CDMA is being phased out: end of April in Australia, began a few years ago
in the US. Carriers are switching to GSM. Pack more subscribers on a cell,
even if they need more cells. GSM allowed Europe to unify their mobile
network before the US even realized that they had to do it for
I believe CDMA is a proprietary technology owned/licensed/patented by
Qualcom. If that is correct, you'd have to license to use the patent. Kind
of conflicts with the idea of an open phone. I guess no more so than some
of the GSM stuff... but hey.. who knows.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:02 AM,
I talk with friends and co-workers about OpenMoko and the Neo
Freerunner all the time. Inevitably, they say something like That's
cool. Will it work with Verizon? or That's cool. Will it work with
Sprint?. And of course, the answer is no... I don't think any of my
friends are with att (even
GSM is essentially an international standard. With some exceptions,
CDMA isn't used much.
Furthermore, even in the USA, Verizon will be deploying a GSM network
soon (next few years). So a Freerunner WILL work on Verizon in the
near future.
Don't count on a CDMA device, using a relatively closed
I don't see how GSM is much less closed of a network protocol than
CDMA (the interchangeable SIM cards being the big difference). The
GSM chip is the most locked down hardware on the Neo. A CDMA chip
would be no different.
As far as the aims of the Openmoko project, I don't see how CDMA
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Steven **
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I don't see how GSM is much less closed of a network protocol than
CDMA (the interchangeable SIM cards being the big difference).
Stop thinking in terms of the technology itself and think in terms of
a userbase. In the
Steven ** wrote:
I don't see how GSM is much less closed of a network protocol than
CDMA (the interchangeable SIM cards being the big difference). The
GSM chip is the most locked down hardware on the Neo. A CDMA chip
would be no different.
Actually the situation here IS very different,
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