No CDMA Windows Phone 7 devices until 2011

By on Sep 17, 2010 at 7:28 AM
General September 17, 2010

Yesterday, we told you about comments made by a Verizon Wireless spokesperson that indicated the company would not be carrying a Windows Phone 7 device until 2011. In context, it seemed like a decision the company had explicitly made, however that does not appear to be the case. Speaking with CNET, Microsoft senior product manager, Greg Sullivan, said:

“For the worldwide market, the vast majority of phones are GSM phones, so we focused on GSM first and then plan to deliver an update that will have great CDMA support in the first half of 2011. That’s device availability in the first half and we’re very confident of that. That’s probably a conservative estimate.”

So, it appears as though no one will be carrying a Windows Phone 7 CDMA device. Any Sprint users, or other CDMA subscriber, disappointed by this news?

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  • Bert

    Like I said yesterday, WP7 is going to be dead on arrival. As usual, the bureaucracy at MS has bogged them down and left them unable to effectively compete with Google, Apple, and RIM.

    • F1

      MS. is sheer greed, hope this version, dies like it’s predecessors!
      Instead of wasting money and “attempting” to reinvent the wheel , if they could they would buy the “iPhone” and re-badge it as M.S. X, that is their extend of innovation!

      MS disgusts me & millions of consumers world wide!
      I currently use the now dead M.S. XPsp3 and M.S. Mobile 6.1 (a joke of an O.S.)

      Thank You

  • young hov

    Sprint needs to focus on releasing new palm hardware.. wm7 is gonna fail…

    • Knarf

      And you know this how? Didn’t you mention Apple was going to fail? I know for a fact you said Android would fail too? What I’m saying here is people out here are making accertions that based on nothing! When Win 7 succeeds are you going to comeback here and say “man, I was dead wrong!”. I doubt it. You will go on and pretend you never said anything in the first place.

      Lastly, I have both CDMA and GSM phones. GSM is far better in my none scientific opinion. I have both Verizon and T-Mobile plans. I prefer T-Mo. Like most of these things it’s what you like. If you like CDMA great! If you like GSM great! But MicroSoft is correct GSM is the world leader.

    • Kyle2dotcom

      Palm failed.

  • T Man

    Doesn’t impact me too much at this point, since I will be eligible for a yearly upgrade sometime mid next year anyway. But it is a major bummer.

  • MVTom

    You can have the GSM vs. CDMA argument all day long. The fact is that CDMA is a major technology in the U.S., the largest retail market for cell phones. GSM may be predominant in most of the rest of the world (there are other places that use CDMA other than the U.S. and China, 1/3 of the world’s population, uses another technology that is closer to CDMA than GSM), but people in those areas don’t spend the money Americans do on electronic “toys”. The U.S. Christmas market far exceeds the potential sales of the rest of the world, I don’t believe MS decided to skip that market, IMO they had no choice and are just trying to spin it their way.

    • StupendousTits

      uhhh… Iphone?

  • phone capo

    I like the direction of the new windows mobile man…been a big windows fan since 05…

  • Jered

    Boo Hoo, who cares!! No one cares about Windows phones anyway. All Mcirosoft cares about is jerking off the the cloud

    • Knarf

      Wow, you must love looking at people jerk off… no need to explain… no don’t try… we get you’re the jerk off police… I’m sure you have a jerk off badge too… I’m just saying… does this job require a GED?

  • doublejizzle

    As a Verizon customer, shame on you Microsoft. If I am not on Verizon, I would see me going to Sprint ahead of Tmobile or ATT unless I had to go to ATT for iPhone. I see they put the kin team in charge of this. This is why Android and iOS have stole so much market share. Microsoft dragging their feet on deliving to market.

    • StupendousTits

      Hmm.. so how long was it before there was a CDMA iPhone device?

  • iamajim

    No big loss; who on earth would want a Winmo product on their phone after arguing with it all day long at work and at home in their PC??

  • viper1549

    lol its not like it matters.. microsoft can only hope someone out there will care about a wm7 phone..

  • mangenius

    Fuck all of you who downranked me yesterday for saying this exact same thing

  • Leigh

    @mangenius: whoa there! Let’s keep this clean.
    @doublejizzle: they will be there soon enough, but the CDMA phones were prioritized due to the overwhelming majority of the market being GSM. MS is NOT dragging their feet. The hardwware is not ready. Contrary to some opinions, this is not about Verizon, but CDMA. Sprint can’t carry phones either yet, even though they want them now.

  • blessed1

    Totally bummed by this. Expecting late November at the latest. Pisses me off a bit. They are now forcing me into an ATT store just to play with the damn thing. Why would they not be building a 4G one right away, how would that not get people to switch??

    • Jeremyr1

      I actually think they’re holding off on the CDMA version so they can include 4G in it from the start. You see, if anyone buys a unit from AT&T in Nov or Dec then they will probably be ok with it, as AT&T won’t be rolling out their 4G until the Summer of 2011. BUT, it looks like Verizon will probably launch 4G at the beginning of 2011 (likely announcement at CES). So, I think they’re trying to avoid having people buy a 3G phone in Nov/Dec, only to find 4G phones as of Jan.

      VZW is the one who screwed this up, in my opinion. They should have hit an internal deadline to go live in Nov for 4G, as they have now lost the entire holiday season with possible 4G phones AND they had this timing issue with WP7.

    • not about cdma

      How could it be about CDMA? Even though it failed they did just write the Kin software for CDMA on Verizon. So they should have had the code to make this happen.

      I think this whole no CDMA until 2011 is a combiniation of MS, Verizon, and Sprint. They can all take a flying leap.

      Ignoring half the US market for cell phones is stupid.

      • bob

        ahem.. you’re talking about microsoft here. are you new?

  • bob

    never would be soon enough…

  • Turbocooper

    I love this phone!! Well maybe I love this phone…haha. I just saw the WP7 Games Full Launch List!! Not only that I have ATT so im already in the clear…lol. Just gotta work up the nerve to give up my Nexus One….

  • roy

    US only Zune support.
    US only xbox support.
    Everywhere but the us cell support.
    And I’ve been waiting on this since my HTC vogue.

  • patrick

    Not the least bit interested in this product line. Does not speak to me at all. The os looks so generic and not in a good way. I wonder how the battery life is going to be with this potential resource hog.I mean from the genius I have seen, since you really don’t have many options for shortcuts, you are hitting three buttons when you could just hit one, so screen time could eat the battery.

  • mikw

    @bob,

    ya never know

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • Sucka_free

    No disappointment…it sounds like Microsoft…

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