Originally Posted by jimfraser

The major issue with Bold on Verizon is that any version of Bold out there now is a gsm device. It will take a major hardware revision to make it work on a CDMA network like Verizon. Similarly Verizon's 3g network is incompatible with AT&Ts and any other gsm based network.
I believe that the Bold can be unlocked so that it will work with a sim card from any gsm network like T-Mobile and most other non-CDMA based networks which means most networks around the world.
This doesn't mean that RIM does not have its engineers working on hardware changes so that the Bold will eventually be issued in a CDMA compatable format, but I cannot think that it is a priority at the moment with the soon to be introduced Storm, with its iphone like touch screen, which will only work, for now, on CDMA based networks, like Verizon. Gsm based networks like AT&T and T-Mobile will be out of luck with the Storm, at leaset until a gsm version is released.