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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (3317)	8/6/1997 1:23:00 PM
From: qdog	of 152472

Pall; drape with a black cloud. As I said I'm keenly aware of who Nokia is and have a small stake in stock (200 shares). However they are producing their own ASIC's for CDMA. Where as QCOM ASIC's have been around for a over a year. To say that they are good in one technology and will translate that success into another isn't wise. You again are comparing apples and oranges. My first generation phone gets the standby time and talk time of all others. Gee, I quess it has something to do with battery capacity. Go to Nokia webiste and if you use the biggest battery and are talking near the cellsite you will get X hrs of talk (THEIR WEBSITE). What are the mAh of teh respective batteries in question. 600, 1000, 1200, 1300? You expect me to believe that a 600 mAh will get 5 hrs talk time???? Or is the truth that is accomplished with a 1300 mAh battery. You expect me to believe, a BSEE, to believe that 5 hr talk time is at the furthest useable distances from a cellsite or is it accomplished near that site when you are transmitting the least amount ot power? This smells of the stereo spec wars of my youth. "My Pioneer $300 reciever has better X spec's vs. your MacIntosh $1500 System, Ha !!" "Care to put them side by side and let's test them for spec's" "CAre to guess who's equipment will be working 20 years form now or who has a better resell value." Then there are naive consumers that will believe once "claims". Is Nokia and Ericsson going to address the issue of excess heat that their phones generate to the discomfort of the user? That is an issue and bigtime selling point. That was something a consumer complain the other day about (Ericsson phone). My QCOM phone is warm after 45 min's use inside my house or driving down the highway inside my car. The 9000 is an interesting product, but not new to the US market, I'm afraid. What it does is integrate the phone into the unit. Also the per min charges in the US and Europe change the complexion of consumer acceptance. Newton anyone? Plam Pilot anyone? Do these devices supplant a $3500 laptop? Are tehy building plug in modems for wireless application for laptops today? Do they have a RJ-11 jack on them for 2500 sets and to use wireline instead of wireless? Again it's a question of what the IS manger is looking for and it is speed. Yeah right on the W-CDMA third generation nonsense. I forgot QCOM doesn't have true CDMA today, it's narrow. If a 1.25 Mhz channel is narrow what does that make a 30 or 50 Khz channel? IDC already has a working system at 5 Mhz. LU and NT already have deployed CDMA infrastucture that works fine. Think LU just going to play dead in this 3rd Gen war? BTW NTT already said that 3rd gen will be backward compatible to IS-95 last month. I guess that is why Ericsson team up with Nokia, seeing how Nokia licensed the technology from QCOM.

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