The Blackberry Storm is available in a CDMA/GSM hybrid version. That means that it has both CDMA and GSM communications modules built into the same handset. I suspect that's what you have. I also suspect that the SIM card is only used on GSM networks. Most phones are not CDMA/GSM hybrids (because that tends to increase manufacturing costs).The ones that are would be handy for world travelers though.You cant be more wrong with your info. I own a Blackberry Storm ....it's a CDMA phone WITH a sim card. Used it over seas this past summer. The Tour also has a sim card along with the world edition...
You're delusional. I never said that. I said I had never heard of a CDMA phone having a SIM card, and I still haven't. The hybrid Storm contains two phones in the same package. The SIM card is not part of the CDMA operation. It is a part of the GSM operation. Being in the same package does not make it a CDMA phone with a SIM card. The CDMA and the SIM card are not related to each other.Dude are you just posting to read your own words? I even had to reg. to this site due to the fact what you are saying is a bunch of poo...sorry..ALL Verizon phones are CDMA...that is what the network is.
You claimed there was no such thing as a CDMA phone that also have sim cards..
With a little Googling, I found an article claiming that Motorola has apparently sent a GSM Droid/Sholes to the FCC for testing, on European frequencies. So Europe may not be waiting all that much longer than the U.S.
Dude are you just posting to read your own words? I even had to reg. to this site due to the fact what you are saying is a bunch of poo...sorry..ALL Verizon phones are CDMA...that is what the network is. You claimed there was no such thing as a CDMA phone that also have sim cards..and there is
...not a hybrid...but radios.....some phones just have more than others.
And no..the Droid will only have a CDMA radio so it will not work over seas no matter what country you are in because OUR CDMA network runs a diffrent Frequency
They've pulled it down, but for the short time it was up last night Motorola's site showed CDMA only for the Droid. Looks like no hybrid gsm for it.
Perhaps it is so when you travel here, you can roam to our edge networks.
I missed the part where he claimed to be a Verizon Wireless employee. If he is, that's sad.
Also, isn't ESN being replaced by MEID on Verizon?
I've never heard of a CDMA phone having a SIM card. CDMA phones also won't do GSM.
The Blackberry Storm is available in a CDMA/GSM hybrid version...
And no..the Droid will only have a CDMA radio so it will not work over seas no matter what country you are in because OUR CDMA network runs a diffrent Frequency
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And again: I never said that.IIt might be a bit pedantic to argue that there's no such thing as a CDMA phone with a SIM card or that does GSM.
Which is essentially the same thing as what I said. However, having a SIM card in the same package doesn't make it a CDMA phone with a SIM card. The CDMA portion of the phone does not use the SIM card. The GSM portion of the phone does. I could tape a SIM card to any old CDMA phone and it would be just as close to being a CDMA phone with a SIM card as the Storm is.Yes, billd was technically correct to say that so called "World Phones" like the Storm are hybrids... but they're sold by VZW, a CDMA carrier, intended to be used primarily as CDMA phones. So, for all intents and purposes, they're CDMA phones that also do GSM.
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