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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
"I want to address one thing about the cellphone inside a NIT. We all agree that it would be bad because telco companies might place restrictions"

No big deal, but we don't all agree on that.
Yeah, I've got to say, I appreciate the concerns regarding telco restrictions and additional FCC hoops to jump through, but honestly, I don't know that I'm completely sold on the telco restriction part. I mean, Nokia wouldn't have to sell it through a telco. The phone I have right now (e51) wasn't available through my telco provider (ATT), but I was able to get it and it works very well (as in I have no problems what so ever) with my services. What's more, the phone is not a US phone (I purchased it over the interweb, it has some chinese charecters on the keys). So really, not including a GSM or CDMA radio is down to the additional FCC hoops. Personally, I'd like to see some kind of implementation of what has been suggested several times here(on this thread), namely a slot for a module, where the module would contain the radio. As in you can swap out a GSM or CDMA or whatever module/radio you what. This way you could have the radio modules be FCC certified seperately, and people who didn't want them didn't have to get them. I also though that SDIO would present an ideal vehicle for this, since there seem to be a fair number of people who would opt for additional storage (additional as in, in addition to the two full sized slots that we've all agreed should be included) in the place of the radio module, but I have no personal experience with SDIO, and the people who do have the experience seem to have had a poor experience. Anyways....I think having access to an uninterrupted data stream would be a good thing and WiFi is not ubiquitous, and WiMax...welll, let's just say that maybe Nokia should hedge it's bets.