Samsung SCH-i830 CDMA/GSM Pocket PC Phone
Phonescoop has been digging around in the FCC database again (naughty!) and uncovered the recent approval of the
Samsung SCH-i830, the first Windows Mobile Pocket PC phone that will rock it on both CDMA and GSM networks. Think of it
as sort of the bastard lovechild of the Samsung i730 and
the A790 — a Pocket PC slider phone with GSM, CDMA and
Bluetooth. It's based on the i730 and shares much of its featureset but, alas, no WiFi and no camera whatsoever. From
the A790 half of the family the i830 has inherited quad-band support for CDMA 800/1900 here in the States, and GSM
900/1800 for your travels across the Atlantic to where the good phones live. We'll be curious to see if the QWERTY
keyboard fares any better on this unit than on the i730, which damn near
broke our hearts.
[Thanks, Rich!]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Carmi @ Dec 19th 2005 1:22AM
I'm still at a loss as to why so few smartphones also ship with Wi-Fi. Are the manufacturers afraid of backlask from the telcos who fear they would lose out on precious airtime revenue if they gave customers another, no/low-cost means of connectivity? It strikes me as flying in the face of what consumers want, and it's irritating given the high demand for it.
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Admiral @ Dec 19th 2005 1:22AM
Personally I am at a loss as to why these types of phones dont come as quadGSM and dualCDMA - with quadGSM, dualCDMA the customer has the ability to use 4 carriers instead of two (sprint & verizon)...
Rich Brome @ Dec 19th 2005 1:22AM
Carmi, the trouble with wi-fi is that people who want that also want Bluetooth, and when you start packing that many antennas into a device, things get really messy really quick. It takes some amazing feats of egineering to make it so everything isn't interfering with everything else.
Admiral, that one's easy. You are not Samsung's customer. Samsung's customer is Verizon. Samsung build all its phones the way its customers (the carriers, not you) want them. Why on earth would Verizon want you to be able to use your phone on a domestic GSM network? They wouldn't.