Windows Phone 7 for GSM only ?

Technology News, Windows Phone 7 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 today. "Even Microsoft doesn't have unlimited resources. We had to prioritize doing fewer things, really, really well."
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.Technology News

as seen here, will go on sale initially only on carriers that use the GSM standard, such as AT&T and T-Mobile.
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"For the worldwide market, the vast majority of phones are GSM phones, so we focused on GSM first and then plan to deliver an update that will have great CDMA support in the first half of 2011," Sullivan said. "That's device availability in the first half and we're very confident of that. That's probably a conservative estimate." Technology News


The decision to go public about the CDMA delay follows a comment from Verizon Wireless that it would not have phones running the operating system this year. Because Microsoft has delayed the CDMA version, that means Windows Phone 7 also won't be running on Sprint this year, leaving AT&T and T-Mobile as the major potential U.S. launch partners. AT&T has talked about its plans to be part of the Windows Phone 7 launch. Sullivan declined to say if T-Mobile would have devices at launch.Thats Technology News