Saturday, December 5, 2009

Meizu M8 not likely on Verizon

PMPToday states that the M8 will be available on Verizon. Which is not the case since the M8 will be a GSM phone. Most likely they got confused by SCDMA to be confused with Verizon's CDMA. SCDMA appears to be a Chinese 3G standard. Here is the wikipedia explanation:

TD-SCDMA (Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) is a 3G mobile telecommunications standard, being pursued in the People's Republic of China by the Chinese Academy of Telecommunications Technology (CATT), Datang and Siemens AG, in an attempt not to be "dependent on Western technology
Wikipedia

not to be confused with CDMA
CDMA2000 is a hybrid 2.5G / 3G protocol of mobile telecommunications standards that use CDMA, a multiple access scheme for digital radio, to send voice, data, and signalling data (such as a dialed telephone number) between mobile phones and cell sites. CDMA2000 is considered a 2.5G protocol in 1xRTT and a 3G protocol in EVDO.

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