puckhead193
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i'm pretty sure, CDMA is verizon (prettysure), but i have no clue what the W means..World 😕JesterJJZ said:
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Motorola's iTunes Phone - This Week?
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JesterJJZ said:
I assume Verizon is a US mobile company, but can you explain why it is different to others? Thanks!
ASP272
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The beautiful thing about this deal with Motorola is that they are in some sort of payment agreement with Apple I am sure to license the music store software on their phones. Regardless of whether or not the phones are a success, Apple gets paid in the meantime. Unless of course it's a partnership of mutual benefit, which I doubt. I do agree with others though, it would be cool on the RAZR because of it's sleek design - it's Apple worthy for that.
WCDMA is a new high bandwidth technology that is based off of GSM. So basically WCDMA does not work with verizon.
puckhead193
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Philsy said:
I'm not a 100% sure but I think so. I did enough research to find that it is not compatible w/ CDMA and that verizon has chosen to go with EV-DO instead of WCDMA. Which sucks bc my luck this phone will be a 3G phone and I can't get it. Verizon is really starting to annoy me, with their selection of phones.
CDMA and TDMA are types of air interfaces
GSM, iDEN, and IS-136 are all TDMA technologies - but they aren't compatible with each other
Similarly, both W-CDMA and cdmaOne/CDMA2000 (CDMA2000 is completely compatible with cdmaOne, it's the 3G progression) are both CDMA technologies yet are incompatible with each other. CDMA2000 is owned by Qualcomm, and W-CDMA is a European standard intended as GSM's replacement (but it's not really "based on GSM"). Technically the two are very similar, but not enough so to be compatible with each other unfortunately.
On the plus side, since both are CDMA, it's much easier to design a chipset that works with both CDMA2000 and W-CDMA than it is one that works with CDMA2000 and GSM (since GSM is TDMA and CDMA2000 is CDMA)
Cingular is replacing GSM with W-CDMA in the long run. Who knows what T-Mobile is going to do.
GSM, iDEN, and IS-136 are all TDMA technologies - but they aren't compatible with each other
Similarly, both W-CDMA and cdmaOne/CDMA2000 (CDMA2000 is completely compatible with cdmaOne, it's the 3G progression) are both CDMA technologies yet are incompatible with each other. CDMA2000 is owned by Qualcomm, and W-CDMA is a European standard intended as GSM's replacement (but it's not really "based on GSM"). Technically the two are very similar, but not enough so to be compatible with each other unfortunately.
On the plus side, since both are CDMA, it's much easier to design a chipset that works with both CDMA2000 and W-CDMA than it is one that works with CDMA2000 and GSM (since GSM is TDMA and CDMA2000 is CDMA)
Cingular is replacing GSM with W-CDMA in the long run. Who knows what T-Mobile is going to do.
T-Mobile and Apple
I follow the wireless and PC industry like a hawk and have lately started to analyze the online music market. It is interesting to note that Apple is offering a joint promotion for iTunes with T-Mobile's hotspot service but for the first time involving .mac into the picture. Interestingly enough T-Mobile has started literally dumping its mobile phones (the sub $200 ones) shortly after CES. An apple-mot phone makes sense worldwide with the US market possibly lagging behind in adoption. Therefore I truly expect it to be a WCDMA/GSM based phone. I wonder if it was T-mobile that asked Motorola not to showcase the phone in fear that it would be left with excess inventory of other phones. 🙄
With a T-mobile deal Apple would have access to Deutche Telecom which is present in most countries where the iTunes music store exists.
Cheers
I follow the wireless and PC industry like a hawk and have lately started to analyze the online music market. It is interesting to note that Apple is offering a joint promotion for iTunes with T-Mobile's hotspot service but for the first time involving .mac into the picture. Interestingly enough T-Mobile has started literally dumping its mobile phones (the sub $200 ones) shortly after CES. An apple-mot phone makes sense worldwide with the US market possibly lagging behind in adoption. Therefore I truly expect it to be a WCDMA/GSM based phone. I wonder if it was T-mobile that asked Motorola not to showcase the phone in fear that it would be left with excess inventory of other phones. 🙄
With a T-mobile deal Apple would have access to Deutche Telecom which is present in most countries where the iTunes music store exists.
Cheers
