OT extelecom, saying that I don't know if Nok has a working chipset or not, but that I have not seen a Nok phone with one in a Verizon store is not getting my facts wrong. I checked the Verizon website again for my area and there is NO Nok phone there. I asked for "by manufacturer" and there is nothing for Nok in my area. And you are incorrect when you say that Nok only had a problem due to "the interpretation of the Standards." That was one of their problems with their 1X chipset hence the reason many labs would not take the phone, I believe Lucent has since said they would work on a software fix on their side so that they could test Nok's phone, however many infrastructure vendors have said they will not provide a patch for Nok's problem. If you would like to provide me a link to Nok's resolution of their problem, I'd be glad to read it. Nok has also in the past year had a problem where their SMS WAS NOT WORKING...this had nothing to do with the interpretation of the standard. It was a software bug that caused Verizon to recall Nok phones and stop all orders. I told you before I work in this field, I in fact had a conference call with one of the CDMA acceptance labs today. I don't claim to know everything about every manufacturer, there are plenty of things that are not shared, but when certain vendors are having problems with equipment, it becomes common knowledge very quickly and no Nok "damage control" press release can change the fact that they've had issues.
Regarding GPRS, you need to distinguish between Europe and the U.S. U.S. standards are much tougher. GPRS did in fact have a hard time getting off the ground everywhere due to transmit issues, SAR problems,battery issues etc. I checked ATT's website and they currently have 1 Nok model and a total of 3 GPRS phones available, far from the many available in Europe. Yes, GPRS can work, but it is a temporary solution and eventually it will migrate to W-CDMA. People are being fooled into buying into this temporary fix, that's the public for you, but people who do their research know what position QCOM is in and where all the European telcos are headed.
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