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I've said it before and I'll say it again. I really don't see this "lag".
It's true that GSM often gets "hot" devices before CDMA carriers do, BUT it is also true that CDMA carriers often get "hot" devices before GSM carriers do. I mean, remeber when the Voyager came out? An obvious attempt to pick on the iPhone, sure, and not exactly a PDA, but it was one heck of a cool device in the public eye! Not even going to get into the PDA lineup, which is turning out to be pretty darn good this year.
This idea that GSM gets all the "good" phones exclusive or first is pretty much an illusion that people have made for themselves, due to GSM phones using Sim cards and being easy to switch. This is admittedly easier on the consumer than changing an ESN, and allows them to look off-network for phones. (The grass is always greener in somebody else's yard after all.) Because of this, one thing you see in GSM that you don't see in CDMA are novelty phones, made by cell companies but not subsidized by carriers, with things such as boombox phones or wristwatch phones and such. This is probably part of the reason LTE will use SIM cards, but it doesn't make GSM "superior".
Oh, and there's always that little argument that most of our devices don't have wifi or that we don't have the Apple snobPhone.
The only other devices I've heard customers lament over us not having are the Hello Kitty phone (an oddity by anyone's standards) and that Nokia media thingie, and there's PDAs that do the same, if not better.Last edited by Polychrome; 10-12-09 at 04:38 PM.
10-12-09 04:34 PM - For Q1 & Q2 2009, the following numbers & rankings.
1. Nokia : 196.4 million
2. Samsung : 98.1 million
3. LG Electronics : 52.4 million
4. Motorola : 29.5 million
5. Sony Ericsson : 28.3 million
Smartphones are as follows:
Nokia: 15 million
RIM: 7.25 million
Apple: 4 million
HTC: 2 million
Fujitsu: 1.4 million
A little bit that can be taken from that is how small smartphone sales still are in comparison with overall cell phone sales.
But it doesn't indicate the total number of OS platforms in use - BlackBerry is nowhere close to being number 2, although in my mind now, they may resemble Number 2, in a toddler's perspective.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com10-12-09 05:37 PM - You did say smartphone, which implies more than a toddler, as RIM has no feature phone market. WM, iphone blah. Maybe Android. RIM has a clear market, though it's not the consumer market. Windows, 25+ years old, owns the world, yet I wouldn't want it controlling the avionics on my plane. Those BSODs are pesky creatures. Quantity is irrelevant to function.For Q1 & Q2 2009, the following numbers & rankings.
1. Nokia : 196.4 million
2. Samsung : 98.1 million
3. LG Electronics : 52.4 million
4. Motorola : 29.5 million
5. Sony Ericsson : 28.3 million
Smartphones are as follows:
Nokia: 15 million
RIM: 7.25 million
Apple: 4 million
HTC: 2 million
Fujitsu: 1.4 million
A little bit that can be taken from that is how small smartphone sales still are in comparison with overall cell phone sales.
But it doesn't indicate the total number of OS platforms in use - BlackBerry is nowhere close to being number 2, although in my mind now, they may resemble Number 2, in a toddler's perspective.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com
But I do agree smartphone sales lag feature phones, of course smartphone bills are more than feature phone bills. That may have something to do with it.
10-12-09 08:09 PM
