<< Why the hell wont sprint use nokia? Ive been wanting to replace my POS 6100 for months but nothing is coming down the line. >>
<< Yeah, SprintPCS' refusal to use Nokia phones is really annoying (I too want to upgrade my Nokia 6185). I've complained to them about it multiple times and answers range from "we're working on it" to "thanks for telling us about this." The Nokia reps I've talked to have said Sprint has specifically refused to carry Nokia phones. They're the only service provider I can think of that does not carry phones made from the largest (and arguably best) cell phone manufacturer in the world. Stupid. . . . >>
The reason Sprint no longer uses Nokia phones is because when they offered them, those customers that had them complained alot more about the service than those with other phones. Dropped calls & slippery signals & things along that line. I haggled a Sprint rep that came to my store (I work @ Office Depot) and he told me this information, as well as someone that works at the Sprint store (after I switched to my Samsung 8500). I love Nokia phones and I still have my 6185 in case for whatever reason my 8500 fails (but I'm willing to sell!). The Sprint rep at the store ran these tests on my Nokia and said it wouldn't complete many of the signal tests; the connections were slippery.
I hope this answers every1's question about "Why Sprint won't use Nokia". I hope that they decide to use Nokia's 3285 phone, a CDMA phone that could be used on Sprint, but it all depends on how it performs. They're constantly testing Nokias...I guess they're not up to par with the rest of their phones.
Also, I'm not sure if any1 read the article about a month back about CDMA carriers upgrading their networks later this year, but apparently once the upgrade takes place, every1 with a Nokia phone purchased earlier than about 2 months ago will have to come in for a software update for the phone. (I haven't checked the status of this recently.) Verizon considered dropping Nokias altogether b/c of that, but I guess they worked it out since they still offer them.
In that same article, they said Nokia's good with GSM (i.e. VoiceStream) phones and even TDMA (AT&T, BellSouth) phones, but CDMA was never their thing.
Wow that was a long post....
Also, FWIW, remember Sprint Spectrum? That's now called VoiceStream.