Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of its Windows Powered Smartphone and Pocket PC software for CDMA and broadband CDMA (1xRTT) networks. The new release delivers the same Pocket PC and Smartphone software available for GSM/GPRS networks.
Windows-based Smartphone/PocketPC Software for CDMA
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It did pay to screw them, after all.
Ah, you can always count on MS’ brazenness.
So – you’ve got 750 mill. people worldwide using GSM – and the 100 mill. americans go with CDMA – go figure…
Must be nice making money on someone elses tech.I need a racket like that.
Is there anyone working on an opensource hardware/software specification for a cellphone? Would be cool to roll your own cellphone with some off-shelf parts and a customized Linux distro
Take a Zaurus and add a GSM/GPRS/UMTS/CDMA card and you have it. Things are not new because MS made and announcement…
Why is it that all of the ‘smart phone’ capabilities are going into cell phones? Why not put such capabilities in regular cordless phones that go in your house?
For example, imagine if you had the ability to make a ‘white list’ of phone numbers (family, friends, etc) and anyone who calls that isn’t on this list automatically went to voicemail. Or maybe you could send them to a special voicemail prompt that told all telemarketers to hang up and everybody else to press a certain number of the call self-destructs. (There are already devices on the market that do the latter, but I’ve never seen one that does the former, much less the former and the latter together).
Imagine if you could program your phone with a different ring tone depending on who called, so you knew instantly who it was, or just tell your phone to not answer at all if your boss calls you on weekends, etc. The possibilities are endless here …. you could even hook it up to your PC or Mac via a USB port to make it easier to set up!
A computer with a voice modem and a headset?
It could work, but is there any sort of software solution for this kind of thing?
Samsung i700 CDMA PocketPC
http://www.infosync.no/news/2002/n/2846.html
Now, if this thing only came with built-in WiFi also – I would be sold cold.
Case in point – Microsoft Windows.
CDMA versus GSM – I love how so many people think that GSM is sooo much better. GSM is just a TDMA air interface with a little more of a protocol stack, and other bits that have nothing to do with the actual functionality (SIM cards for instance). And so many people who dig GSM turn up their noses at TDMA.
http://denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2002/10/GSM3G.shtml
Might be useful reading to catch up to speed on wireless technologies (although Code Division Multiplexing and Time Division Multiplexing are used in wired technologies).
GSM vs TDMA at least.
GSM vs CDMA, that’s a different story, and with 3G, it’s not even relevant, ’cause 3G is basically Wideband CDMA anyway.
You’ve forgotten FDMA in GSM.
And I personally think, GSM is not just an air interface. All infrastructure (e.g. IN-s) is a part of GSM term as well.
> And I personally think, GSM is not just an air interface. All infrastructure (e.g. IN-s) is a part of GSM term as well.
Maybe the most important of GSM is the infrastructure. Oh yes, and no (add the adjective American if you’re in Europe or Asia) private companies collecting royalties.