AOSP and CDMA

JBQ
June 2013

"There are 3 aspects that have been causing difficulty with CDMA devices in AOSP:

-each device is specific to one network, and instead of using a standard type of SIM card like in GSM networks the way each CDMA device registers with its network is proprietary.

-the CDMA devices that have been supported in AOSP each had an additional network bolted on the side (WiMAX in one case, LTE in the other two), and in each case the interaction between the CDMA network and the other network has been proprietary.

-the proprietary components for these 2 aspects above have typically been less isolated and less portable than the other proprietary hardware-specific files that allow AOSP code to run on actual hardware, and that makes them unsuitable for several processes."