Verizon Cdma Will Work With Any Phone

[vishalsheth 19]

I learnt this from another group. It can be checked on the net.

"Verizon Wireless To Let You Use Any Phone On Its Network

Posted Nov 28th 2007 11:23AM by Terrence O'Brien

Filed under: Cell Phones, Google

Verizon has announced,

to the amazement of many of us cynics, that it will be opening up its

wireless network to any device that meets a minimum set of technical

standards, the specifics of which will be announced in early 2008.

Those standards are likely to be something simple along the lines of

connecting to the CDMA network that Verizon runs, and that don't

interfere with wireless traffic.

In fact Verizon Wireless Chief

Marketing Officer, John Stratton, told a Dow Jones reporter that the

devices in question need not be phones. He is quoted as saying the

types of devices a customer could connect are "subject to the imagination of the marketplace." Hello, Kindle, Zune, and other wireless devices that are not phones.

This

means that, if you so desired, you could build your own phone, or

mobile Internet device, or even portable video game system with

high-speed EV-DO

capabilities in your basement on a breadboard, take it or send it to

the Verizon labs, and, if it passes muster, connect it to the Verizon

network. But that's for geeks like us (or maybe you) -- what's more

likely is that people will buy themselves an unlocked phone, or perhaps

a phone from a small name builder, or maybe just carry over their

Sprint or Alltel handsets. (Phones from T-Mobile and AT&T will not

work because those operators use GSM, a different technology than

Verizon.)

Verizon

also said it would allow users to surf the Web openly and download any

independent, third-party applications. This kind of functionality has

been available around the world for a while now, but it's a first for

the United States. The long and short of it is you'll be able to pick

and choose what you want to download to your phone, rather than rely on

whatever Verizon offers you "on deck." It also means, most likely, that

users will be able to download porn for the first time onto their

phones (again, something that the rest of the world has been able to do

for a while). "

Here is the link http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/27/technology...sion=2007112718

Sounds good. When is Reliance doing this?

Edited November 29, 2007 by vishalsheth