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Yeah... Being ancient technology, the carriers have had more time to put towers everywhere, thus giving better coverage.

However, you still can't do data and voice at the same time.



What are you talking about? GSM dates back to the mid 1980s and the first spec was published in 1991. The first mobile phone CDMA standard didn't come into play until 1995.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IS-95


I'm been curious about this, it seems they can can do it over SVDO, but for some reason only HTC seems to actually support this.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1012752.




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