From my perspective, which is admittedly a narrow one as cell phones
are not of significant interest to me, I think Apple made a good move in
this regard. GSM is more widely used around the world, and from my
experience the better of the technologies. I have never had, nor known
anyone who has had, any problems at all with GSM technology with
Cingular. Verizon on the other hand, I've had extremely bad experiences
with. The US, as with so many other things, will be dragged kicking and
screaming into a global standard, eventually.
Darcy Burnard wrote:
Hi. I know very little about cell phones, so I'm sure someone will
correct me if I'm wrong here, but as I understand it, the majority of
the world outside the US uses gsm cell phone networks. I don't believe
they use cdma anywhere else. Apple probably wants to sell the I Phone
all over the world and not just in the US.
Darcy
On 9-Jan-07, at 6:51 PM, Brent Harding wrote:
Yeah, but the majority of the US uses CDMA or TDMA. I think we have
some Cingular coverage, but I'm sure that it is mostly old AT&T TDMA
stuff from that era of their existence.
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because it's the best platform for the fit.
On Jan 9, 2007, at 5:15 PM, hank smith wrote:
not sure
its probably using
gsm as usual
why is that all the friggen talking phones that go all the way use gsm?
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Subject: New iPhone
So Jobs announced the new iPhone this morning. It apparently comes
running OSX, so presumably that includes VoiceOver. This is very
promising. The touch screen seems like it has potential to be
problematic, though hearing how it works even this might be doable
for blindees. What do you all think?
