Windows Phone Thoughts: Verizon Delays 1xEV-DO, CDMA XDA III Rollout

"Internal documents from Verizon show that their EV-DO expansion plans called for their next deployments to be full coverage of the Bay Area (San Francisco region) as well as the Sacramento valley. This would have corresponded with the launch of the LG VX8000 and XDA III EV-DO handsets. However, Verizon has decided to halt deployment of EV-DO in both areas, and is considering delaying the launch of both handsets. Verizon cites internally the lack of necessary resources in both tower equipment (shortages in supply), as well as shortage of spectrum necessary to implement EV-DO over the existing 1xRTT network."

I know some of you have been asking about the CDMA XDA III (otherwise known as the HTC Harrier), and here's the scoop from Verizon's side. :cry: The one good tidbit is that the article hints that the XDA III could be reprogrammed and use 1xRTT for now. It's unclear whether they would do this, and if so whether it would feature upward upgradeability to 1xEV-DO. I'd definitely want my next Pocket PC phone to support true 3G bandwidths -- that would revolutionize its use. 8) (And for those of you who are on Sprint - I've heard nothing. :|)