Verizon stores receiving shipments of Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Eris
0. phoneArena posted on 01 Nov 2009, 05:11
Maybe there's no need to be there at 6am, as Verizon stores get a large shipment of Android phones...
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26. spruce posted on 01 Nov 2009, 21:36 0 0
It's not as simple as nh1234 suggests. In fact most places in China have only GSM service, while some, in particular the larger cities, have both CDMA and GSM. If you bore down from nh1234's page tohttp://b2b.vzw.com/internation
al/Roaming/Asia-Pacific/China.html you'll see that Verizon's map for all of China shows only GSM service. (They don't seem to have a mechanism for displaying places with both CDMA and GSM.) Sprint's site (http://www1.sprintpcs.com/explore/coverage/internationalroaming/Search.jsp - search for China) does a much better job of breaking down exactly what systems and speeds are available in every city. I've used my Sprint CDMA phone in Beijing and Shanghai but it's not usable in many other places. I'm not certain that the CDMA areas Sprint identifies are all available to Verizon CDMA phones, but clearly both the Verizon and Sprint sites contradict the claim that the CDMA Droid would generally work in China.
27. vzw fanman posted on 01 Nov 2009, 21:38 0 0
hmmm. bro i think 2 people already answered your question. probably certain parts. but as they said gsm is more prevalent in foreign countries.
30. Kiltlifter posted on 02 Nov 2009, 04:29 0 0
RJT... A phone doesn't need to be labeled global to work in other countries. CDMA phones that aren't labeled global which work in CDMA networks that operate on the same frequencies. New Zealand, parts of Australia, South Korea, Japan, Mexico, Mainland China, parts of South America, and Canada will work with ALL VERIZON PHONES! Don't need to have global in the name. GLOBAL UMTS/GSM/CDMA hybrids are labeled GLOBAL becuase they will work EVERYWHERE!
31. spruce posted on 02 Nov 2009, 06:09 0 0
Just wish I could put off my next trip until the Motorola Zeppelin appears - reportedly the first Android world phone.
33. jundibasam posted on 02 Nov 2009, 11:19 0 0
its not entirely accurate either. cdma may be offered in in china, south america, etc, but i know at least in south america cdma will only give you voice coverage. You will still need a Quad band GSM or GSM/CDMA device to use data in south america, which i travel to about 2-3 times a year. I don't know about the other places, but as everyone on here suggests, call vzw global support to check which CDMA services are available in china and other places to be sure. Also, CDMA actually covers as large of a percentage of the population as GSM, although most places with CDMA also have GSM (China, India, U.S., Indonesia, and South America). The only places that are GSM-only (no CDMA) are all of Europe, Russia, parts of Africa and Asia.
8. vzwman posted on 01 Nov 2009, 11:57 0 0
OK here is my update :) i have a appointment on the 6th @ 8:30am to receive my droid store location if anyone is interested 13623 S Dixie Hwy Ste 147 Miami, FL 33176 (305) 232-7780 supposedly this store is going to have a large number of droids in stock (for anyone that lives in south miami)
11. artz1986 posted on 01 Nov 2009, 15:55 0 0
Dixie Highway..aww man it's been a min since I heard or even read anyone mention that road [home]...
19. vzwman posted on 01 Nov 2009, 19:56 0 0
i wounder if they are going to have a droid for us to play with in vzwstores just to see what we are buying when we go visit on the 6th
32. vzsalesrep posted on 02 Nov 2009, 07:59 0 0
I work at one of the top 10 busiest stores in the NorthEast area and we are getting 232 HTC droids and 300 Moto Droids in today's shipment
