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Cellular Phone Forum / Country Specific / Australian Group / March 2004Dual Mode GSM/CDMA handset
How hard can it be? Not hard at all, but how big would the market be? If it's only Australia it probably won't happen. 73 de Simon, VK3XEM. > How hard can it be? >Not hard at all, but how big would the market be? Very hard though currently being trialled in China. >> Not hard at all, but how big would the market be? > Very hard Completely clueless. Typical cow. > though currently being trialled in China. > >Not hard at all, but how big would the market be? > > Very hard though currently being trialled in China. Not hard at all - there has been an integrated chipset available for this for a while : http://www.cdmatech.com/solutions/products/msm6550_chipset_solution.jsp As to the market - who knows. OK but how difficult would it be to actually integrate it into a design?. Could you do it?. > > >Not hard at all, but how big would the market be? > > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > As to the market - who knows. > OK but how difficult would it be to actually integrate it into a design?. > Could you do it?. Its not that hard actually - qualcomm provide a stack of stuff to ease the job - and charge like a wounded bull for it WCDMA + GSM=g3... u wouldnt want cdma (except for coverage) a cdma/gsm will never happen (EVER) as only telstra (and optus through licencing agrement) can use both (coverage and billing) but in relaity only telstra ever could, and they wont. ever.. T have ug to x1cdma, gsm have edge to upgrade to but in relaity wcdma+gsm is the future for g3 and dual mode handsets. its supported and being trieled and accepted world wide. u can compain but wont make an aounce of difference. these are the facts, just accept them without question and move on... Now g4 thats another question. > How hard can it be? Third generation (3G) mobile phone systems meet the fast & wide-band data standards set by the ITU (International Telecommunications Union). The two major implementations are UTMS (also called W-CDMA & used mainly as an upgrade for GSM systems) and CDMA2000 1xEV-DO (used as an upgrade for CDMA systems). It is generally thought UTMS will dominate but CDMA2000 may take off in the US & provide a continuing divergence. Telstra will probably have it both ways here. Maybe new electronics will allow for multiple simultaneous signals sometime soon & we can all have every standard. > WCDMA + GSM=g3... u wouldnt want cdma (except for coverage) > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > > How hard can it be? One thought that the best of both worlds as far as coverage might be a selling point, and considering that all the base station hardware is there already. Some Telcos are a bit slow to realise that poofy video phones and data crap is still such a small market segment. Voice calls and coverage are what consumers want most. One only needs to look at "3" to see what a mistake it is to leap ahead with technology when consumers don't want it! > WCDMA + GSM=g3... u wouldnt want cdma (except for coverage) > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > > How hard can it be? > One thought that the best of both worlds as far > as coverage might be a selling point, and considering > that all the base station hardware is there already. > Some Telcos are a bit slow to realise that poofy video > phones and data crap is still such a small market segment. > Voice calls and coverage are what consumers want most. Voice calls and SMS, yes. Coverage, nope, not most consumers now that the coverage is perfectly adequate for most now. There arent all that many that want or need the purported extra coverage that a handset that can do GSM and CDMA could provide. There are a few, but its a surprisingly small market now in this country. Mainly those who spend quite a bit of time where CDMA coverage is better than GSM and in the capital citys where in building CDMA coverage isnt as good as with GSM. > One only needs to look at "3" to see what a mistake it is to > leap ahead with technology when consumers don't want it! Sure, but thats not really relevant to the question of whether there is much of a market for a dual GSM/CDMA handset now. > > WCDMA + GSM=g3... u wouldnt want cdma (except for coverage) > > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > > > > How hard can it be? > WCDMA + GSM=g3... u wouldnt want cdma (except for coverage) > > a cdma/gsm will never happen (EVER) as only telstra (and optus through > licencing agrement) can use both (coverage and billing) but in relaity only > telstra ever could, and they wont. ever.. You dont need to have the same company operatng the GSM and CDMA net Same concept as a dual SIM attachment |
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