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To: qdog who wrote (3294)8/6/1997 6:32:00 AM
From: tero kuittinen   of 152472
 
qdog,

many of your posts are entertaining, some of them are informative. But you should really find out more about the foreign companies you are commenting on before you make blanket statements. Who on earth has ever said that Nokia phones are chiefly low to mid-range? The latest hit product of Nokia's was Nokia 9000 with the starting price of
1 700 US dollars. This phone has fax and e-mail capabilites, full qwerty-keyboard and www-browser. And it has been a hit. GSM has been perfectly capable of handling the e-mail and fax functions. Another recent hit product, 8110, is decidedly an upscale phone as well.
Surely you must be aware that the reason Nokia's operating profit is so much higher than Ericsson's and Motorola's is the company's image as a high tech, high end manufacturer. So even if Nokia's first CDMA entry isn't an upscale product, rest assured that the company is going to launch also that sort of product. According to the CEO, the first phone will hit the streets in a week or two.
And about those superior data transfer capabilities of CDMA: what good are they when there is no product on the market to make use of them? Nokia 9000 has been doing fax, e-mail and www for over a year now. It's a proven product that has been a commercial success. Has anyone even talked about an equivalent CDMA product? How about that 80 gram computer card that transforms any laptop into a mobile telephone? When is the CDMA equivalent going to hit the market?
As long as CDMA product development keeps dragging two or three years behind GSM, I can't see why anyone would be surprised to see Intel embracing GSM.

Tero
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