CTIA 2005

Intro Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Wrap-Ups Discuss

by Rich Brome and Eric Lin
March 15, 2005

It's that time of year again - time for the big CTIA show. CTIA Wireless is the event of the year for the North American cell phone industry. Every spring around this time, absolutely every company that does anything remotely related to cell phones makes the annual pilgrimage to hawk their wares to the rest of the industry.

The size of the show is intimidating. The number of companies in this industry is more than you might think. This year the lucky host city is the Big Easy, New Orleans. The show completely fills the massive 3/4-mile-long convention center.

For the third year in a row, Phone Scoop was on the scene, reporting live from the show floor. This year we had a two-man team - Rich Brome and Eric Lin, enabling us to bring you more and better coverage than ever before.

The big phone news this year was from LG, Samsung, Kyocera, Nokia, and Motorola. There's also the launch of a whole new carrier - Amp'd, which is pretty exciting.

This article was expanded and updated through March 21st, so if you only saw the first few parts, check out the final sections to see what you missed!

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