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To: LarsA who wrote (4647)	11/16/2000 9:53:10 AM
From: 100cfm	Respond to of 196977

This we agree on.

To: LarsA who wrote (4647)	11/16/2000 10:10:34 AM
From: engineer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196977

Yea, Lars. The AT&T guys are very good at marketing the colors for a phone which doesn;t work. Too bad for us (or good for AT&T) that they still have analog to make their system work at all. Users care if the call gets completed, has some kind of decent voice quality, and does not get dropped after 30 seconds of use. But then certain camps think that by providing 20 colors of user changeable fronts they can coerce the users into buying phones which just don;t have any kind of radio performance. They treat the users like some giant group of stupid cows that can be herded into the stores to buy in mass quantities. They put this kind of inferior product out there just before Christmas to grab the maximum "no time to shop, just gotta get the new phone" mentality and then hope like hell they can deal wiht the returns in Jan/Feb. We are on Act II of that drama with the new Nokia CDMA phones. Has anyone actually heard one of them yet? Or heard how they perform? Aw, what the hell. I get it in Chrome front and it rings wiht the National Anthem, so what the heck do I care if it impresses my friends. Is Ericy any better? Time will tell.... (Just to be sure....the carriers worry about what happens in Feb when they have all this inventory and all these yelling customers back in their faces...) I agree that the users don;t necessarily care which chip is inside YET, but they do care how that chip performs.