If the Qheads who post on SI tiresomely bashing Nokia actually had any deductive reasoning skills versus kneejerk reactions, they'd now be rooting hard for the Nokians to deploy WCDMA ASAP.
Actually, there are several theories on that. Let's say the lying sacks of shit at Nokia can't even deliver GPRS, then the world may seriously doubt Nokia's capability and claims regarding WCDMA. Which means, there is a chance, albeit small, that the world blows of the vaporware of WCDMA, moves to cdma2000 with working 3G systems (as opposed to moving to non working WCDMA systems).
You see that there are lots of folks, including myself that seriously doubt Nokia can make WCDMA work. So the sooner WCDMA is blown off- the sooner 3G systems get built with cdma2000. Thus Qualcomm does better with no WCDMA launched, cdma2000 launched later by GSM crowd, than it would if WCDMA gets launched by the GSM crowd but doesn't work and the next 5 years are wasted on systems that don't result in WCDMA or CDMA handset sales.
There is also the theory, that when it comes down to it, Qualcomm will save the day for the carriers that do choose WCDMA by actually making WCDMA chips and systems that work.
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