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To: gdichaz who wrote (2379)	10/15/1999 12:38:00 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13582

Let's separate wireless voice from wireless data right now in terms of etiqute. Wireless voice people are at times very obnoxious. I have been in restaurants where they play wiht hte phone, turn up and down the ringer, try out all their voice mail options while sitting right next to me. I have my phone, but I have it off if I am eating and on a very low ringer if I am waiting. If I get a call, I take it to a private place to talk, ALWAYS. With the digital service, you can get the number that was calling you while your phone was off and call them back. Not an issue. As for wireless data, it is NOT neccessary to answer a call at anytime while talking to other poeple. Wireless data is non real time, i.e. you do not have to act on it like answer it or it is gone. Wireless data is delivered when it comes wihtout needed prompt attention, so theuser can get a stock quote, look at it in the context of tlaking wiht someone, akin to looking at the time on your watch while at the endof a meeting to find where you are, and act on the stock quote when they leave the meeting. You do NOT need the ringer or vibrator on for this, you do not NEED to disturb others with it. NOONE should ever limit wireless data ANYWHERE. The rest of this article is just an opinion. I have mine, they have theirs. I am concerend that wiht all this Bluetooth hype, there is no BT chipset out there at a low price. I know many companies which are working on one,but I am at a loss as to why there is nothing out there yet. IF and WHEN they do introduce something in the $5 range for a complete BT interface, it will change the way we work. Steros which can find and assign speakers by themselves wihtout wires, VCR can talk to TV even if it is in another room, phone talks to cars when you get in and it is still in your briefcase, phones talk to fibre repeaters when you get within 100 feet of them in airports. Laptops which can find a net connect in any of 1000s of ways when they are near anything which radiates BT technology.