Rumour: Sprint to Carry CU928 Pocket PC Phone Edition By Mid-2004

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://smartassets.sfc8.com/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl/Blah.pl?,v=display,b=news,m=1082815855' target='_blank'>http://smartassets.sfc8.com/cgi-bin...ws,m=1082815855</a><br /><br /></div>ThunderCK over at SmartAssets has some interesting news about the CU928:<br /><br />"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..."<br /><br />If this is true, that's some great news - I wasn't expecting to ever see this device in North America...

[thunderck]

Sorry Jason check that 210 grams is 7.4 oz

The weight is listed in grams: http://www.daxiantelecom.com/english/product/product.asp?id=23

I updated the Assets site it now reads 7.4 not 9.89. :oops:

[huangzhinong]

crazy, I will get it if under $500.

[arnage2]

cool. Why cant nextel get anything cool?

[Janak Parekh]

Why cant nextel get anything cool?
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

[anthonymoody]

If so then they would have released it with GSM first :)

TM

[Janak Parekh]

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

[Cipr0]

Maybe Ill get to ditch this Palm OS Treo 600.....

[thunderck]

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.

[Janak Parekh]

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.
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

[dazz]

Just wanted everyone to know there is an updated link to this story:

http://smartmobileassets.com/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?,b=news,v=display,m=1082815855

Thanks.