4 should be taken with a HUGE grain of salt.
Note that since GSM 3g uses cdma (lowercase) air interface, it is quite possible that people have found cdma (lowercase) code in the phone. or even some proprietary cdma code from Qualcom. But it doesn't mean it is CDMA code. When Qualcom realise that its CDMA was a dead end, it started to sell stuff for GSM 3g (which uses cdma air interface similar to but not the samne as its CDMA protocol). |
amungusPremium
join:2004-11-26
America Reviews:
·AT&T DSL Service
| Perhaps the 5th gen, or 4.x gen, or whatever won't be sold worldwide???
True that newer 3g does have some relation to "CDMA" and this could simply be gearing up for newer data access...
To be fair, you picked the one beef I have w/CDMA - it's doggedly proprietary, and Qualcomm really has done some "interesting" things to get their way with things over the years (see article linked below). Such matters are definitely not in dispute! ...I am only a 'fan' of CDMA in so far as I loathed the experience I've had w/TDMA phones and subsequent GSM networks (GPRS/EDGE) - it simply seems to me that the alternative (CMDA) sucks much less, in my opinion, experiences... YMMV, etc.
Does the average person know wtf we're even debating, let alone care? Not really. The only measure is whether or not they get service where they use their phone, and how reliable it is.
I hope the rumors are true, but that this isn't another carrier contracted deal. Sad that we are at a FOURTH generation of a product, and it's still only on AT&T's network  ...I might've bought one, at least to try out, were it not for this.
Interesting read from 1996. »www.networkcomputing.com/706/706frezza.html
Here we are years later, and guess which tech has more subscribers in the U.S.A.??? ...CDMA... Been an ugly road. Yes, the rest of the world was sold on TDMA/GSM, but that is not my point...
Maybe carriers will someday agree to a standard that doesn't suck, doesn't cause headaches, interfere with radios (TDMA, I'm looking at you...), etc. and all carriers allow all handsets that pass some certification to operate on their networks... One can dream!
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yabos
join:2003-02-16
London, ON | reply to jfmezei
They didn't see any CDMA computer code, they saw a new device identifier when disassembling some of the code that reads iProd2,1. That is(assuming it's real) an Apple product code like iPhone2,1 or MacBookPro2,2
Wether or not this is a CDMA phone being tested is pure speculation. |
