Nokia could use Palm get better leverage here in the US. But seeing as they seem to be low balling Palm, I guess they aren't really serious about it.
Palm's future doesn't look to bright....
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japhyMar 20, 2007, 10:19 AM
I agree about Palm having a dark tunnel ahead, but I don't know about Nokia not being serious. It would be a great business move for them, and a great way to get a good price is to pretend to be apathetic about the buy. They really don't need Palm, but it would be a huge gain for Nokia if they bought them.
Moto, on the other hand, won't be able to pull it off. They're just not in the financial state to be that agressive. I don't know anything about those other investment groups, but if they know anything about the industry, they'll realize the Palm needs a lot of help - the kind that only a much larger company could give them.
Hooray for Nokia!
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If Nokia buys them, say goodbye to CDMA Treos.
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japhyMar 20, 2007, 11:11 AM
Not necessarily - this could be a great opportunity for Nokia to expand it's CDMA offerings. True, they could just kill the Palm brand completely, but that wouldn't make much sense, not if they wanted more market share.
I'd be looking forward to a Treo running Symbian or Maemo - that would be awesome!
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Nokia pulled the plug on CDMA last year...
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Agreed, Nokia buyout means RIP CDMA.
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I know Nokia is out of the cdma business, outside of allowing Pantech to use their name. Alot of this has to do with qualcomm and their stranglehold on the cdma side. But, right now Nokia is suing Qualcomm over cdma tech saying it's patent is past due. If they win, this could change Nokia's thinking.
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nope... bye bye cdma and good riddance.... 😈
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It's time the U.S. moved completely to a standard the rest of the WORLD uses, instead of these little proprietary standards that limit our phone choices.
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GSM is an older and slower technology. Just because most of the world (not all) uses it, is no reason to sing its praises. I for one never plan on going to that cesspool, better know as Europe, any time soon, so I couldn't care less what they use. Nokia is too cheap to pay Quaalcom's licensing fees, that and Euro snobbery for anything USA is why they stopped making CDMA.
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wCDMA, or wideband CDMA, which Cingular is aggressively rolling out, is touted to be the fasted and most efficient practical solution to cellular. Some varities include UMTS, HSDPA, and HSUPA.
A move to standard technology, by the US, could be good. GSM doesn't have to be the adopted technology, but WCDMA could be a good standardization. If that were to happen, I bet coverage would improve.
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GSM: It's like kilometers for cell phones!
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