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China prepares for the Nokia 6316, Nokia 3806 and Nokia 1506

Three new CDMA-based Nokia handsets will be coming to China by early 2010:  Nokia 6316, Nokia 3806 and Nokia 1506.  These three devices demonstrate Nokia’s commitment to CDMA as a major standard.  The Nokia 1506 is expected to become available in China at the end of 2009, while the Nokia 6316s and the Nokia 3806 [...]

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How To Activate Any CDMA phone on Verizon Wireless

Remember a while back when Verizon, Alltel, MetroPCS and Sprint said that they would start allowing you to bring over a non-carrier CDMA device to their network?  Well it looks like Verizon has actually made good on their promise, unfortunately it will take a minimum of 3 weeks.  A forum member over at xda-developers has [...]

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BlackBerry Tour is now official, CDMA users in North America rejoice

Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today introduced the BlackBerry® Tour™ – a powerful new 3G BlackBerry® smartphone for CDMA customers in North America. The new BlackBerry Tour smartphone offers state-of-the-art communications and multimedia capabilities with outstanding mobile performance and consummate styling. It is a feature-packed and highly refined world phone that keeps [...]

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Sprint launching dual-mode CDMA/WiMax modem Dec 21st

Sprint Nextel has just announced plans to launch its first dual-mode modem that would work on both the high-speed WiMax network Clearwire Corp is building and on Sprint’s existing mobile network (EVDO).  This dual-mode CDMA/WiMax modem will be available for $149.99 after $50 Mail-in Rebate on 2-year service agreements, but at the moment Sprint WiMax is [...]

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Sprint launching dual-mode CDMA/WiMax modem in 2008

According to Sprint, commercial availability of Sprint’s dual-mode CDMA/WiMax modems will occur by year’s end.  The fine print with this launch is that it will be released in Baltimore where Sprint also launched its WiMax service thanks to a partnership with Clearwire.  At the moment Sprint holds control of 51 percent of the Clearwire venture [...]

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HTC Touch Diamond GSM vs HTC Touch Diamond CDMA

For the Windows Mobile world the HTC Touch Diamond is a godsend.  It packs a superior resolution screen, a smooth TouchFLO 3D interface and just about every feature in the book to trump the iPhone 3G.  As a followup to the original HTC Touch, the Touch Diamond is has already shipped over 2 million units [...]

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ABI Research shows CDMA subscribers growing despite UMTS/HSPA hype

Although the overall dynamics of CDMA markets are overshadowed by the hype around UMTS/HSPA and the migration to LTE, CDMA operators continue to upgrade their networks to provide capacity for higher numbers of bandwidth-intensive data services, as well as escalating traffic load.
“Worldwide EVDO Rev A subscriber numbers ramped up more than eightfold between Q2 2007 [...]

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Sprints HTC Touch Diamond (Victor) in Red CDMA flavor

While it is no mystery that Sprint plans on releasing the HTC Touch Diamond with slightly rounded edges similar to the HTC Victor (Taiwanese release of HTC Touch Diamond), the big shocker today is the mystery color: red.  In surprising post over at Sprintusers a forum member decided to release three pictures of the CDMA [...]

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Palm sells 2 million Centros

The expectation that Palm would sell 2 million Centros in 2008 was a reasonable assumption with the $99 price point and availability in more than 25 countries.  Unfortunately the world has grown tired of an aging Palm OS and eventually the financial struggles of Palm will return to the forefront of the media.  The good [...]

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Nokia 8208 two-way slider and Nokia 3608 break cover

Two device leaks come out of the Nokia camp today through inadvertent product pages.  It is hard to feel bad for a manufacturer when they leave the details on their website and this is exactly the case for the dual sliding Nokia 8208 and Nokia 3608.  The Nokia 3608 is a simple flip phone with a 1.3 [...]