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@avishekghosh: See "technife"'s posts in the last page above your post, good points there which covers most of your questions!

@Hitesh, Can GSM phones be converted to cdma is there any way of doing so. pls let me know as i plan to buy the samesung corby ***** Your question can probably be answered via a counter question which may be more easily be accepted and understood by many non-technical persons too : Can a regular AM radio can be converted to a FM radio ? NO, not possible easily or affordably. Can a regular FM radio receive a local MW (vividh-bharathi-type) broadcast ? NO, not possible easily or affordably. Can a CAR's petrol-engine be adpated to run on diesel ? NO, not possible easily or affordably. Can GSM phones be converted to CDMA ? NO, not possible easily or affordably. Mobile phones contain "wireless" electronics. They also contain "computing" electronics. This first part (wireless) is different for CDMA v/s GSM. (users rarely interact with this part on a regular basis). The second part (computing) is largely similar for both CDMA and GSM. (ie display, keyboard, menus, etc which users intereact regularly). The first part (wireless) is the problem ... to convert a CDMA phone to a GSM phone or vice-versa, easily and affordably. Since the second part is always seen by users, and seems rather similar on both CDMA and GSM phones, it is reasonable for you ask such a question. This is my understanding and way of explaining. Other gurus on this forum who have better technical understandings, please help correct my KISS (keep it simple and stupid) explanation is incorrect or drastically wrong. Thanks, TechNife :-)

Here are my Corby Speed experiences, from a device pov, and with reference an earlier postings on this topic : Have used the device now for about a month. Got it for 9K, with proper bill, paid by credit card. Yes the EVDO access works. It works only after (a) you use OMH card in lieu of regular card and ( service-provider backend enables broadband/EVDO access. Had to chase Samsung to obtain the OMH card because Reliance WW shops did not have an OMH card available. Device has two signal-strength bars on display (top left). One for 1X, another for EVDO. The EVDO, when available, gives much better speeds than CDMA 1X. Have benchmarked it a few times and it has ranged from 1.2 to 2.4 mbps. Did those tests via a computer browser, using the Corby-speed as the modem. Have posted the speedtest.net results on the other topic on this site earlier. The on-phone browser experience DOES NOT impress me. I found it quite painful to use. In fact the overall on-phone experience, to me, reeks of IMMATURE SOFTWARE DESIGN. Note that I am comparing it only with a lowly GSM Motorola-Ming software behaviour (a Linux phone). Am NOT comparing here with Symbian or Windoze phones ;-) Even so I am disappointed with the Corby-Speed in terms of its "usability". IMMATURE SOFTWARE : One big-bitch I have is that when you key in stuff, the on-screen keyboard... a key, on touch, will blink, will beep, BUT will not register the character of that key or show up on the entry string. You have to hold your touch until the character shows up on the entry string, AFTER the blink and the beep. Aaargh ! This is the kind of wrong-sequence stuff I am saying when I say "software is immature". Some stupid firmware designer at Samsung does NOT recognise that the blink and beep are meant to be user acknowledgements that can happen ONLY after their darn system got the keystroke. Someone at Samsung who approved this software must be really stupid or needs mentoring !!! The Corby Speed model number is SCH-F339. However Google-mobile-site thinks this phone as a SCH-F309. So I guess either Samsung code has a typo in their firmware code, OR they have slapped in some code from an earlier phone. (No, I have not yet googled to find what exactly is a F309). Google says it does NOT have any software/clients for this phone (i.e Gmail client, Google Maps, etc). One email which had a doc file attachment, when retrieved, will consistently cause the phone to simply switch off. Never could see that mail on this phone. If you revisit a working email account-settings, and just open the first email-id setting, it will automagically update the domain names within your smtp and pop3 settings, per email-id-domain, without any warning to the user... and you keep wondering why a working setting suddenly stopped working, when all you did was to review the settings to copy it into another new account. The touch screen response is UNpredictable at times. When you swipe to do a scroll something, it will get selected... When you want to select something it will just mildly oscillate as if ready for a scroll request. Aargh ! So try again until the two (you and the phone) agree on what is to be done. I could not figure any cut-copy-paste feature on this touch screen phone... The sadists at Samsung want you go type everything each time you require it. What a disaster for a touch phone ! Many many more such quirks and irritants, esp for those who have experienced normal PDA-grade devices and phones. I would continue using the Corby-Speed (without choice becoz I have already paid my hard earned money on this phone) primarily for these functions: (a) Make and receive voice calls ( Send and receive regular sms messages © Use device as broadband modem for my computer. (d) All else for occassional entertainment (or irritation). ;-) Cheers, TechNife

Thanks to suggestion from "me_saket"; me "technife", shall continue some relevant postings here (on "Samsung Corby Speed CDMA Launched") instead of the earlier topic "Blank Ruim Card". A few lines copied here from the other topic, for continuity QUOTE: *** Did u got 10GB free? NO. Not yet. The sequence of events on this so far.... 15-03 Chased WW for 10GB-30days-free-offer activation. WW registered complaint and gave me a ticket number. 17-03 Follow-up with CC. CC says some problem (cant explain), please visit WW (familiar sequence ;-) ) 18-03 WW cannot confirm a problem, hear me out, send email to somebody, advise me to check status via CC. UNQUOTE: 30-03-2010: Still following up about every two days with WW since 18th. I have flexi-time-work these days and hence can afford to do this 10-minute act each time I drive past the WW. Have been creating records, either ticket-numbers, or getting WW to give date stamped chits having the ticket-number, to confirm my visits to WW. May just be useful in case I eventually consider it worthwhile and have the time and inclination, to drag them to a consumer court for inefficiency. BTW is NOT easy to get them to give you date-stamped-signed chits. This WW appears to be following up with some internal mailid/department. Fortunately still have still not lost my patience (perhaps am MF'ed to a sort-of numbness on this already). Cheers, TechNife