| You're right, of course, that as a Nokia shareholder I'm not happy about any of their failings. I'm not as pessimistic as you about whether or not Nokia has used up its chances with Verizon. If Nokia, in the future, comes out with popular, differentiated phones that meet Verizon's specifications, I have trouble accepting the idea that Verizon would just ignore them. Also, I did present a list of nineteen carriers, including such luminous names as Sprint, Alltel, and Quest, that have no problems with the 6185i on their CDMA networks and am quite vexed by Verizon's anamolous position. What could possibly be going on at Verizon that isn't at the other nineteen. If there were, as you speculate, non-uniform standards for two-way text messaging amongst CDMA networks, what are the odds that the ratio of those having trouble with two-way text messaging utilizing the 5185i against those that do not would be as extreme as possible: 1 : 19. I guess that the law of averages would tend to imply that Verizon would be not alone. I wonder, as a control, whether any of the other mobile phone vendors have also had trouble getting their phones to work with Verizon or if this is an isolated quirk. Really, what could be the difference between Verizon and the others? |
