When your Verizon handset sees a CDMA carrier, it will lock onto that system and prevent you from roaming onto another provider, even if the CDMA carrier does not offer data capability, which means emails and attachments.

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Samsung has combined a full-color Palm operating system device with a code division multiple access (CDMA) phone.

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He said Dell's customers are telling the company they prefer the idea of mobile Internet access via wireless notebook computers, using technology such as the Bluetooth and 802.11 standards as well as emerging wireless telecommunications technology such as GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), wideband CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) and UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System).

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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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Earlier standards wars mean Europe has phones that work on a system called GSM, while U.S. phones run on GSM, plus TDMA and CDMA. Before the new standard, wireless data had still other incompatible designs and only 700, 000 users in the U.S. "Diplomacy is harder than technology, " says Rossman.

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