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To: carranza2 who wrote (145374)	10/2/2006 3:33:50 PM
From: GPS Info	Read Replies (2) of 152472

Does the NOK license with Trimble make Snaptrack's IPR irrelevant to NOK? My conjecture is no, but that is a question that I have been thinking about for the last several weeks. I have an incomplete post on that topic sitting on my computer. I had too many unanswered questions to follow up on. As an outline, I’ll say that that Qualcomm has a patent-lock on assisted-GPS. A mobile phone can still get a GPS fix outdoors with no need to infringe on any Qualcomm patents. These types of unassisted fixes will be much poorer in quality, but Nokia can still claim that they’re providing the same capabilities as Qualcomm. I expect this spin in the upcoming months. Look for “A-GPS” versus “GPS location-based services.” In my mind, the type of data that are transferred is critical – there will be many ways to provide “assistance,” but the best ways are already spoken for. I reviewed the SnapTrack patent that is a part of the suit. In the distant past, I stated that there were no GSM phones that used A-GPS, but I seem to have found some press releases that suggest otherwise; however, these phones are not currently being deployed. I’m guessing (really guessing) that the GSM manufactures are waiting for the outcome of the suits before offering GSM/WCMDA/A-GPS phones. Because of this guess, I think that the POS need to lower royalties before everyone and their brother begins paying Qualcomm to use A-GPS for location-based services. It’s important to remember that unassisted GPS will also provide many capabilities for location-based services. This is what Nokia will get from Trimble, if anything at all. OK, that’s two more cents; 48 cents left.

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