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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM)
QCOM 170.90-1.3%Nov 7 3:59 PM EST

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To: Renby Cage who wrote (13926)8/19/1998 8:29:00 AM
From: tero kuittinen  Read Replies (3) of 152472
 
Hmmm... that was fascinating in some warped kind of way... some of the verisimilitude was lost when you consistently misspelled her name... that's I, not E, if it's a Finnish name.
The problem with Qualcomm's technology, of course, it's the way it fails to live up to the world class hype. Wall Street Journal: GSM has better voice quality than CDMA. Businessweek: Nokia's 6100 series is the hottest phone in USA. Forbes: Qualcomm is not competitive in wideband-CDMA and IS-95 has benefited from a nationalistic bias.
It's not like even American commentators were bowled over by Qcom's technology. I find it strange that CDMA phones are trailing GSM phones so badly in key specs like weight, stand-by time, voice quality, design, etc... yet Qualcomm is still placidly continuing its hypefest about "technological superiority". Couldn't they visit some retail outlet for a reality check? The customers will.

Tero
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