Brian, The reality is that CDMA is far more built-out in North America than GSM, both conventional and high-speed. Large-scale GSM has only been around for 2-3 years, whereas CDMA has been around for 10.
I want a phone that works great now, not 2012. Nat Sorry....Verizon made the silly mistake of not using GSM. <grin> At 10:35 2007-06-29, Nat Hager III wrote: >If they had a VZW broadband model I'd be standing in line this evening! > >Nat > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of Brian J White >Sent: Friday, 29 June 2007 13:26 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:38974] Re: iPhone > >At 10:11 2007-06-29, Nat Hager III wrote: > >If you watch the demonstrations this thing is innovative as the > >dickens, which in my mind goes hand in hand with metric. If you > >watch an old TNT movie - "Pirates of Silicon Valley" - it makes it > >clear that Jobs was always the radical experimenter while Gates was > >the shrewd businessman, and this is reflected in the novel iPhone interface vs. > >the standard Windows PC. > > > >So I would expect someone like Jobs to say 11 mm, without the weird > >inch conversions. > > > >Nat > > > >PS The only drawback is its locked to the AT&T/Cingular network > > >Why is that a drawback? The only other provider that can use it is >T-Mobile. I'm sure someone will figure out a simple way to unlock it >so you can use it with T-Mobile.
