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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (3441)	1/28/2000 4:15:00 PM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 34857

ero, << Motorola is apparently a no-show in January >> Re: Motorola WAP GPRS Handsets Mobile phone maker Motorola has launched a collection of wireless devices based on WAP technology which gives users mobile access to the Internet. silicon.com "The Timeport devices showcased to industry onlookers in New York are based on General Packet Radio Services (GPRS) technology, which speeds up data transfer rates to 12 times those of GSM" - Eric -

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (3441)	1/30/2000 6:56:00 AM
From: Joar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Tero, is Ericsson really the dominant supplier of cell phones in Finland? Hard to believe. . . . <<In a rapidly growing and sophisticated wireless market like Finland's, for instance, Ericsson has shown that it can successfully compete against Motorola and Nokia. Ericsson is the dominant supplier of cell phones in Finland >> stockhouse.com Thanks for any comments on the facts and figures of this article. Joar

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (3441)	1/30/2000 11:39:00 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

I throw one little filler line into my post, and I get a state of the union on porn in mobile phones ;-)..... Here's a review of the 7110 from a poster on the Motley Fool thread.... boards.fool.com Hello, I thought folks might be interested in the WAP scene here in Scandinavia. I'm based in Reykjavik, Iceland where I consult building mobile Internet applications using WAP. The Arrival (and prompt dissaperance) of the 7110 This is nuts. The Nokia 7110 went on sale last Thursday. They were all gone on Monday. Same story everywhere in Europe. Boom! baby. The Press. Every bank, every Web portal blitzed the main newspaper with ads touting their WAP services. My favorite was the two page ad from one of the larger banks that consisted of the single word: WAP! (as in BAM! ZAP! POW!). Geeks and Suits. I recently formed a WAP startup and got a chance to speak at WAP conference in Reykjavik on Monday. I think every IT person and every CEO with a clue was there. 7110 technical stuff. Your 7110 comes pre-configured for at least one homepage. You can add up to four more. You never actually type URLs. Instead you bookmark URLs that you come across during WAP surfing that initiates from your initial homepage. Kinda dopey. I'll probably write a simple URL snarfing tool and make the surf-bookmark process easier for people. The phones are lovely of course. Sometimes I use the display as a flashlight (then again, I'm a geek). The functionality is astounding. The nav-roller is easily the most innovative feature I have ever seen to a pre-existing product. It completely re-invents the user-interface. You are so much faster doing stuff. You almost never actually use the keypad. Man, Nokia is simply on a completey different level. More techo - the backend: Serving WAP content involves essentially five pieces: 1) The WAP Gateway. 2) The Web Server. 3) The Dial-in server. 4) The 7110 5) The mobile operator When you request WAP content the data flow is: 4 -> 5 -> 3 -> 1 -> 2 The requested content follows the reverse direction back to the mobile handset. The interesting thing is that 1, 2, and 3 can be in completely different places. Run by different organizations. The mobile operators most definitely do not run the show. I have done the following: Used my ISP in Reykjavik for 3), Used the Ericsson public WAP gateway in Stokholm for 1) and used my on personal Web server in Silicon Valley for 2). Any permutation of those three elements is possible. My question: How the hell do the mobile operators think they can own the customer when services, content, etc. are leaking out all over the Web? I have said here and elsewhere before: once IP is allowed on a network that network begins a terminal decent to dumbness with all true value pushed out to the edges. That is exactly what I am seeing unfold here in Reykjavik.