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To: John Walliker who wrote (27233)	7/3/2000 1:14:27 PM
From: Ausdauer	Respond to of 54805

John, this is from the May issue of Red Herring magazine... "A smart phone's limited intelligence resides in its subscriber-identity module, a smart card embedded in most digital phones. Since the card can easily be replaced, several vendors have announced upgrades that allow older phones to run advanced data services. The largest of these vendors is Sweden's Across Wireless, whose applications include stock trading and online movie-ticket sales. Corporate server access is also planned. Across Wireless also has cards that add wireless application protocol (WAP) browsers to existing handsets. The closest thing to a standard for smart phones, WAP is a scaled-down version of the Web, which uses a microbrowser optimized for small screens and slow links, and should be universally supported. Even low-end phones that don't run EOPC, Palm OS or Windows CE should eventually containg their own WAP brwoser." FWIW, Ausdauer

To: John Walliker who wrote (27233)	7/3/2000 1:18:25 PM
From: Ausdauer	Respond to of 54805

John, this is from the May issue of Red Herring magazine... "A smart phone's limited intelligence resides in its subscriber-identity module, a smart card embedded in most digital phones. Since the card can easily be replaced, several vendors have announced upgrades that allow older phones to run advanced data services. The largest of these vendors is Sweden's Across Wireless, whose applications include stock trading and online movie-ticket sales. Corporate server access is also planned. Across Wireless also has cards that add wireless application protocol (WAP) browsers to existing handsets. The closest thing to a standard for smart phones, WAP is a scaled-down version of the Web, which uses a microbrowser optimized for small screens and slow links, and should be universally supported. Even low-end phones that don't run EPOC, Palm OS or Windows CE should eventually contain their own WAP browser..." Although Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola and the rest would like you to upgrade your handset each year there will be some customers who may opt simply for the latest software upgrade. If handset manufacturers continue to see component shortages for LCD displays, flash memory and passive components it would seem prudent and ecologically sound to "recycle" the base handset. Modularity in this sense has not yet caught on, and it may never catch on. I hardly see handsets as disposable items, but maybe we are headed that way? A few years ago I heard that the most common component of landfills in the US was phone books. When archeologists unearth our civilization a few million years from now there will be two distinct technology strata compressed one on top of the other. A base layer of white and yellow pages and a covering layer of outdated handsets. FWIW, Ausdauer SanDisk...coming to an EPOC-, Palm OS-, Windows CE- or SIM card-enabled phone near you.