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To: Ruffian who wrote (3092)	9/14/2000 3:28:05 AM
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This is the results of marketing hype meeting technical incompetence. No wonder they are finally getting rid of Mr. Armstrong. The king has no clothes. Let the people stand up and shout "The king has no clothes". Then open up that Manhattan window, lean out and shout "I'm an AT&T shareholder and I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more". Loud enought that they can hear it in their country clubs down in Jersey. Lean out and shout "I'm a One Rate customer and my phone doesn't work. I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more". How can EDGE, which is not reduced to a chipset yet and takes an entire new coding scheme over the TDMA waveform be in any way competitive with HDR, which takes EXACTLY the same chipset, EXACTLY the same radio, adds a variant of a viterbi decoder which takes about an extra 10-15mW in battery power? How can anyone project that it can be ANYWHERE close to competitive to HDR? I suppose that they are not following the GPRS crap with FRance Telecom either, eh? That my friends is the double breasted suits with the red suspender marketing crowd who keep finding ways to get the Wall Street Journal to publish rubbish about Irwin spouting off hype. In less than 6 months, there will be a PRODUCTION capable HDR chip which runs at less than 100 mW at full 2.4 MBPS speeds. No more power in the radio, no more power in the power amp, no more power in the DSP circuits. With a production capable phone at less than 90 gms and still keeps relatively the same battery life. I await ANY EDGE data to show that someone can do the same in a production environment in less than 1 year from now at the same battery power and performance as they get from the CDMA voice system. PERIOD.

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