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Well, not only that. Nokia and Verizon have EOL'ed the Icon (Lumia 929) less than a year after release. Most of the offerings at Verizon have not received 8.1, including the entire offerings from Nokia.

Max, I am not trolling. There is a lot more that has to do with Nokia when it comes to CDMA. Let's start refreshing the entire Qualcommv Nokia by showing you the entire timeline of the issue http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL257876620080225?irpc=932 Also, let's talk about the allegations from Nokia saying Qualcomm charges too much for the licensing rights to CDMA technology, which Qualcomm legally owns as it created the technology. Nokia tried to shop around courts on this manner, and in many cases they were told the company as a whole was in danger, and offered Qualcomm over two billion dollars to settle all disputes, and finally end years of disputes in court. Qualcomm is still in business as a whole, while Nokia really never recuperated (at least in the phone manufacturing division, which was sold to Microsoft). Nokia has not been seen with good eyes by the majority of the CDMA carrier community since then. Nokia thoughr entering the market by using Verizon would helped them, and it backfired as most carriers are in line with Sprint when it comes to CDMA standards, and it has been that way for several years. The CCA agreement alone proves this clearly, as well as having certain carriers like NTelos signing new agreements which benefit both Sprint and all participating regional carriers. I am sorry if in any way I disrespected you or anyone, but Nokia/Windows Phone is a hot topic for me, especially when I have exposed a fraud from a certain website on this multiple times, and his last tactic was comparing me to a potato with earphones.

Also, Nokia demanding Apple and Samsung treatment to every CDMA carrier they negotiated with, and will not give devices to them after being released six months on Verizon. Sprint, US Cellular, C Spire, Bluegrass, United Telecom, Open Mobile de Puerto Rico, NTelos, and several others agreed to that as long as Nokia uses Qualcomm certified CDMA radios and not their homemade radios. Guess who walked out several times? Elop and company at Nokia. If Nokia wanted to "stick it" to Sprint, they would had been smart enough to get several regional CDMA carriers and US Cellular to carry Lumia devices. They failed to do so, even having help from a certain ediTROLL in chief from a certain website which considers S4GRU too Pro Sprint.

The problem has always been Nokia since they decided to manufacture unauthorized CDMA radios just to circumvent paying Qualcomm for use of patented technology in regards to CDMA. Sprint, as well as every CDMA carrier in the US selling Nokia devices noticed the unauthorized radios, which led Qualcomm to sue them. Nokia had to settle as their counter lawsuits were destined to fail, and perhaps end up becoming a division of Qualcomm. You can do a search on your search engine of your choice for Qualcomm v. Nokia Instead of Nokia fixing relations with Qualcomm CDMA carriers, Elop and company at once was Nokia's mobile manufacturing division decided to make their Lumia line pretty much GSM exclusive (which was also the story for second generation Windows Phone 7 devices), while giving Qualcomm CDMA carriers the two finger salute by only releasing the Lumia 900T for China Mobile, and later releasing the 928, 929, and 822 on Verizon, all of them with the SAME homemade CDMA radios which are still behind Qualcomm standards. The move to have a device on Sprint is of desperation by the Lumia team in order to meet the carrier unlock agreement between the FCC and CTIA, as well as being the only way to have Windows Phone devices sold on many regional CDMA carriers in the US and Puerto Rico/USVI (remember, the unlock policy is not limited to CDMA carriers making their new devices coming to their networks being able to work on GSM networks in the US), something Microsoft has miserably failed to do so by relying mostly on GSM carriers in a CDMA country.

Nokia (or should we say now Microsoft's mobile manufacturing division) was playing hardball with Sprint, US Cellular, and every regional and prepaid network on the CDMA side for years, as they demanded Apple/Samsung treatment, and use their homemade CDMA radios which were years behind Qualcomm CDMA standards currently used. Microsoft did not do any favors by neglecting this part of the mobile device community, especially knowing most lines are on CDMA networks in the US Market, especially when the Windows Phone 7 debacle after Mango (and the sudden EOL of the HTC Arrive, as it was the choice of WP7 device on the CDMA side, and there was no second generation devices for CDMA networks). How can Nokia make such demands, knowing they violated the trust of CDMA carriers by using homemade radios which were not licensed by Qualcomm. One more thing it did not help Microsoft nor Nokia was the anti-CDMA propaganda from a very popular Windows Phone website which has an editor who "stole" the hair style from a troll doll (will not say the site nor the editor's name, as both are not very liked nor favored in the Qualcomm CDMA community, besides we do not need to promote sites which their reporters and several members think S4GRU is not a reliable source of information for Sprint related topics), as well as bashing any devices which are not high end enough nor branded Nokia.

Hey everyone. I feel I have found a home here. I have followed your postings and topics for at least two years. I am one of the regulars at the facebook fanpage Sprint has (which has become a troll infested area), and I also run one of the most hated Pro Sprint group, and fanpage, which love your truly impartial reporting.