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CDMA was introduced by the military during WW2 and once made public Quallcomm patented it and exploited it's commercial uses into what we have today.

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Nags

This doesn't change what I said. GSM was implemented for commercial cell phone use before CDMA. GSM (for cell phones) has been around longer. I suspect that the CDMA technology that the military was using in the 40's would be similar to comparing the internet to ARPANET.

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[Nags]

Touche'...You are correct but I still stand by what I said. I guess we're both kinda right here, we each have our point, only two different ways of viewing it. Kinda like the Mac and PC commercial...of course, I'm the Mac.

Nags

[spum]

I hate those commercials. The only reason that there are more virii for Windows than there are for Macs is because there are more people that run Windows. If Mac OSX was the popular operating system, there would be a lot more virii for it than Windows. I guess they take the right logic when they're advertising to the masses that don't know any better, but they still piss me off. I'm a Mac fan (I don't have one, but I like them), but I hate those commercials.

[Nags]

Oh C'mon, those commercials are ingenious and humorous. It pokes fun at the differences of the two competing technologies with a good degree of truth, and truth in humor is what makes something funny. I've had both Macs and PC's, and really cannot even begin to compare them as far as build quality, performance and reliabilty because Apple is so ahead of the curve. I never crash, I never freeze up and yes, I've never had a virus that I know of in 10 years (virus's are written for maximum damage so it only makes sense to go after the pc with it's market share). But since this is a cell phone forum, I'll bring it back to that...Keep your eyes open in the next 6 months to a year as Apple introduces it's very own cell phone to the market, don't know what they will call it, maybe iPhone?

Nags

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Something else about those commercials is that they advertise Mac vs. PC...although I can bet that there are more virii for Mac than there are for Linux. Linux never freezes up or crashes (unless you mess it up). They're really comparing their full systems to an operating system...not the full machine. But, again, most people don't know that. It irritates me because I know better, but I have to admit that it's a good marketing concept.

[motorazrs07]

I have always had better reception from my cdma phones compared to GSM. " Cingular" I have never used T- Mobile but in my area the cdma puts out a much clearer reception. thats only my opinion though.

[Nags]

The Mac OS does sit on top of a Linux shell so it is built around the Linux platform which may be a reason for its stability.

[Brad729]

^^^ Guys, get back on-topic or I'll have to close the thread... All this Mac/PC/Linux talk belongs in our Computers forum, NOT in a thread about competing cellular technologies.

[CoolNate32]

I have always had better reception from my cdma phones compared to GSM. " Cingular" I have never used T- Mobile but in my area the cdma puts out a much clearer reception. thats only my opinion though.

Same for me.

[isjoanne]

Hey new to this forum. But everyone says Telus is on cdma but I am with telus and I am on gsm network.

[erwin 10-4]

Hey new to this forum. But everyone says Telus is on cdma but I am with telus and I am on gsm network.

that is the same thing happening to o2 wireless and h2o wireless same company but different frequency, o2 is gsm and h2o is cdma and now the removing the name o2 and change it to h2o, cdma and gsm in the same name just look at the back of your phone no sim card means cdma, w/ sim card gsm.

[namratasnv]

I have always had better reception from my cdma phones compared to GSM. " Cingular" I have never used T- Mobile but in my area the cdma puts out a much clearer reception. thats only my opinion though.

Same here! I am using CDMA cell phone do have the commercial phone in my office and till date I didn't find any problem with the network. Around 2 years back I switched to CDMA and before that I was using GSM and not getting better services in terms of connectivity and network (proper range) and now I am completely free.