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> This leads me to believe that there must only be chips that support one or the other.

IIRC, Qualcomm are preparing the very first baseband/radio chip(s) that can support both. I believe it's a soft-radio, so you can reprogram it for whichever frequencies and protocols you need to support.

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So, could this also support CDMA in addition? That would be awesome if we could make it to the point where phone don't have to be 'one or the other' anymore.

That would still depend on Verizon letting you use a phone they didn't sell you, without a crippled branded OS and locked hardware. The Droid is the first un-fucked-with phone they've ever sold.

They've promised some 'open network' changes, but the most that's come out of that is the ability to use data cards that come built-in to laptops.

True, but Verizon isn't the only CDMA carrier.

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