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To: slacker711 who wrote (1906)	1/10/2002 2:41:00 PM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) of 9255

Slacker, << Maybe....but the motive could be to simply try and get W-CDMA working well as quickly as possible. The handsets that Docomo is selling have absolutely terrible standby times (55 hours). I think they expect to get to 100 hours by the end of this year....which still is probably subpar in markets that are used to 200+ hours of standby. >> I've heard several people comment on the effect of asynchronous operation on standby battery life - particularly related to DoCoMo (including comments by some "expert" theorists that aren't the least bit qualified to talk to the issue). Clark Hare (not in the category I describe above) commented here: Message 16222138 One of the other individuals was Joe Barrett of Nokia speaking at a technology conference about 3 months ago (webcast no longer available). There was a mobile chipset roundtable at that same conference the day before Joe presented and Qualcomm had also presented the previous day. Joe responded to a specific question about WCDMA battery life, and the questioner alluded to the NEC handsets, and asynchronous operation, and statements made in other sessions of the conference. Joe's response (similar to others I've heard) was that one of the reasons for the poor battery performance of The NEC handset was an extremely low level of integration in the NEC handsets which are a single step up from prototypes. You might recall that the early Motorola GPRS handsets ) - essentially modified 2G GSM handsets - had exceptionally poor battery life, but it appears that with GPRS handsets delivering today, battery life is not in issue. I still suspect a motive which benefits Qualcomm (which is fine by me <g>) above and beyond just getting it working as quickly and as well as it possibly can, which they sure as heck need to have happen. I kind of suspect that if synchronous operation (in addition to asynch) is introduced into networks that might otherwise deploy initially as asynch only, that Qualcomm chipsets might have an advantage they don't otherwise enjoy. I'm still wondering who the target audience for the whitepaper is and what the strategy behind it really is. Maybe (for once <g>) they have a solid strategy to back up the whitepaper. That would be refreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeshing. - Eric -

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