First off, you have no idea what you are talking about, Sprints and Verizons CDMA is 3G. 3G is nothing more than 3rd generation wireless. Secondly, how will CDMA “cripple the phone too much”? I see a few misinformed folks posting ignorant comments, EVDO Rev-A (which is based on CDMA2000) is capable of simultaneous voice/data. Sprint will not enable it, due the fact the voice calls show up as data. Sprints billing system has no way of differentiating the voice from data when going over data. Sprints QChat (push to talk) uses voice over data. Last year Qualcom did a successful demonstration of simultaneous voice/data over EVDO Rev-A, to prove it is possible. EVDO Rev-O does not allow voice/data at the same time. Currently,during a call Sprint users can send and receive SMS, can receive email and since the Palm Pre is the first Sprint device with true MMS (uses SMS gateway), the Pre can send and receive MMS during a call. Lastly, Verizon will integrate EVDO Rev-B with their LTE, there will be areas without an LTE signal. CDMA is dead!!!

Oh…pardon my lapse of tech know how, LOL

I surely did forget that CDMA does not allow simultaneous voice and data. And that would be a very big limitation for the iPhone.

Well here’s to hoping they can spread the iPhone love sometime soon…

I don’t think you will ever see a CDMA variant. CDMA just can’t do what GSM and 3G can do and it would cripple the phone too much.

Verizon will have LTE before ATT will. http://www.executivebrief.com/news/from-cdma-to-lte-verizon-adopts-the-newest-wireless-technology/

I expect the next iPhone will have an LTE capable chipset (with backward compatibility to Edge and 3G/HSPDA).

But not CDMA. Its dead Jim.

So 1 in 6 people with iPhone OS are buying the 3G S.

Those are two disassociated facts, that don’t even pertain to the same population of users.

1 Million 3Gs users ALL got version 3.0. They didn’t upgrade. I’d love to see a breakdown of these by how many were first time iPhone users, how many were the 2G users, and how many were Rene Richie. (3G users eating their EFT penalty on un-expired contracts).

There have been 17-20 million iphones sold.

So far, ONLY 6 million of these have been upgraded. Less than 1/3rd.

This is in line with my expectations that there is a hard core of technoids that jump on every upgrade, and a much larger core of people who might get around to syncing their phones once every 6 months, if ever. They just use it as a phone.

Yeah, they just went with the largest carrier at the time I guess.

Well time will only tell, maybe next year will be the year of the iPhone on multiple carriers in the US