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Old 10-22-2009, 04:50 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Lemurion View Post
I never understood why they went CDMA in the first place - they were going to have to produce a GSM version eventually so why not start with GSM?
I assume they went to all the carriers and got the best deal with Sprint, who use CDMA (as does Verizon iirc).

Considering that they started selling Kindles in November 2007, they probably didn't know for sure how the international aspect was going to shake out at first. Or maybe they knew (gambled?) ahead of time that switching to GSM would be quick, though I for one assumed it would take more than a week....
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