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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If Only Sprint (When It Was Still Sprint Pcs) Had Stayed GSM. Does Anyone Else Remember When They First Came Out With Wireless Sprint Was GSM For A VERY Short Time. Sorry About The Caps But Am Typing This In T9.
Must have been brief. Back in 98 or so, it was CDMA...going along with that crystal clear pin drop talking campaign. Sprint PCS was new to Indy when I jumped on (then later went to Tmob).
I'm of the opinion though that Homeland Security goofed big time after 9/11 in NOT forcing all networks to use GSM, and then take over the towers or handle control in a fashion similar to the current internet structure. Aside from the big brother evil aspects, the good uses would include cell tower specific weather and amber alerts that could be texted out to anyone in that area. You also wouldn't need 4 towers in one location for the 4 major carriers, just a beefier network and more towers, but definitely nowhere near 4x as many. There's just too much needless overlap and waste
One network would mean you shop for a phone, then find a carrier for service, unlike the messed up system we have today. But it sure is great for business, locking you in by phone more or less.
Kumar:
Requiring GSM would have stifled innovation for starters. CDMA is better than TDMA (which was used in GSM 1G and 2G), especially when it comes to adding more towers (which you speak of).
And the stuff you list about sending information from towers is not tied to GSM in any way. The signalling system in no way determines what data can be sent over it.
Sprint was CDMA before they went nationwide, maybe people in some regions had GSM Sprint before the nationwide rollout.
The reason we select phones and networks has nothing to do with technology. It's because of the business models the providers have chosen. Parts of Europe are switching to the US model (exclusive phones) right now, by the way (which sucks) and it isn't because they suddenly adopted CDMA2000. It's because of the iPhone and other smartphones and the perceived advantage the carriers see to being the only ones who offer a particular phone.
You are seriously mistaken, Sprint was never GSM, in fact, I have an old Sprint PDA phone from when Sprint was Sprint PCS (http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=PDA2032SP-N). It clearly shows CDMA on the back of the phone. Sprint has always had a CDMA/GSM world travel ready device, today Sprint only have a couple devices. Here is a list of all the old CDMA devices: http://www.sprint.com/business/resources/schedule/pdf/pcs_handsets.pdf That was during PCS.