- CDMA - Carrier Does Modify All (phone. So better call the carrier if they will carry cdma version...
Posted via CB1010-25-15 10:15 AMLike 0 -
- For BB? No.
But in general, yes. Plenty. US Cellular in the US--they are the 5th largest carrier. C Spire. China Telecom. Reliance India has a CDMA network as well. A couple in South Korea, one in Japan. Russia has a few as well, as does Africa.Dunt Dunt Dunt likes this.10-25-15 03:50 PMLike 1 - Thanks Raino. I thought I remember others on CDMA. So, if BlackBerry wants to truly sell the Priv worldwide, they'll need to have a CDMA version. This is way more than Sprint and Verizon in the US. How many CDMA versions would be required? In one words, are CDMA phones interchangeable on various CDMA networks?10-25-15 04:06 PMLike 0
- Thanks Raino. I thought I remember others on CDMA. So, if BlackBerry wants to truly sell the Priv worldwide, they'll need to have a CDMA version. This is way more than Sprint and Verizon in the US. How many CDMA versions would be required? In one words, are CDMA phones interchangeable on various CDMA networks?
Posted via CB1010-25-15 07:10 PMLike 0 -
- Thanks Raino. I thought I remember others on CDMA. So, if BlackBerry wants to truly sell the Priv worldwide, they'll need to have a CDMA version. This is way more than Sprint and Verizon in the US. How many CDMA versions would be required? In one words, are CDMA phones interchangeable on various CDMA networks?10-25-15 08:00 PMLike 0
- What I am not understanding, and maybe because i'm a Sprint customer so this annoys me even more, but why not create the Priv with just one US edition that has all bands in it. Google Nexus products do this and iPhone has done this since for a year now too. I don't know about Verizon but you can activate any phone on Sprint that is compatible by just going into the store. Seems had they done that, BB would maximize their exposure.
I'm guessing it could be agreements with the carriers or maybe cost prohibitive at this time? Whats the deal with this?10-25-15 09:02 PMLike 0 -
TELUS is aiming to shutdown the CDMA network in 2015 | MobileSyrup.com
Bell lays out plan to shutter its CDMA network by January 1st, 2017 | MobileSyrup.comraino likes this.10-25-15 09:20 PMLike 1 - What I am not understanding, and maybe because i'm a Sprint customer so this annoys me even more, but why not create the Priv with just one US edition that has all bands in it. Google Nexus products do this and iPhone has done this since for a year now too. I don't know about Verizon but you can activate any phone on Sprint that is compatible by just going into the store. Seems had they done that, BB would maximize their exposure.
I'm guessing it could be agreements with the carriers or maybe cost prohibitive at this time? Whats the deal with this?10-25-15 09:25 PMLike 0 - Thanks Raino. I thought I remember others on CDMA. So, if BlackBerry wants to truly sell the Priv worldwide, they'll need to have a CDMA version. This is way more than Sprint and Verizon in the US. How many CDMA versions would be required? In one words, are CDMA phones interchangeable on various CDMA networks?
I presume you're on Verizon or Sprint in the US, and no matter how much you WANT your conclusion to be true, it isn't.
Posted via the CrackBerry App for Android10-25-15 09:31 PMLike 0 - What I am not understanding, and maybe because i'm a Sprint customer so this annoys me even more, but why not create the Priv with just one US edition that has all bands in it. Google Nexus products do this and iPhone has done this since for a year now too. I don't know about Verizon but you can activate any phone on Sprint that is compatible by just going into the store. Seems had they done that, BB would maximize their exposure.
I'm guessing it could be agreements with the carriers or maybe cost prohibitive at this time? Whats the deal with this?
Posted via the CrackBerry App for Android10-25-15 09:34 PMLike 0 - What I am not understanding, and maybe because i'm a Sprint customer so this annoys me even more, but why not create the Priv with just one US edition that has all bands in it. Google Nexus products do this and iPhone has done this since for a year now too. I don't know about Verizon but you can activate any phone on Sprint that is compatible by just going into the store. Seems had they done that, BB would maximize their exposure.
I'm guessing it could be agreements with the carriers or maybe cost prohibitive at this time? Whats the deal with this?10-25-15 09:35 PMLike 0 - What I am not understanding, and maybe because i'm a Sprint customer so this annoys me even more, but why not create the Priv with just one US edition that has all bands in it. Google Nexus products do this and iPhone has done this since for a year now too. I don't know about Verizon but you can activate any phone on Sprint that is compatible by just going into the store. Seems had they done that, BB would maximize their exposure.
I'm guessing it could be agreements with the carriers or maybe cost prohibitive at this time? Whats the deal with this?
I tried for days to find one, but either they are not being sold in the US, or everyone who has one is aware of what they have, or Idk. All in all, the variant that has the combination of all the bands is the Japanese variant and you won't find it. (even if you did, chances are Verizon won't let you activate it).
So if you get the Verizon variant and run it on TMobile, you won't have the HSPA+ capabilities and 4G TMobile won't work.
If you get the GSM version, you won't have CDMA antenna (this is a physical hardware radio antenna that is different from the GSM antenna) and won't be able to run it on verizon at all.
Posted via CB1010-25-15 09:38 PMLike 0 - I can't speak for Google Nexus but iPhone is most definitely NOT one device with all the bands. I've looked into it for iPhone 5s. There were 4 different variants. You could only tell them apart by their serial numbers (think STL100-1 vs STL100-4 for example). Verizon and sprint were both using the same variant due to it needing CDMA antena. Second variant was GSM version for US. Third variant was GSM version for Europe/rest of the world (even though they are GSM, they run on slightly different frequency bands and so I assume this variant was optimized for that). Last variant was a Japanese version that seemed like a master phone. It had CDMA, HSPA, GSM, and pretty much all the other bands included. It was truly the only "global" iPhone, that if unlocked, could truly be used anywhere.
I tried for days to find one, but either they are not being sold in the US, or everyone who has one is aware of what they have, or Idk. All in all, the variant that has the combination of all the bands is the Japanese variant and you won't find it. (even if you did, chances are Verizon won't let you activate it).
So if you get the Verizon variant and run it on TMobile, you won't have the HSPA+ capabilities and 4G TMobile won't work.
If you get the GSM version, you won't have CDMA antenna (this is a physical hardware radio antenna that is different from the GSM antenna) and won't be able to run it on verizon at all.
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Verizon editions generally fully support AT&T and T-Mobile since the 5s.
Posted via CB10raino likes this.10-25-15 10:51 PMLike 1 -
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Hopefully they are on board though.10-26-15 12:10 AMLike 0 - I haven't looked at the new ones, but even the Nexus 6 was at least a four-carrier device (if not five, including US Cellular.)10-26-15 12:14 AMLike 0
- So why wouldn't every phone manufacturer do this? It would seem that designing, building and supporting one model would make economic sense. Is it really the carriers putting up roadblocks?10-26-15 01:57 PMLike 0
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