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To: Clarksterh who wrote (6522)	2/15/2000 3:32:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 13582

*Fuel Cells and hot phones* <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, heat is a GOOD thing. Everything runs on energy. I've mentioned the ability to cook, light fires and do soldering [good for Bernie Schwartz when visiting China] as advantages of using the Anita [TM] WWeb devices with fuel cells. Another advantage is keeping warm. With SnapTrack and Globalstar, people will no longer be lost in the Canadian winter [or Finnish Arctic]. Neither will people die of cold - just stick their WWeb device in their jacket to keep warm. The convection-circulated methanol will keep the ASIC cool, take up the usually vacant space in a wireless device around the chips, wiring and boards and be easily replenished. Methanol is cheap and convenient. Alternatively, ethanol would be good as a fuel and have pharmaceutical value as well, but it doesn't seem to be quite as good a fuel cell energy source as methanol. With an EarCell [TM] in each ear, using a Bluetooth link to the WWeb device clipped on a belt or in a pocket, or sitting on the desk where the screen could be viewed, there would be no need to suffer 'hot ear' since the WWeb ASIC would be in the box and a little voice-only 13kbps chip would be needed in the ear. We'd want two of those cute little Phonak hearing aid gadgets - one in each ear for 3D sound and the full sensing of voice. I'm not sure what the 3D glasses would need. Maybe they'd get a bit hot. With fuel cells and methanol or ethanol as the fuel, battery life will be not the concern it is today. People will be speed-demons, wanting bandwidth and wanting it NOW! Unless NOW! is just a bit too expensive and off-peak in half an hour is good enough for 1c per gigabit instead of $10 per megabit [when Mark McGiver scores a record-breaking touchdown at the SupperBowl at Mighty Q! stadium, Babe scores a Homer and the Cat's Eyes are glowing with $$ signs and NextWaves HDR network is running hot]. EDGE is doomed because of hopeless spectrum demands, low data rates and all the other problems with it. It has no pathway to the CDMA future. Once networks go CDMA, EDGE is toast even if it can be made to work for a short time with Chicken Wire and Bubble Gum, [bringing Bill Frezza out for his ritual flogging], while the legacy GSM world fizzles out like some Neanderthal pre-human line of homo sapiens. Sort of like Silicon Investor. Mqurice