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Technology Stocks : Nokia (NOK) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mika Kukkanen who wrote (6116)	7/7/2000 8:44:25 AM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Respond to of 34857

Mika, the R280LX has the same approximate height and width as the NOK 6160, but its depth (thickness) is probably only half that. It is indeed a sleek phone--a nice update from the little boxy offerings they've had for so long. According to the manual, the phone weighs 6.1 ounces (sorry, no grams) and has 4 hours talk with a standard battery. Even if you didn't have the internet stuff, it would still be a nice phone, so for $99 it is the best bargain at ATT. I can only guess they are heavily promoting it. Their only other CDPD-capable phone is a Mitsubishi model with a larger size and screen. That phone looks like a straight transplant from Japan, and also looks like it's about a year/year-and-a-half old design/sizewise. Also, it's expensive at $199. The ERICY phone seems obviously the one they are trying to promote, and the sales reps were wearing them. Do you know why NOK will not have a CDPD phone? Since AWE is supposedly going straight to EDGE, there will be a big time lag before NOK can offer packet data to AWE otherwise. I must say, when I got my Samsung SCH-3500 last summer, I only used the browser once--and just for one minute--due to the expense of connection. In contrast, I think free CDPD packets with well-designed, lean-data services will be a big hit. I actually did order a book last night--The Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace.