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Originally Posted by Doit2it
Could it be possible that the Nexus One has the Snapdragon QSD8650™ chip and is a dual GSM/CDMA phone? I don't know how much info was given to the Google employees as the phones were handed out. And anyone seeing a SIM card slot inside the phone would assume GSM only. This is a new technology, possible there is a switch in the Phone settings menus for CDMA/GSM (default GSM). Wishful thinking maybe? |
I thought the exact same thing yesterday brother! It's definitely possible. If they can put the European GSM band radio in the Blackberry Storm as well as have the CDMA radio in it, then why couldn't they just make the GSM radio they put in this phone one that is compatible with U.S. bands and also CDMA? The answer: I think they could. The reason they haven't done this in the past with other phones is because Verizon doesn't want someone in the U.S. to get a Blackberry Storm, for example, and then go put an AT&T Wireless SIM card in it and then Verizon loses business. So...if Google is wanting to make a kind of universal phone that works on all of the networks in the U.S., all they would have to do would be to make a phone that has all of the radios in it, GSM for AT&T and GSM for T-Mobile and then CDMA. If that's possible, and I think it would be because the same thing has been done to plenty of other world phones, then all they would have to do is sell it themselves. And...isn't that what they're going to do? Yep.
So, I think you're onto something perhaps. Cause you can't just look at a phone with a SIM card slot and know that it's also compatible with CDMA bands. There's no physical evidence that would hint towards that. So, you'd automatically assume it's a GSM only phone. I'd probably assume the same thing, but that may not be the case. It could be a world phone, but in this case, I guess it would be a Nation Phone. Works on any network in the U.S. It's just a fun theory really, but it'd be kinda cool I guess. Who knows? We might even be right.