*Triple Mode, Dual Band, Where do we go from here? Plus CrudeTrade.* The mode meanings are jumbled. Samsung's is NOT triple mode. It is dual mode. It is also dual band. It has two modes = cdmaOne and AMPS. It has two bands in cdmaOne mode = 800 and 1900. It is single band in AMPS. Band = frequency. Mode = GSM, TDMA, cdmaOne, Amps, etc.
They say:
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An example of the latter is the SCH-2500 tri-mode phone. While both Nokia Corp. and L.M. Ericsson make tri-mode phones for Time Division Multiple Access networks, offered by AT&T Wireless Services Inc. with its Digital One Rate plan, no CDMA manufacturer matched them until now.
The SCH-2500 can roam between CDMA 800 MHz, 1900 MHz and Advanced Mobile Phone Service 800 MHz networks, the company said.
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The SCH-2500 has only got two modes! Not three. It is NOT tri-mode. Of course meanings of words do change or become ambiguous and maybe that's what's going to happen. Each frequency or mode will be counted as a mode, so if we get multiband cdmaOne handsets, we might have dualmode, trimode, quadrimode, quintuplemode [pentagonomode for military applications], sexmode [very popular], septicemiamode [for those sick of it all], octopusmode [for people who have to keep many balls in the air], commode [for the aged].
Even though engineers will still think of them as being single mode = cdmaOne. People do like to be high mana and many modes would confer some high status, like so many horsepower in a car.
When we get spectrum hunting handsets software radio handsets, then we can forget about the numbers as it will be like arguing how many roads your boat can take from Hawaii to Asia. You just point your boat in any direction.
Every 'engineering' mode has a royalty cost. Let's hope there are many many modes in each handset so that even if people never use their cdmaOne mode because they live in Europe but own a handset with cdmaOne mode in case they take a trip to the USA, Q! will collect a royalty on the wholesale price of the whole handset. With a bit of luck, Nokia will sell hundreds of millions of trimode handsets with cdmaOne as one of them. I wonder if we will really be so lucky.
Mqurice
PS: Meanwhile, the USA is being pathetic. Sheep farmers in the USA are whining like 747s because New Zealand is producing high quality lamb products which some Americans like to buy in preference to USA produced sheep meat. So the USA International Trade Commission is fixin' to head New Zealand sheep farmers off at the pass by imposing import restrictions, or charging tariffs high enough to cut imports.
Where are Charlene Barshefsky and Xena Albright?
So any of you who enjoy good quality lamb won't be allowed to buy it! You denizens of the Land of the Free and Brave! So New Zealand sheep farmers will not be able to afford to buy cdmaOne handsets. So you investors in Qualcomm will make less money.
Struggle if you will to imagine what would happen if every producer outside the USA who sold something to the USA was 'headed off at the pass'. None of them would have any money to buy stuff from the USA would they! So you guys would have to eat scungey sheep produced by some Iowa cartel. You'd have to drive a Chrysler YankTank instead of a Lexus and I can tell you there are a LOT of people in San Diego tooling around in a Lexus. You wouldn't be able to drive Mercedes or BMW. $ill Gates would have to hand back his Ferraris.
The fanatics wouldn't even allow foreign airlines to land in the USA because they would take business away from American Airlines and PanAm who treat their customers with tender loving care. So Disneyland would go out of business because nobody could afford to go there from overseas.
Well, some of you will get the picture.
So next time you want to wrap yourselves in the Stars and Stripes and whine like a 747 that Japan won't open their borders to those wonderful American left hand drive cars which barely fit on a motorway let along the local byways which are barely suitable for Mini Minors, don't do it loudly enough to disturb me please.
When the EU is cutting off unbent bananas, allowing only GSM cellphones and no beer other than that grown with approved hops in suitable Bavarian soil with the right foam head on it, you'll know you are in good company.
Charlene and Xena are being given the run around! They'll be laughed out of town when they whine in on a 747, first class, hectoring and lecturing other countries that they should be 'Free Trade' as in 'Back in the USSA'. The USA is NOT in favour of Free Trade, despite many of you being brainwashed into such naive belief.
I wonder how Iran/Russia and oil exports are coming along. Oil seems to be dropping again. That'll be making some Big Oil balance sheets look ugly. They'll be phoning Bill Clinton telling him how there is a VERY serious threat from Iran with the Weapons of Mass Destruction which Russia has been sending them which could be used against Russia any time now. Iranian oil exports must be stopped until they comply with an inspection regime from UNSCOM, who have got big salaries but nothing to inspect at the moment.
eia.doe.gov
Oooops, just checked and West Texas is down to pretty much the low again. Some of the Texan/Arkansawan good ole boys will be getting their 6 shooters out and firin' a few rounds at anyone who looks like causin' it to be so cheap. Lucky for us we just make sheeps!
"Hey, lookit those Iranian varmints - they took Americans hostage in the USA Embassy and now they are cuttin' the price of oil and doin' us in the eye! Quick - round up a posse....Yeeeehahhhh!!!!"
Bill C. is off the hook bar the shouting, so he'll feel like firin' off a few rounds to be celebratin'. The Senate and Congressional Republicans might feel like that too to ease some of the tension they must be feeling seeing as how Bill got the girls and they got the raspberry. Between them all, they should be able to come up with a good posse. Target practise on some Iraqi antiaircraft batteries can't be doing it for them really. |
