Android accounts for one-quarter of mobile web traffic
Android is mopping up Apple and RIM's declining mobile mindshare in the US, you'll find nothing but corroboration from Quantcast. The analytics firm reckons a full one-quarter of mobile web traffic stateside comes from devices running Google's OS
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Let's go over things here.
GSM Vs. CDMA.
CDMA is great for carriers. The phones are locked to them (The network to use is hard-coded in the firmware) and they can oversubscribe available bandwidth massively.
GSM, however, is better for consumers. If you want to change networks, you pop out the SIM card for your old network and pop in a new SIM for the new network. Travel outside the US at all? You NEED GSM (As the US + subsidiaries are the ONLY countries that use it). Want guaranteed call quality? GSM is the answer. Each cell tower has enough bandwidth allocated for it's available channels, as the number of available channels is fixed by available bandwidth, rather than variable by demand like CDMA is.
GSM has it's data seperate from the voice network (Well, apart from SMS), and uses (In order of slowness) GPRS (Slowest), EDGE or UMTS (Fastest) (Depending on coverage for that area). This means lots of people downloading masses of data doesn't affect calling quality at all.
GSM has industry adoption the world over, whereas CDMA only has it's niche in the US/Canada. The only people who come forth in support of CDMA are people who are (or were formerly) employees of Qualcomm. And considering it was Qualcomm that came up with CDMA, that's not all that surprising.
Amen Brother!
Engadget: "Verizon dumps CDMA for GSM-based LTE in 4G networks"
http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/verizon-dumps-cdma-for-gsm-based-lte-in-4g-networks/
You're dumb. First of all, the networks are locked. There are 0 locks on the phones, outside of VZW replacing some phone UI's/features.
Ever hear of R-UIM? No? Google it. China and Korea (and possibly others) use it.
I can go take my Verizon phone, or my friend's Sprint phone, to China, Africa, Korea, or where ever and use it on the CDMA networks there.
Data is separate on CDMA too.
And, if Google did a phone, they'd probably make it a world phone, and just go GSM in Europe, and CDMA in the US and other countries.
So, I could go to the US, grab a Sprint or Verizon phone for use while I'm there, and when I return to Canada, use that same phone on Telus here?
No?
But I can do that with T-Mo/Cingular/AT&T/ and Rogers/Fido (GSM).
All I need to do is walk up to my local Rogers or Fido dealer, and buy a "Pay as you go" SIM for $30, with $20 calling credit onboard.
I know this works. I moved from the UK, and took my Nokia 6260 (Which was on Orange PAYG) with me, and now it's running just fine on Rogers Wireless. And if I ever went back to the UK, all I need do is swap the Rogers SIM with my Orange SIM and I'd be back on their network. No muss, no fuss, no sitting on hold for hours trying to get a network to release their claws from the phone I've got, and waiting hours for another network to acknowledge I want to bring my own phone to their network.