Motorola A840
Motorola to launch the first dual-band phone
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I know it's a long URL but looks like China will get the A840 first them VZW later in this year (article claims; "The new "world phone", which can be used on both the GSM and CDMA networks, will become available by the end of the third quarter, potentially helping China Unicom, the country's second largest mobile operator, to lure more customers to its slow-growing CDMA services."
The article also missed the fact that Samsung has released a CDMA/GSM for VZW Enterprise Customers already, so technically, Motorola is not first.
I know it's a long URL but looks like China will get the A840 first them VZW later in this year (article claims; "The new "world phone", which can be used on both the GSM and CDMA networks, will become available by the end of the third quarter, potentially helping China Unicom, the country's second largest mobile operator, to lure more customers to its slow-growing CDMA services."
The article also missed the fact that Samsung has released a CDMA/GSM for VZW Enterprise Customers already, so technically, Motorola is not first.
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Couple things:
1)China or some other asian country always gets the phones first
2)Am I mistaken, or didnt VZW just launch the first Dual-Band CDMA/GSM phone. And yes, its in the US. Avail for reg. customers in a few weeks, now its only offered to business customers
1)China or some other asian country always gets the phones first
2)Am I mistaken, or didnt VZW just launch the first Dual-Band CDMA/GSM phone. And yes, its in the US. Avail for reg. customers in a few weeks, now its only offered to business customers
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The Motorola will also include GPRS that the Samsung does not have. So the Mot will have a better "footprint".
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How many people you know that have not lost their phones or are in a job where they constantly need to be known where they are? Thats all that the GPRS will do for them. I am not argueing that the A840 may be better than the samsung, I am just saying that its not the first dual-band phone to be out, and for the US much less.
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Sorry I mixed up the GPRS with GPS, the GPRS is granted going to be with the A840, but I do not think that it will make to much of a difference in price structure or even the bother of downloading in GSM mode. Alone the phone will be used for simply calling out of Europe and Asia, and more than likely not downloading and text messaging. The GPRS is an advantage to have, but the clientel that will be using the phone will probably not need it. If they needed it, they would go and by a Palm Pilot with GSM/CDMA and get 3G technology for both modes. I think tungsten is in the process of making one like that.
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Possible but I would rather have a Palm/Pocket PC with Bluetooth and a bluetooth phone. That wasy if one goes down/lost/stolen, then I have a backup. All-in-one is handy but not smart (my opnion and everyone has one) some may opt for everything in one unit. Not me at this time.
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Agreed, but that is why we have cradles for our palms to sync with our computer and back it all up. If you do that like you should, one would not need a bluetooth phone, only the bluetooth palm pilot. But many of us are not that inteligent to do so. They are the ones who curse for 3 days when they lose it when the ones who back it up curse for a couple of hours becuase of the money layout, not the lost information.
I have a Clie with a bluetooth module on the top with a GPS card. I use it as a phone with bluetooth and I sync all the info on it to my laptop every night. If you do that, then you only need one.
I have a Clie with a bluetooth module on the top with a GPS card. I use it as a phone with bluetooth and I sync all the info on it to my laptop every night. If you do that, then you only need one.
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