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To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (81473)	9/25/2000 6:19:28 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Ilmarinen, you grabbed the wrong part of my message. My main point was < [SMS] will last until email [with voice to script input] takes over in CDMA systems. > I use SMS flat out too on my GSM cellphone. Our family is all fully-armed with GSM phones, with turnover of cellphones averaging about 1 per year [or more for a couple of maniacs]. But in June, CDMA will be out with fast data. At some stage, voice input will be available for QUALCOMM ASICs so people will be able to send an email from their CDMA cellphone to anyone who can receive emails. That will be a lot better than the current text input method; multiple hits on keys, albeit aided with predictive text in some phones. It takes ages to send a message. People will also have 'always on' phones which will be able to have instant messaging with voice to text input. Push SEND and instantly the other person's phone will go 'bingbong' and the message will be there. Same as ICQ etc. That's what I mean by SMS will have limited life. A fairly short one at that. I am drooling over the prospect of at last having CDMA in my home village. It will have taken 10 years from when I first came across QUALCOMM and 12 years from first thinking that encoded signals would be the way to increase capacity of cellphone networks and cut costs and improve performance. The New Paradigm is still moving way too slowly for my liking. Vodafone is going to get a big fright when CDMA arrives. SMS isn't instant - messages can take hours at times! I have no idea where they go in transit. Maybe they stop somewhere to gossip on the way. ICQ, AOL instant messaging on the other hand is instant. Do NOT invest in SMS [unless you get a good payback within a year or two]. I use Windows2000 professional and it doesn't crash [it has a few times but nothing like the daily crunch I used to get]. I didn't know about having to disable power management for instant messages [which I don't use other than to send to phones]. Mqurice