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Where can I get a cdma phone? |
Fingers
Joined: Jan 29, 2002
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From: New Zealand
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What's the best CDMA phone available at the moment and where can I buy one? |
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Eamonn
Joined: Nov 30, 2001
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CDMA???
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arnoldc
Joined: Dec 14, 2001
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From: Philippines
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Fingers, motorola.com. although when i was in south korea i saw a nokia clamshell phone, that looks very much like the v. series of motorola. however, i believe in australia (and new zealand?) only allow a certain model of the motorola cmda startac. that model i have. a collector's item, still works like new. |
Fingers
Joined: Jan 29, 2002
Posts: 468
From: New Zealand
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Yeah CDMA, it's kinda like the old analogue system.
Thanks arnoldc, I'll check it out, I'm heading back to New Zealand soon and want to have a CDMA phone that's comparable to the T68i. All those available in NZ aren't quite there yet. Vodafone have a GSM network there but I'm just looking at the options. With the CDMAand TDMA network there you can get phones that are both analogue and digital, they swap depending on which signal is stronger. Too many mountains
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Eamonn
Joined: Nov 30, 2001
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Oh rite...
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gomichaelkgo
Joined: Nov 30, 2001
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From: Portland OR, USA
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CDMA isn't like the old AMPS analog system. It's a digital standard. Whereas TDMA and GSM parse your conversation in time slots so that a certain frequency may carry multiple conversations, CDMA spreads your conversation over many frequencies.
CDMA has fewer limitations on how many conversations can be active at one time, but as the network gets more saturated, the voice codec sounds much more digitized and garbled.
The network capacity of GSM and TDMA is limited to the number of timeslots available. This causes the dreaded "network busy" message during times of heavy useage.
CDMA is used in North America, Australia, South Korea, Japan (I-mode is a form of CDMA), and other places. |
Fingers
Joined: Jan 29, 2002
Posts: 468
From: New Zealand
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Oh rite....
And NZ. I dunno the ins and outs I just fix planes, thanks for that, I'm quite interested in all this
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Eamonn
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yes thanks for that - really cleared things up
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Fingers
Joined: Jan 29, 2002
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From: New Zealand
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No chance of the network being saturated in NZ for a while, seeing as there are only 3.8 million people and two mobile phone networks (But one is TDMA and CDMA) and NZ is bigger than the UK. Any other phones other than the motorolas, don't really like the menus. This is all they have at the moment.
http://www.telecom.co.nz/content/0,2502,4000-1519,00.html
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Deltayoda
Joined: Mar 03, 2002
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From: Los Angeles, California
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Not even one Nokia???
OMg, those phones are horrible...
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Fingers
Joined: Jan 29, 2002
Posts: 468
From: New Zealand
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Yeah they're not flash eh. That's why I was wondering if there was something better, at least I've got my T68 and Vodafone NZ to fall back on.
Found this on the  website, http://www.sonyericsson.com/uk/spg.jsp?page=C4.7&B=ie
It's a rundown on all the different types of network, hope the link works.
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