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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DaveMG who wrote (5094)	12/1/2000 3:58:18 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196546

eigokyoshitsu.com There's an i-mode site [Tarken-son's], in Japanese so unless you have Japanese-enabled puter you won't read it. [[[Actually, right now neither it nor the non-imode site are loading for some reason?!! No way to run a company!!!]]] It's dinky and you can squeeze the window size down to fit onto a phone screen. You can try it out on your mainframe computer screen, just move the window edges to small size so the image would fit on a phone. See how the site self-adjusts to smaller and smaller and you scroll down the page to view more. Here's the full-size site eigokyoshitsu.com which is much nicer to look at. I know which I'd prefer to look at. With cellphone windows as small as they are, the choice is simple. I think i-mode won't be a worldwide success, the same as short messaging service [SMS] by multiple keystrokes won't be a worldwide success, other than in the short run while people get voice input organized. Which will then see SMS be a vastly huge success as a data transmission service for text messages. Cellphones are good for text messages, but not for web-site viewing. Clicking little keypads several times per letter isn't really that much fun, even with predictive text, though it is no doubt already a sport where there are prizes for the fastest input of some message. The same as Rubik's Cube was a sport. With a properly lubricated cube, some people could do it in seconds, not hours, days or in my case, give up! But there aren't many Rubik cubes around now. It was a craze, a fad, a passing interest as an eddy on the edge of the main torrent in the human river of interest. So is i-mode. [Just playing at being a writer like Tero!] When people have voice-input text in their phones and the real McCoy Microsoft tablets, or paper-back size 1xEV 'books' with low prices per megabyte, there won't be a need to save money by having text messaging 'conversations', which people currently do [we do] - they'll either leave a little text message converted from voice or they'll simply have a brief chat. I-mode is a half-way house while we wait for decent wireless internet services on gadgets with a better-size viewing system. I like the idea of wearable screens for 3D viewing with images scanned directly onto my retinas [or is it retinae like antennae instead of antennas?] You can send messages from your computer to GSM phones around the world for no charge here: www3.mtnsms.com The big success will be 1xEV IT data and phone calls and text messaging on a cute little paper-back book-sized tablet with voice to text input. Listening will be via Bluetooth-linked Earcell [TM] which is [going to be when my prototype is finished] a hearing-aid in-your-ear device; one in each ear for high-quality listening and complete sound control. It will be tuned to your own hearing needs, as a dual mode hearing aid, internet phone, hearing protection device. People will be able to be in a really noisy factory and simply talk to each other across the factory floor using Bluetooth links. The microphone could be in your ear, picking up your voice from bone transmission. Wow, I haven't checked for a few years since their IPO, but Phonak [the hearing-aid company in Switzerland] stock is NOT looking like the US tech wreck. Check out investor information and the stock price graph. I think the IPO price was about 500 Swiss Francs around 1994. phonak.de Click on investor, then fully open the window, to see the price graph. Maybe eventually, nerve impulses could be picked up from the cervical ganglia so one would only need to 'think' speech, perhaps including moving tongue and lips in soundless speech or whispering almost soundlessly. Those nerve impulses would turn into voice in somebody's Earcell on the other side of the world, perhaps with feedback into your own Earcell so you know what you sound like just as in normal speech [though a tape-recording of our own voices doesn't sound the same as hearing ourselves talk]. QUALCOMM has got a LOT of royalties to come yet! A lot of ASICs to sell. Mqurice