04-24-2004, 07:35 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Rumour: Sprint to Carry CU928 Pocket PC Phone Edition By Mid-2004
ThunderCK over at SmartAssets has some interesting news about the CU928:
"This unit it being sold in China but I asked my corporate Sprint Rep late Friday about this and he sent me a fax that had the specs of the unit and the information that Sprint would carry this PPCPE mid-year! The only spec that was in my fax and not above is the unit is 7.4 oz..."
If this is true, that's some great news - I wasn't expecting to ever see this device in North America...
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04-24-2004, 07:44 PM
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04-24-2004, 09:03 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jun 2002
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crazy, I will get it if under $500.
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04-24-2004, 10:11 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Dec 2003
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cool. Why cant nextel get anything cool?
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04-24-2004, 11:08 PM
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Editor Emeritus
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Originally Posted by ARNAGE2
Why cant nextel get anything cool?
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Because they use iDEN, which is least deployed of all the wireless standards. Manufacturers are going to go for the largest market segments first.
--janak
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04-25-2004, 02:42 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Nov 2002
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If so then they would have released it with GSM first 
TM
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04-25-2004, 09:16 PM
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Editor Emeritus
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Originally Posted by anthonymoody
If so then they would have released it with GSM first |
Not necessarily. CDMA, while having smaller adoption than GSM, is still large enough to be a profitable market. Additionally, 1xRTT provides bandwidth for richer services, which GSM/GPRS proper doesn't have -- you'd need EDGE or an equivalent wCDMA solution. And the 1xRTT market is larger than EDGE/wCDMA, for now.
--janak
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04-25-2004, 11:17 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Mar 2002
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Maybe Ill get to ditch this Palm OS Treo 600.....
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04-26-2004, 01:43 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
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CDG.org is a great site that offers information about CDMA.
CDMA adoption is also growing in places like Europe and South America. CDMA owns much of Asia.
By the time At&t roles out Edge, Verizon will have a faster network with 1x-EVDO and shortly thereafter Sprint will have a faster and better 1xEVDV network.
I have seen Janak say this and I must agree that CDMA is a better use of bandwith. Also is more cost effective. Seem like new markets are starting off with CDMA not GSM, like in South America.
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05-02-2004, 01:02 AM
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Editor Emeritus
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Originally Posted by ThunderCK
I have seen Janak say this and I must agree that CDMA is a better use of bandwith. Also is more cost effective. Seem like new markets are starting off with CDMA not GSM, like in South America.
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Well, CDMA will be de facto within the next 10 years. However, there will be two incompatible standards.  The one positive fact is that dual-CDMA chipsets (e.g., 1x and wCDMA) are now available, and hopefully we'll see phones developed on it.
--janak
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