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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (7810)	4/11/2000 7:30:00 AM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9068

Thread- I may be wrong, but I don't know how Symbian/Psion could be linked with full motion video for a very long time. Afterall I thought it's sole purpose was to develop standards for tiny mobile wireless pipes. I always figured it was a stop-gap measure while waiting for bigger mobile wireless pipes which may be up to five years, or more off in the future. Here's today's PR with info on the alliance and all technologies in current discussion. Talk about a mis-mash of competing technologies. But then again, the more the better for CTXS. -MikeM(From Florida) ************************* Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola call London news conference LONDON, April 11- The world's top three mobile phone manufacturers -- Finland's Nokia , Motorola of the U.S. and Sweden's Ericsson -- said on Tuesday they were calling a London news conference at 1400 GMT. The companies said in a statement they wanted to share the industry's views of the latest technology developments in the fast-emerging mobile electronic business market. No further details were immediately available. Motorola, Nokia and Ericsson are already linked via their Symbian joint venture with British handheld computer company Psion Plc and Matsushita of Japan.** Psion-led Symbian is built around Psion's EPOC operating platform, which has thrown down the gauntlet to U.S. computer giant Microsoft Corp's Windows CE and palmtop market leader Palm Inc Palm OS rival technology. But the borders between alliances are becoming increasingly blurred in an industry that is braced for booming demand for smart, high tech cellphones as European governments put next generation mobile licences up for grabs. And there is more to the Symbian platform than EPOC. There are also layers of services dealing with WAP (Wireless Application Protocol), which connects mobile phones to the Internet, Bluetooth, which allows mobile devices to communicate with each other without wires, high speed General Packet Radio Switching (GPRS) network technology and other features that Windows CE and the Palm OS currently lack.