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To: engineer who wrote (43064)	10/1/1999 5:17:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Nokia Watchout!> From the October 4, 1999, issue of Wireless Week Samsung's New Offering Suddenly In Spotlight By Bruce Felps NEW ORLEANS--Nokia, look out. The CDMA handset market has a vendor itching for the No. 1 spot. After promising a new line of phones earlier this year, Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. last month debuted two handsets at PCIA's Personal Communications Showcase '99. The flagship, the SCH-6100, made for Sprint PCS, sports a polished silver metal casing and flip front. The model measures only 4 inches long, 1.8 inches wide and 0.7 inches thick. Tipping the scales at 3 ounces with a lithium battery, the phone weighs less than a basic Zippo lighter. The diminutive device still sports a keypad that rivals Motorola's StarTAC in size, tucked underneath the front cover. The dual-mode phone operates at 1900 MHz for CDMA and 800 MHz for AMPS, and comes equipped with voice-activated dialing, voice memo, personal information management capabilities, a Web browser and a calculator. The display also provides animated graphics--either to tickle users' fancies or, perhaps, to allow carriers to provide advertising. The question hanging in the air is whether this sophisticated, attractive device--and three others introduced at PCS '99--can help Samsung succeed against more established players in the U.S. handset market. Pete Skarzynski, Samsung's vice president of wireless sales and marketing, says the new phones--and the company's $500 million contract with Sprint for three of them--definitely boost the handset maker's status in the U.S. market. "We're probably No. 2 in CDMA, but we're probably No. 1 in PCS phones as a whole," he suggests. Jane Zweig, vice president of Herschel Shosteck Associates Ltd., offers a different, but also upbeat view: "They're definitely in the top five and probably in the top three. They have some nice looking phones, decent quality and they're putting pressure on [other handset makers] to lower the prices. Samsung is definitely a force to be reckoned with." Samsung's new line consists of three other models: the SCH-850 digital model for cellular carriers; its sister model, the SCH-8500, which is dual mode and dual band; and the tri-mode, tri-band SCH-2500. Suggested retail prices for all the new phones range from $79 to $199. "With four new products this year, we've probably discontinued more models than most [handset] companies introduced," says Skarzynski.

To: engineer who wrote (43064)	10/1/1999 5:53:00 PM
From: w molloy	Respond to of 152472

microcell.... Good points. As for COX, as the per unit costs and availability reach alot lower level than @home installtion costs PLUS users have more reasons to purchase such as portability, raoming within the household, transportability, I think they will be back. You describe a race between technologies down the cost curve. Who will win? IMO, I favor the Bluetooth/fiber approach for the 'in-home' market, with roaming capability provided by CDMA/HDR (or GSM/EDGE). I expect the roaming devices ('phones, PDA's, Laptops) to be Bluetooh capable. As for DECT, isn't this what PHS is based on? How much of a mess is that? DECT was not and is not intended for major system wide rollout, but rahter a very local installation base. Yes. However, PHS was intended for a heavily urbanised environment. It's weakness was mobility, which it's competitors capitalised on. DECT was designed as an access technology. Users with DECT phones could access the wider network via their local installation base. DECT was conceived at a time when macrocell 'phones (ie GSM) were expensive. With the advent of cheap macrocell 'phones, it seems the utility of DECT may have passed. w.