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Originally Posted by Yata
Apparently the change in strategy is because a lot of the CDMA carriers in the developing world (Brazil, India, etc.) are migrating to GSM. Therefore it no longer makes economic sense for Nokia to develop and manufacture CDMA devices.
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I understand the argument, and that GSM has much larger marketshare, but CDMA's dominance in North America and east Asia would imply that Nokia is writing off several potentially lucrative markets, whereas Windows Mobile is doing
both. Maybe I'm just pointing out Symbian's lax attitude towards CDMA, moreso than Nokia handsets itself.
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I know it's wishful thinking but wouldn't it be great if there was just a single cellular standard? 
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Of course, you're saying this while writing from Tokyo, where
none of our phones really work. :P I do think the lack of a standard helped propel CDMA forward. Years ago, when Qualcomm first built CDMA, people thought it would never take off. The fact it has may (or may not... who knows) have been a factor in the GSM consortium's switch.
--janak