Enter the Kyocera Torque, the latest Sprint smartphone featuring the network's CDMA-based Push-to-Talk service.
The smartphone prototype is LG's first full-touch CDMA device with built-in Mobile DTV circuitry.
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Gurian points to the company's CDMA mobile-phone technology, which is making progress at building market share in Europe, where rival GSM technology is still dominant.
The HTC Merge is also HTC's first Android-based CDMA world phone.
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Korean makers LGand Samsung--making CDMA phones with Qualcomm's chips--began bombing the U.S. with far cheaper models, undercutting Qualcomm's handset business.
It's tri-band GSM, EDGE and W-CDMA, so you can stay connected from pretty much anywhere, as quickly as possible.
It signed a deal earlier this year to source phones from an undisclosed Asian contractor that will work with the carrier's chosen technology, code-division multiple access (CDMA).
Rumor has it that the nation's largest CDMA carrier begins rolling out its EV-DO Revision A network this Friday, starting with ten cities (Sacramento and Salt Lake City among them) and a little data card we like to call the Sierra Wireless AirCard 595.
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Instead, high-speed wireless access services can leapfrog the fiber lines directly to your computer and provide even higher rates of data transmission-- over the same CDMA network that's already in place to route cell phone traffic.
Said source also claims it has a SIM card slot, which would be fine except for BGR's assertion that 3, 2 is the oft-rumored CDMA iPhone -- you know, the one that Wall Street Journal is all but certain is coming next year.
ENGADGET: iPhone 3,2 rumored to be in near-final testing phase, cue the CDMA speculation
But for those unwilling to heed Sprint's many early warnings and make the switch to its CDMA-based Direct Connect plan before this coming January, there'll be an additional monthly penalty fee.
ENGADGET: Sprint plans $10 monthly charge for iDEN push-to-talk subs in the new year
We found pockets of LTE in Potrero Hill and SoMa, and nothing but CDMA in the Mission District -- that's two out of the three neighborhoods we checked.
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Whether the Galaxy Stellar is one of these two devices or something entirely off of the map, there's a strong indication between this, Sprint's mystery SPH-L300 and the slightly more tangible Galaxy Reverb that Samsung will leave no CDMA corner unturned in the near future.
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Indeed, docs detailing the CDMA-clad Optimus Vu is now beginning to make the rounds in Verizon's internal system -- and its intended launch date is among the trove of treasures to be found within.
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TOKYO, JAPAN, November 16, 2012 --- NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today that it has developed the world's first dual-mode small-cell base station, or femtocell, supporting 3G (W-CDMA) and LTE simultaneously for improved service coverage in indoor locations such as offices, shops and homes.
ENGADGET: NTT DoCoMo readies first dual-mode HSDPA, LTE femtocell for December
Sprint uses code division multiple access technology, or CDMA, in its cellular networks, while Nextel uses Motorola 's (nyse: MOT - news - people ) iDEN hardware.
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