Nokia was rumored to be building it, but according to the WSJ Verizon Wireless‘ first 4G handset will debut mid-2011, running on the LTE network that’s launching end of this year after Boston and Seattle guinea pigged the service.
According to the WSJ, Verizon Wireless’ first LTE phones will use dual chipsets so they’ll still be compatible with the current CDMA network. This will come months, even a year, after Sprint’s first WiMax phone, which Palm is supposedly building. [WSJ]
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In the US we have a somewhat myopic view of cell phones. We have iPhones and Blackberrys and now Androids and Nexuses for smartphones, and a whole bunch of feature phones from manufacturers like LG and Motorola and Samsung. Notably absent from most wireless stores in the U.S. are Nokia, which is odd since Nokia owns more of the global cell phone market than its next three competitors combined. Part of this discrepancy is no doubt due to the market differences between U.S. carriers and wireless carriers in the rest of the world. But a large part of this can be explained by Nokia’s sheer arrogance.
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