but you still cannot check your email or do the closed captionaing if needed while in a call and that can be importent to those of us who are deaf or deaf blind.
S On Jan 13, 2011, at 8:48 AM, Scott Granados wrote: > Actually that's a pretty ignorant comment. > > CDMA has lots of advantages over GSM. First, CDMA has power adaptation. > This means if you're near the cell or in clear range the transmitter uses > less output than say in low signal settings. The cell tower also has this > funtionality. > > You can use fewer towers, CDMA has much better propegation characteristics > than GSM and while the cost of a GSM cell is lower than CDMA the higher > number of Cell sites required by GSM more than offsets any cost increase by > the CDMA gear. > > CDMA has better priority control. This means emergency services can use CDMA > and have a higher call priority than say average users so that in the event > of natural disasters or public emergency the first responder calls will > complete ahead of average users. > > CDMA cell hand off is more efficient. This means that you tend to drop your > session less swapping cells than with GSM. > > Latest revisions of CDMA support sim cards called ROOM cards so you can swap > phones easily. (not available in the US yet to my knowledge) > > CDMA call quality is far better than the current GSM / UMTS standard. More > CODECS are available and unlike GSM take advantage of variable bit rate > technology. Look at EVRC or SMV to learn more about this. > > It's not as cut and dry as you'd make it.:) > > On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:41 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > >> God! sounds crap! Why the hell would anyone want CDMA then? God bless the >> french for inventing GSM, who invented CDMA? So if you were on a phone >> call, would you not receive push notifications until you hung up the call? >> On 13 Jan 2011, at 08:28, Sarah Alawami wrote: >> >>> No worries. I'm learning too. CDMA only 1 signal or data stream can get in >>> at a time so let's say you are deaf and you make a phone call. that's a >>> data stream. your captioning software is another. that cannot work as >>> that's 2 data streams. >>> >>> on a gsm network I can have my email, my captioning program, my twitter, my >>> texts and my phone call running and no issues as long as the network does >>> not mind. lol! >>> >>> S >>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 11:44 PM, Chris Moore wrote: >>> >>>> Sorry for coming across a bit thick here. But firstly I am unable to open >>>> that URL to read the article and secondly we don't have CDMA over here in >>>> the UK. Why do CDMA phones cause problems for users who are hard of >>>> hearing? Would using something like a Phonak Bluetooth streamer get >>>> around the issue? What are the advantages of CDMA over GSM? >>>> >>>> Chris >>>> On 13 Jan 2011, at 04:16, Ricardo Walker wrote: >>>> >>>>> Why would they be on a CDMA network in the first place then? If I was >>>>> hard of hearing, I would find this to be a big deal and would do >>>>> research. And you have 30 days to get out of your contract so, the blame >>>>> would be on them if their stuck in a contract on a carrier that uses CDMA. >>>>> >>>>> JMO >>>>> >>>>> Ricardo Walker >>>>> rwalker...@gmail.com >>>>> Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 >>>>> Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 11:06 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> lol. I'm not the one that came up with the subject line but what about >>>>>> those that cannot afford to switch as they are locked in to a contract. >>>>>> I'm just surprised that no one discovered it until now. I'm not hard of >>>>>> hearing at all, Ok maybe a bit, but yeah I guess using an app on VZ that >>>>>> would alow closed captionaing on the iphone during a phone call would be >>>>>> close to impossibil. >>>>>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 7:31 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I don't mean to sound like a jerk but, what do you mean? This has >>>>>>> always been the case for CDMA. Its not exclusive to the Verizon >>>>>>> iPhone. So why would something which is the status quo be impact full? >>>>>>> The hard of hearing will do what they been doing, use GSM until LTE is >>>>>>> fully deployed. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Ricardo Walker >>>>>>> rwalker...@gmail.com >>>>>>> Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 >>>>>>> Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 6:12 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> How will this impact those of us with hearing troubles? read more: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> http://ow.ly/3COMr >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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