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To: engineer who wrote (6493)	2/15/2000 12:48:00 PM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Engineer - In EDGE, the power consumption will be higher than the regular GSM phone, so the phones will be larger and consume more battery. In HDR, the HDR electronics are EXACTLY the saem as teh IS-95 electronics wiht the exception of a few 1000's of gates to do the actual digital coding of HDR. While probably true to some degree, it is also true that much of the increased power for EDGE comes from the fact that the energy needed to transmit one bit is approximately constant from GSM to EDGE or from CDMAOne to HDR. But the number of bits/sec is going up dramatically. This eats power for both EDGE and HDR. Comments? Clark