I heard CDMA was a better network (quality & speed). But GSM is the most used protocol in the world. When the US rushed to rebuild Iraq part of it was to build CDMA cell towers, but Iraq told the US to 'stuffit' and went with GSM so that they could communicate with the surrounding countries.
I've always used GSM based phones, because there are more options. And I can't stand Verizon and their crippling function tactics on their phones (like they did with Bluetooth so you had to send pictures via SMS)
What's most frustrating is that the US is the toilet of cellphone technology. We barely have 3 megapixel cameras in our phones and in South Korea, they get tv reception 10megapixel and incredible high speed data transfers.
Here, we're happy when Apple goes from 2mp to 3mp on the iPhone (such a joke) Oh and the new iPhone 3GS can "do video" (something a jailbroken iPhone 3G could do a year ago)
Kirk
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Originally Posted by Merrymeeting
It may be more accurate to state that AT&T supports GSM, the worlds most widely used protocol, while Verizon continues to push their outdated, almost exclusively-US solution.
Standardization can't come soon enough to this market
(and no, I have no connection to any mobile vendor. Just a frustrated international business traveler who constantly has to live with the compromise between Verizon having the best domestic coverage while GSM is best while traveling elsewhere)
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