Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Move over Nokia!

After almost ten years of mobile phone usage, I switched brands from the trusty Nokia to my first Sony Ericsson phone. The reason, North America has a terrible choice of phones especially in the Nokia range. While Nokia is clearly the world leader in mobile phones, in North America, their offerings are limited.

Nokia caters a lot to the Eurpoean and Asian markets and the latest phones are often launched there. This is primarily due to the GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) technology. In North America, CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) is the big player. Another big player in the North American market is the Black Berry and these phones are used a lot here. The phones offered here in this range are a lot better and advanced than those available in Europe and Asia.

So to summarise, almost everything, in North America is opposite to what you may be used to in your part of the world.

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