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HTC unveils their first Android 'world phone'

article published on 27 February, 2011

HTC has announced their first Android 'world phone,' the Merge. The slider CDMA phone will go on sale in the U.S. during the "spring," and will likely be available on Sprint and Verizon. Featuring a 3.8-inch multi-touch display, HTC did not say what the resolution of the Merge will be. For the QWWERTY slide-out, it is unclear whether the phone will feature a four or five row keyboard. ... [ read the full article ]

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27. February 2011 @ 23:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Any Android with a single core processor, at this point, is not worth looking at.

Move along folks. nothing to see here.

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28. February 2011 @ 02:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
How does a CDMA phone be a world wide phone it would not work in Australia for a start as CDMA got shut down years ago.
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28. February 2011 @ 21:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by xtago:
How does a CDMA phone be a world wide phone it would not work in Australia for a start as CDMA got shut down years ago.

Yeah, I was thinking the same. It must have a gsm radio w/ card slot as well.
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Originally posted by dirtyash:
Originally posted by xtago:
How does a CDMA phone be a world wide phone it would not work in Australia for a start as CDMA got shut down years ago.

Yeah, I was thinking the same. It must have a gsm radio w/ card slot as well.

It does have a GSM radio. In the US, the CDMA network is more dominant than GSM (which I reckon puts the US a couple of paces behind the rest of the world), which makes this type of feature quite invaluable for getting comms everywhere, and anywhere. Predictably though, the carrier that is adopting the phone first, will lock the GSM radio within the US, forcing locals to use the CDMA network of the said carrier. The bast scenario, is that an MVNO like Straight talk, that has access to both types of networks, gets this phone unlocked, to adapt to the best network at the time, and place. I am however not going to hold my breath.
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