Motorola Unleashes New High-End Phones
motorola new phones are all GSM!
gsm is the bigger market. you spend tens of millions developing and marketing a phone for the market which will give you the best potential return. since GSM is so much larger than cdma many vendors go with gsm.
mot, nokia, and ericsson might be afraid to compete with the korean vendors as well, though mot and nokia both have new cdma phones coming out.
korean vendors pay pretty hefty licensing fees to GSM IPR holders (nokia, ericsson, motorola?). In CDMA all are equal and pay qualcomm roughly 5% give or take a few points.
linkfeeney said:
I think motorola and all other companies are like giving up on verizon and sprint cdma cause it's not worth it!
Not at all. This batch of announcements all happen to be GSM or WCDMA, but that's only because Motorola decided to use the recent BREW Developer's Conference to launch its newest CDMA phones - the V260 and V265. If it weren't for the BREW event, the V260 / V265 probably would have been announced this week with the rest of 'em.
Motorola is definitely not "giving up" on CDMA any time soon.
But ultimately, yes, they do (and will probably continue to) have more models for GSM than CDMA. You see the same thing with Nokia. Certainly GSM is a much larger market globally, so it's only natural that the # of models be proportional to that.
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