No CDMA Windows Phone 7 devices until first half 2011

“When Windows Phone 7 arrives later this year, it will be sold globally, but only for GSM networks,” Ina Fried reports for CNET. “Microsoft has opted to delay until next year the CDMA version as it works to finish work on its major rewrite of its phone operating system. ‘We had to make some trade-offs,” senior product manager Greg Sullivan told CNET.'”

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MacDailyNews Take: Yeah, some trade-offs. Trade-offs like no “cut, copy, and paste,” no third-party multitasking, and no tethering support, to name a few more.

Fried reports, “The company made the decision to delay the CDMA version earlier this year but had declined to publicly confirm it until now. While GSM is much more widely used in Europe, the decision means that Windows Phone 7 won’t be available on two of the four major U.S. networks at launch–Sprint and Verizon.”

“Microsoft is slated to tout Windows Phone 7 at an October 11 ‘open house’ event in New York, though devices won’t immediately be available and will instead trickle out as various hardware makers and carriers are ready to start selling them,” Fried reports.

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MacDailyNews Take: Again, bring it on, Kinboys! The more confusion, false starts, and dead end disasters there are out there, the better it is for Apple. People want consistency, reliability, and the assurance that the company making their device/OS will be doing so for many, many years. Only Apple can really offer those things. Buyers do not want fragmentation, superfluous platforms, empty promises, and risk.