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To: Caxton Rhodes who wrote (1527)	2/25/1999 10:48:00 AM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (3) of 34857

About believing what you read... the new Qualcomm Thin Phone "supports" eight days of stand-by time. This means that you have to carry along an extra battery to reach a week of stand-by time. This is a target that GSM manufacturers passed a year ago - with an internal battery. If stand-by time doesn't matter why use this extra battery trick? So the question about IS-95 vs. GSM is this: it is now 1999 and most countries will depend on second-generation digital standards for several years - why should any country choose IS-95 if the consumers can get far better handsets with GSM? You need to carry along an extra battery for your CDMA phone to get anywhere near the stand-by time of a GSM handset... isn't that sort of lame? Isn't resorting to this kind of sleight-of-hand a tacit admission of the fact that CDMA phones can't match the specs of GSM phones? I'm not sure people will be thrilled about the prospect of carrying both a phone and a back-up battery to overcome the GSM/CDMA quality gap. Tero

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