In article <1170945060.030783.68540@s48g2000cws.googlegroups. com>, carcarx wrote:
> Look who's speaking at a cdma2000 conference:
>
> http://www.cdg.org/news/press/2007/Feb06_07ma.asp
>
> Larry Paulson, Vice President, CDMA, Nokia
>
> This further diminishes the verity of the speculation that Nokia has
> "given up" on cdma2000.
I still would never, EVER buy another Nokia CDMA handset. Perhaps they
haven't given up, but they don't care enough about the market to not
produce crap.
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At 08 Feb 2007 15:33:38 +0000 Steven J. Sobol wrote:
> I still would never, EVER buy another Nokia CDMA handset. Perhaps they
> haven't given up, but they don't care enough about the market to not
> produce crap.
Sure they care- that's why they've farmed out production of their future
CDMA handsets to private OEMs!
At 08 Feb 2007 06:31:00 -0800 carcarx wrote:
> Look who's speaking at a cdma2000 conference:
>
> http://www.cdg.org/news/press/2007/Feb06_07ma.asp
>
> Larry Paulson, Vice President, CDMA, Nokia
>
> This further diminishes the verity of the speculation that Nokia has
> "given up" on cdma2000.
>
Maybe he'll take questions from the audience about why Nokia laid-off or
transferred most of their CDMA division emloyees... ;-)
On 2007-02-08, Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote:
> At 08 Feb 2007 15:33:38 +0000 Steven J. Sobol wrote:
>
>> I still would never, EVER buy another Nokia CDMA handset. Perhaps they
>> haven't given up, but they don't care enough about the market to not
>> produce crap.
>
> Sure they care- that's why they've farmed out production of their future
> CDMA handsets to private OEMs!
To be fair, Nokia's license to use Qualcomm's CDMA patents runs out
sometime this spring and I guess the terms for a new license with Qualcomm
were not to their liking (which shouldn't surprise anyone since Qualcomm
always thinks their patent portfolio is worth a lot of money when it
comes to their biggest competitors). I assume the primary attribute
of the OEMs they use now is that the latter have Qualcomm agreements that
don't expire soon.
That said, when Nokia built their own CDMA phones they did manage to
produce some incredible pieces of crap, so perhaps it is better this
way.
Nokia still interested in cdma2000
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