Kind of a bummer for Verizon and Sprint customers who were hoping to have one of those new Windows Phone 7 devices in time for the holidays.
Initial reports indicate that Microsoft will delay the launch of an OS that will support CDMA technology in order to focus on GSM. This is probably for good reason as CDMA is widely used in the United States, but not much at all beyond that. GSM is the predominate technology overseas and in other foreign countries.
That being said, AT&T and T-Mobile would be the first to offer the devices, while Spring and Verizon customers will have to wait till sometime in 2011, when CDMA support is rumored to be made available.
"We had to make some trade-offs," senior product manager Greg Sullivan told CNET today. "Even Microsoft doesn’t have unlimited resources. We had to prioritize doing fewer things, really, really well." (Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20016752-56.html#ixzz102lPKtPl)