Thread: The Nokia N810 - WiMAX Edition
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2008-03-31 , 20:32
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#140
Originally Posted by johnkzin View Post
That's not _necessarily_ true. Until now, sure, you needed to convince the carriers to sell your CDMA device. But, if Verizon is going to be true to their word, then all Nokia has to do is get their devices certified, and then the customer can buy them without Verizon branding them. And hopefully this will lead to Sprint and the smaller CDMA carriers following suit (MetroPCS, Cricket, etc.).
The thing is, right now Nokia doesn't even really make any CDMA phones. (Any that have Nokia's logo on them are ODM units made by other manufacturers, or units that were designed at least a year and a half ago, as far as I know.) Their sole CDMA R&D center (in San Diego) laid off 1/3-1/2 of its employees about a year and a half ago and switched to working on GSM phones. So I'd be really shocked to see them put 1xEVDO into an internet table.