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I guess it's not CMDA (Verizon) compatible. It sure looks nice otherwise, AND it has an FM radio. I hate that most new models have dropped that. EDIT: Reform
by jimktrains2 13y ago
I guess it's not CMDA (Verizon) compatible.
It sure looks nice otherwise, AND it has an FM radio. I hate that most new models have dropped that.
EDIT: Reformatting
- josteink 13y agoYou have that backwards. It's Verizon which has decided explicitly not to be compatible with phones which works everywhere else in the world. It's like an ISP which decides that it doesn't want to use TCP/IP, but instead goes off and makes their own network-protocol, which requires its own custom OS preloaded on customer-computers. You can hardly blame phone-vendors for not being on that ship. It's much more profitable to make one model which works everywhere.
- CrazedGeek 13y agoI think he was talking about the FM radio.
- jimktrains2 13y agoAs someone else pointed out, I was talking about an FM radio. Also, you do realize that CDMA is much older than VZW and wasn't created just to create incompatibilities?
- lnanek2 13y agoLTE is GSM based, so it isn't like they were able to keep it up at least, heh.
- sudomal 13y agoI suspect the FM radio has been added to help them to convert feature phone users. It's the sort of feature that's highly prized in countries outside of North America.
- altero 13y ago>highly prized in countries outside of North America not in some european countries, FM radio means you have to pay ~20 euro/year per device for radio receiving license in some countries. Stupid, but it means this phone is useless for us as a corporate phone.
- MichaelGG 13y agoCertainly they could disable the feature in firmware if it was a real inhibitor in their target market.