Anyone have a Nokia N900?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:56:57PM -0800, Brandon Sandrowicz wrote:
> As I understand it, CDMA is the superior tech, but GSM companies tend to
> be more open. You tend to hear a lot about vendor lock-in and purposely
> disabled phones with CDMA carriers (Verizon & Sprint in the US, Bell in
> Canada). [ Though people are railing against AT&T in the US and they are
> a GSM carrier. ]

Qualcomm owns piles of patents on CDMA.  No one else makes CDMA chips.
GSM seems to have been the rest of the cell industry joining together
to make something that qualcomm didn't have a monopoly on.

The sim card is another nice feature of GSM, that CDMA doesn't have.

Perhaps in terms of efficient use if the network, CDMA might be
technically better, but for the end user the lack of sim card and single
supplier of technology is just crap.  It doesn't matter how good it
might be technically.

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Len Sorensen
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