Samsung SCH-A790 / SCH-A795 / IP-A790
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New Verizon cellphone to be usable worldwide
BY BRIAN BERGSTEIN
Associated Press
NEW YORK - Verizon Wireless plans to begin selling this spring a cellphone for use by subscribers around the world as well as in the United States.
The phone will have chips for two kinds of wireless network systems: the CDMA standard used by Verizon in America and the GSM standard used in most of the rest of the world.
In most places, the GSM calls will be carried by Vodafone PLC, the British cellphone company that owns 45 percent of Verizon Wireless.
The phone is scheduled to debut in April.
Verizon Wireless spokeswoman Brenda Boyd Raney declined to disclose price or the phone's manufacturers.
She did say the phone was designed for wo...
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BY BRIAN BERGSTEIN
Associated Press
NEW YORK - Verizon Wireless plans to begin selling this spring a cellphone for use by subscribers around the world as well as in the United States.
The phone will have chips for two kinds of wireless network systems: the CDMA standard used by Verizon in America and the GSM standard used in most of the rest of the world.
In most places, the GSM calls will be carried by Vodafone PLC, the British cellphone company that owns 45 percent of Verizon Wireless.
The phone is scheduled to debut in April.
Verizon Wireless spokeswoman Brenda Boyd Raney declined to disclose price or the phone's manufacturers.
She did say the phone was designed for wo...
(continues)
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