Open by the fact that you can put a SIM card into any GSM phone you want (as long as it has the bands) and it will work, that's a given and even T-Mobile does that so I wouldn't agree about AT&T being the most open network, and T-Mobile has Java too, so does Sprint which is CDMA. The lack of being able to use whatever CDMA phone you want on a CDMA network was definately a concern to some phone users and that is why they choose GSM networks sometimes and I think this is a scare to AT&T. I don't know if Java programs are better than Brew though except for price and availability, you can get free apps with Java and as far as I've seen with Brew on Verizon you have to pay for everything and can only get it through Verizon so he prehaps has a point with that but the other networks have Java too not just AT&T so I don't get that one.
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Pamela @ Dec 2nd 2007 6:57AM
Open by the fact that you can put a SIM card into any GSM phone you want (as long as it has the bands) and it will work, that's a given and even T-Mobile does that so I wouldn't agree about AT&T being the most open network, and T-Mobile has Java too, so does Sprint which is CDMA. The lack of being able to use whatever CDMA phone you want on a CDMA network was definately a concern to some phone users and that is why they choose GSM networks sometimes and I think this is a scare to AT&T. I don't know if Java programs are better than Brew though except for price and availability, you can get free apps with Java and as far as I've seen with Brew on Verizon you have to pay for everything and can only get it through Verizon so he prehaps has a point with that but the other networks have Java too not just AT&T so I don't get that one.