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motorola new phones are all GSM!

linkfeeney

Jul 28, 2004, 9:05 AM
I think motorola and all other companies are like giving up on verizon and sprint cdma cause it's not worth it! When the world uses GSM and 3G. What's the point?! All the cool looking phones are GSM anyway! WORD!
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viper

Jul 28, 2004, 9:16 AM
I am a sprint pcs customer and saddly i have to agree that i've always preferred gsm phones and gsm phones keep looker better and better to me at least.

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.
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Rich Brome

Jul 28, 2004, 10:38 AM
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.
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linkfeeney

Jul 28, 2004, 10:05 PM
whoa... motorola has new 2 phones for verizon? HOLY COW! Motorola has like 50 GSM phones.
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moobak

Jul 31, 2004, 5:36 PM
They're smart, they know CDMA is a dead end technology. 🤣
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Rich Brome

Aug 1, 2004, 2:17 PM
Well, Motorola also has the V710, A840, v65p, and T300p on the way for Verizon.

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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