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To: Another John who wrote (10634)	11/18/1999 9:06:00 PM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 54805

John, << GSM + CDMA chipset was not a problem for Q >> I've seen posts to that effect. Don't have the link. Hope they make it a priority one of these days. Adding a SIM (smart card) as opposed to a chipset, to a handset introduces some additional issues (size, power consumption, et al) but these issues should not be insurmountable. Since Q will be out of handsets we can leave this task to Nokia, Ericcson, or Motorola, who have lots of experience with SIM cards in handsets and with both GSM and now CDMA. Sue's post that I responded to referred to a new flavor of SIM card that is Java enabled. Another new complement to the GSM SIM is called a WIM (WAP Identity Module) and it adds RSA PKI encryption capability and can be used in a dual slot GSM phone (like Motorolas) and PC interchangeably and this really does potentially give GSM an additional competitive edge in the world of wireless e-commerce, IMO. Two references to this device are at: techweb.com and 127.0.0.1:3456/SI/~wsapi/investor/reply-11964412 - Eric -