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To: TobagoJack who wrote (56758)12/2/2004 2:22:55 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
<... i cannot get at all excited about vapor-ware enabled phantom gadgets

3G is in nowheresville and no one misses it>

Of course Jay. Not many people miss things which they haven't yet experienced. It's only after they have used them for a while, or seen others using them, that they realize that the thing is actually a need, not a want.

You'll just have to wait until somebody figures out that selling 3G services in Hong Kong is a good idea.

3G is not at all a solution looking for a problem. As you can see: 3gtoday.com Bear in mind that it is only during 2004 that W-CDMA became good enough to start selling seriously. It was only at the beginning of 2004 that 1xEV-DO got going in a robust way.

<the thought of paying telephone charges to view video while commuting to the office > is indeed plain silly. But QUALCOMM's MediaFLO will enable very low cost viewing. Perhaps it will be available at no charge, funded by advertising, in the same way as normal tv.

On-line games would be of little interest on micro-screens. But Microvision microvision.com might make things more interesting with 3D viewing - actual 3D viewing, not the normal "3D" games you are used to. Those would be a LOT of fun. That's for the future.

Mqurice
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