Though I like the old logos of both companies better then the new one (particularly the Alcatel logo) they are one company now and I doubt they'll be marketing products with old branding in a new market.
If they are anything like Alcatel's phones in Europe - pass. They haven't come up with anything interesting in years.
I'm guessing the CDMA phones would be courtesy of the Lucent half of Alcatel-Lucent as Alcatel on it's own never made a CDMA phone. I'm also guessing of the 20 handsets that maybe two will be CDMA as they are targeting small carriers like Cricket, Metro PCS, Alltel etc. instead of Sprint and Verizon.
Of the 20 proposed handsets I'd be surprised to see 10 actually picked up. Which will undoubtedly cause Alcatel-Lucent to flee the North American mobile handset market like so many others newcomers before them.
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Wouldn't those be Alcatel-Lucent phones now?
Though I like the old logos of both companies better then the new one (particularly the Alcatel logo) they are one company now and I doubt they'll be marketing products with old branding in a new market.
If they are anything like Alcatel's phones in Europe - pass. They haven't come up with anything interesting in years.
I'm guessing the CDMA phones would be courtesy of the Lucent half of Alcatel-Lucent as Alcatel on it's own never made a CDMA phone. I'm also guessing of the 20 handsets that maybe two will be CDMA as they are targeting small carriers like Cricket, Metro PCS, Alltel etc. instead of Sprint and Verizon.
Of the 20 proposed handsets I'd be surprised to see 10 actually picked up. Which will undoubtedly cause Alcatel-Lucent to flee the North American mobile handset market like so many others newcomers before them.