The end of CDMA with Nokia?
Please forgive me but I've had some other emergency-type things to deal with over the last couple of weeks, so if this is old news, I apologize.
I just learned recently that Nokia's participation in CDMA technology is going the way of the dinosaur due to its failed pairing with another manufacturer (Samsung, was it?) I kind of thought with the release of the Nokia 6256i, this was the start of a good thing. Apparently not good enough, however.
I'd love to hear the direct and indirect people weigh in on this. One of Nokia's big plusses is the user-friendly interface for folks who are technophobes, or at least, somewhat intimidated by technology. It sounds like the plan is a done deal, but I'd still like some reaction to all of this.
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I just learned recently that Nokia's participation in CDMA technology is going the way of the dinosaur due to its failed pairing with another manufacturer (Samsung, was it?) I kind of thought with the release of the Nokia 6256i, this was the start of a good thing. Apparently not good enough, however.
I'd love to hear the direct and indirect people weigh in on this. One of Nokia's big plusses is the user-friendly interface for folks who are technophobes, or at least, somewhat intimidated by technology. It sounds like the plan is a done deal, but I'd still like some reaction to all of this.
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They have a new partnership to make CDMA phones with Pantech. They are one of the largest CDMA makers from South Korea. Pantech phones have done pretty well. We sold hundreds in my store at Christmas of the PN-215 and have had little to no problems to speak of. I can only think of less that 3 occasions that I've had to FRU one out since Christmas.
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Nokia was going to form a joint venture with Sanyo but decided not to make an more CDMA phones
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=97815 »
Instead they will sell rebranded Pantech, I understand that Pantech phones are nice but if you want a Nokia you won't get one for CDMA.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060622/bs_nm/nokia_cdma_dc »
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=97815 »
Instead they will sell rebranded Pantech, I understand that Pantech phones are nice but if you want a Nokia you won't get one for CDMA.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060622/bs_nm/nokia_cdma_dc »
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Doesn't really bother me at all except that I want the 6265, which probably still wouldn't have been able to get either way.
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sngwrtr525 said:
I just learned recently that Nokia's participation in CDMA technology is going the way of the dinosaur due to its failed pairing with another manufacturer (Samsung, was it?) I kind of thought with the release of the Nokia 6256i, this was the start of a good thing. Apparently not good enough, however.
The 6256i was a battle with Verizon. It had OBEX file transfer and so it was not allowed for sale in the corporate stores, only the retailers had it.
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Nokia's ending cdma phone manufacturing world wide except for the U.S. the company nokia was going to make cdma phones with was sanyo and the partnership with pantech was setup prior to pantech's purchase of ktft i believe it was.
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