Tero,
What's driving the market inroads of CDMA vs. other technologies is not the quality of the handsets. It is the operators making judgments about the long-term cost and capability of infrastructure. That is where CDMA has been winning overwhelmingly in application to new system builds.
There is not the diversity of handset offerings in CDMA as in GSM, but that gap will close quickly. My observation of your continual battery diatribes is that you continue to mix apples and oranges, being careless about weight vs. benefits. Because of its dynamic power control, CDMA will win with comparable batteries. A CDMA handset is controlled by the base station to broadcast with only as much power as is necessary to be heard by the base station. Other technologies are blasting at full power continually during talk time.
The battery technologies of NiCad, NiMH, and Li Ion have differing capabilities as well. A NiCad has memory and has to be discharged fully each use or it will hold less and less of a charge as time goes on. A NiMH can be recharged without running down, but has a very limited duration. Li Ion, as in the current QCP series, can be recharged anytime, and has a very long duration. Personally, I have at various times had all three, and barring future advances, I'll never buy anything but Li Ion again, even if it means slightly more weight. The convenience is just too great.
Everything is a compromise when making a handset. The ultimate configuration of a given handset probably says more about the manufacturer's identified target market than it does about their technical prowess. |
