Let's get one thing straight... US Cellular did not give up on Nokia. Nokia decided to shift it's focus towards producing phones geared towards GSM networks.

The portion about having 2 phones fail testing is true; however, they were both entry level phones and US Cellular didn't lose much by not adding them to their lineup.

Open dialogue still exists with Nokia and US Cellular. Hopefully (and hopefully soon), this will lead to Nokia being added back to the lineup.

According to a recent C Call I was on, Nokia is not interested in dealing with US Cellular at this time do to the small size of the company. This is also true of Apple regarding the iPhone. US Cellular has approached both. Sorry for that news.

The reason nokia does not make cdna phones anymore is because they were sued by quallcom for using their chipset without permision. You are correct that we have tested nokia's since but the nokia's tested were outsourced through Pantech and failed testing horribly. It is true that we have been trying to get nokia back for years however the size of our company is not why we have not carried the pantech models, they just didn't pass testing. In the next coming years all the providers in europe and america will be switching to LTE (4g) and with this you will probably see the return of nokia.

Once all the carriers switch from cdma and gsm to LTE in late 2011 to 2012 you will see nokia return to norht america they won't be able to continue relying on just their gsm when 70 million potential customers can't purchase their equipment.

So basically Qualcomm made some crappy, sub-par chipsets that they wanted to force everyone to buy (chipsets that got terrible reception)....Nokia fixed all the "issues" Qualcomm had with their sub-par engineering and Qualcomm sued Nokia as a result. I think if I was Qualcomm I wouldn't have said anything out of embarrassment that some other company had to fix my low quality, 3rd rate crap that they produced!

ORLY?

Those CDMA chipsets are used in ALL handsets. And vendors like Motorola at least seem to do fine for reception without illegally tampering with their design.

And if I understand correctly, the design changes that Nokia implemented allowed their phones favored access to the towers. At the expense of other handset designs. So if that's true, a group of NOKIA owners using the same tower could negatively impact network performance for others (in terms of capacity and coverage).

I know these chipsets are used in all CDMA phones as part of their proprietary design. There are different levels of quality of chipsets offered by Quallcomm. Motorola maybe buying higher grades of chipsets. Kyoceras and most Samsungs use the lowest grade. The whole chipset requirement is the problem with CDMA. It is controlled by Quallcomm through their licenses or by direct selling to manufacturers. So Quallcomm had a bad design, Nokia improved it and was sued as a result.

theres a difference in improving something and out right piracy. Nokia didn't just improve it they almost completely reversed it and then made changes to it. which under patent law you can't do. bost about them all you want but they weren't out to make something better because then they would have went to quallcom with it. they were just out to get a leg up on every other phone.

you can most definetly make changes to existing products. you'll just get sued under patent law. case in point nokia being retarded and basing their chipset off of qualcom rather then just making a new one.