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It's pretty sad out in CDMA land if you're a fan of the bar or slider form factor. Between Sprint (no phones) or Verizon (all phones from Samsung, LG, Motorola, or Pantech; all of them assimilated by the sluggish red UI Borg), you can barely find two bar or slider form factors. The Chocolate VX8500 (that iPod-knockoff abortion of a user interface) is about your only bar/slider in the CDMA realm, and of course you can't just get any compatible phone for them to activate.

My current phone is a Nokia 6015i on Verizon, but I'm contemplating jumping over to T-Mobile and making them activate a RIZR (when, or if, it ever gets officially released, and the asking price takes a nosedive). I just don't like clamshells; they're annoying to hold for extended periods of time.

I miss you, CDMA candybar.]]>Dec 10th 2006 12:04PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/10/nokia-unveils-low-end-1325-1265-handsets-for-international-mar/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/12/10/nokia-unveils-low-end-1325-1265-handsets-for-international-mar/
So is Nokia out of the CDMA game or not?

Considering one of the main reasons Nokia stated for leaving CDMA in house development was that CDMA handsets were to expensive to produce to make it worth while to capitalize on the developing markets with ultra cheap phones so it's quite strange for Nokia to be launching what appear to be two in house designed ultra cheap CDMA phones.

Nokia. Here's what you need to do. Make up your mind and stick with it and play nice with Qualcomm so you can have those super cool 3G CDMA chipsets that are all the rage these days. ]]>Dec 10th 2006 1:50PM