AL9999
10-09-2003, 05:14 PM
Here's the main article: http://www.mobileburn.com/g.jsp?d=http://atimes.com/atimes/Korea/EJ09Dg07.html
Interesting how Nokia is still trying to take over the world with its handsets. Silly thing is there is no GSM network in Korea (they're all CDMA), making the phones useful strictly for international roaming only. On top of that, the South Korea phone providers already have roaming setups allowing you to rent phones when you need to go overseas, which makes going out of your way to buy a GSM handset all but pointless. The other big thing is that Nokia phones are far inferior to the Korean phones in terms of technology too. At this point, Nokia STILL haven't moved on to VGA cameras or 65k colour screens (they will with the 6600, but it's still not out yet and that's a specialist imaging phone anyway), and Samsung will soon have 1.3MP cameras.
It's the same situation in Japan, the other major country without a GSM network (PDC or CDMA or WCDMA only). Nokia already do the same thing there too, although their 'new' phones consist of the selection they already sell mind you, far inferior to the almost standard 1MP phones there now (I think there were at least four or five available on offer now, correct me if I'm wrong). =)
Interesting how Nokia is still trying to take over the world with its handsets. Silly thing is there is no GSM network in Korea (they're all CDMA), making the phones useful strictly for international roaming only. On top of that, the South Korea phone providers already have roaming setups allowing you to rent phones when you need to go overseas, which makes going out of your way to buy a GSM handset all but pointless. The other big thing is that Nokia phones are far inferior to the Korean phones in terms of technology too. At this point, Nokia STILL haven't moved on to VGA cameras or 65k colour screens (they will with the 6600, but it's still not out yet and that's a specialist imaging phone anyway), and Samsung will soon have 1.3MP cameras.
It's the same situation in Japan, the other major country without a GSM network (PDC or CDMA or WCDMA only). Nokia already do the same thing there too, although their 'new' phones consist of the selection they already sell mind you, far inferior to the almost standard 1MP phones there now (I think there were at least four or five available on offer now, correct me if I'm wrong). =)