CES 2006
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LG 3G phone for Cingular....
Anyone else notice that the sticker on the back says "Qualcom 3G CDMA"?
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shouldn't be a big surprise, Qualcom's all over WCDMA. aren't they being sued by nokia + ericsson - something about being bogus with patents? Then qualcom tried to B-slap nokia over something stupid and it seemed like they were just trying to get back at nokia. 🙄
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just more frivilous lawsuits. i know it's business, but this all seems a little childish
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That just means it has a Qualcomm chipset inside. It's a bit confusing that they call it "CDMA" and not "WCDMA", but nevertheless WCDMA as a CDMA-type technology is what that means, not CDMA as in EV-DO or anything like that...
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Me2Jan 5, 2006, 1:49 PM
mer.... so many confusing acronyms.... GSM, CDMA, WCDMA etc. I know what they all mean but now that GSM is sorta implementing a CDMA like network upgrade its going to confuse the hell outa people. Oh and how does that work by the way? Isn't GSM supposed to be like the open standard without all the licensing crap?
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