Motorola Continues Building RAZR Brand
CDMA Phones are boring
GSM phones are a lot more interesting as are cdma phones in Japan and korea.
viper said:
I hope RAZR can bring some life to the otherwise boring/stale US CDMA phone market.
GSM phones are a lot more interesting as are cdma phones in Japan and korea.
Inherently so. To the point that I often find myself perusing GSM pages like GSMarena.com and celluloco.com just imagining what it would be like to own a phone that sparks my interest. It's definitely wearing thin. T-minus 5 months till my contract's up.
have you seen some of kddi's phones? the W31s, penck and talby have all gotten lots of english coverage. each one is a sight to behold and PACKED with features.
korean phones aren't quite as beautiful, in general, but some sure are nice and they experiment with every possible form factor and feature set.
why then, do us carriers tend to stick to silver clamshells? i'm sure they've done huge amounts of market research to determine that's what most americans want. still, i wish we could get jus...
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They (CDMA carriers) have done research thought it's says US customer want FREE (or really really cheap) phones 😢 😢 😢
viper said:
I guess i am not the only one who is baffled by the current state of US cdma phones. I guess this boils down to Sprint and Verizon. They need someone who'll choose more attractive phones or just repackage the korean/japanese phones with a new RF front end. I'd be happy with that.
I don't think it's a matter of hiring someone to negotiate more desirable handsets for Verizon (Sprint's lineup is just fine). I think it's a matter of getting Verizon to convince CDMA manufacturers to develop higher end handsets for the American market...something these manufacturers aren't prepared to do. Americans want cheap (or free) handsets, and the cost of developing high end CDMA phones is just to costly (and w...
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