Verizon Wireless and new phones
What kills me are these "new phone" topcis. It's not that VZW doesn't want these new phones... Carriers tend to make them for GSM.
Carriers making more phone designs for GSM has NOTHING TO DO WITH SUPERIOR NETWORKS!! (shush Cain I can hear you breathing) There are just more available retailers to sell GSM since it is a free standard in the USA and in other countries.
The biggest reason that VZW doesn't have phones like the v3 RAZR and such is simply this.. Manufacturers have to design a phone and make the firmware (software) and the hardware. Now hardware is really easy to retool. What kills them is that CDMA technology is Qualcomm based. For a handset manufacturer they have to pay Qualcomm a fee to be able to use their chipsets. This ...
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Carriers making more phone designs for GSM has NOTHING TO DO WITH SUPERIOR NETWORKS!! (shush Cain I can hear you breathing) There are just more available retailers to sell GSM since it is a free standard in the USA and in other countries.
The biggest reason that VZW doesn't have phones like the v3 RAZR and such is simply this.. Manufacturers have to design a phone and make the firmware (software) and the hardware. Now hardware is really easy to retool. What kills them is that CDMA technology is Qualcomm based. For a handset manufacturer they have to pay Qualcomm a fee to be able to use their chipsets. This ...
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