GSM copies CDMA

Until a month ago, the ball game of CDMA and GSM phones was different. Earlier GSM phones used to find their way to the retail shops almost 2 weeks before the official launch. But now slowly and steadily, GSM players are following the footprints of CDMA players.
Footprints of CDMA players? Yes, I think CDMA players have specialised in launching phones that are not even seen in the stores for at least a month, after the official launch. This was the case with Tata Indicom's Moto Q (which is still not available in the stores after 6 months of the launch, thought you can get it on a day's notice), Samsung Max( on Reliance Communication and Tata Indicom both), Reliance's BlackBerry 8830 World Edition and many such models. And now Nokia and LG are following the same trend.
In the month of December, both these players, launched their high profile GSM phones within a few days of each other. Nokia organised a navigation drive to unveil 6110 and LG roped in Deepika Padukone for its second 5.0-megapixel device Viewty. But even after two weeks of the launch the phones were nowhere in the market. Nokia's Navigator is still available at official stores now but Viewty is still not out.
The rationale for the existence of the device in the market before the launch was to study the consumers response. But now, it seems that companies just want to create hype.