DS, thanks for your tips.
As for Qcom: it's looked horrendously expensive to me for the past year or two! As it goes up and up and up and I miss out. But I have a strong fear of getting in at the top. That's exactly what I did with AOL this year (bought 170, bailed 105), and the memories still singe.
As for owning CDMA, perhaps you could clear this up for me. I thought that G3/Bluetooth/etc would obsolesce the value of the Q's CDMA license? It seems that buying Q at these levels is equivalent to betting that CDMA will be the wireless standard for all eternity. I've been to Finland, and have seen GSM do some pretty cool things :-), and I also know that new standards are on the horizon -- won't CDMA become a legacy technology at some point? Or do G3/Bluetooth/etc run on CDMA as well?
BTW, I've test-driven CDMA phones, and I'm not impressed -- those darn things drop calls all the time. At least in my experience. I'm still a luddite, using my two old AMPS analog phones -- the sound quality isn't great, and I can't surf the web, but they work anywhere, and never drop calls! :-) This is, of course, a statement about the immature stage of CDMA network buildout, and (I hope!) not anything about the CDMA technology itself.
Looking forward to your characteristically lucid explanation of these issues. Take care and sorry about the OT. |
