Samsung Galaxy S III (CDMA)
Why no SIM card Sprint?
Most chipsets in most phones have some level of "support" for a hundred or more features that may not be implemented in that particular phone. There are also radio chips and antennas that need to be added; all kinds of extra parts and engineering that go into it.
It's not at all like Sprint could flip a switch or add one part to enable GSM. They didn't "cripple" or disable anything. There's much more involved. The Verizon version with GSM is a different, more complicated phone.
Rich Brome said:
There's a lot more than just the SIM card and chipset.
Most chipsets in most phones have some level of "support" for a hundred or more features that may not be implemented in that particular phone. There are also radio chips and antennas that need to be added; all kinds of extra parts and engineering that go into it.
It's not at all like Sprint could flip a switch or add one part to enable GSM. They didn't "cripple" or disable anything. There's much more involved. The Verizon version with GSM is a different, more complicated phone.
Okay given that the the Sprint version is less complicated why do they sell it for the same price is the other carriers including Verizon who has a more c...
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Not only that, but carriers price phones in a way that's only loosely related to what they actually cost to manufacture. Manufacturers strike special deals with volume discounts, future sales commitments, marketing incentives, and all sorts of crazy things that skew the market price wildly. Plus the carrier has their own motivations for promoting certain phones and pricing them differently. It's not at all uncommon for the more expensive phone to actually be priced less for the consumer.
My point was only that these are two different phones, developed for two differen...
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