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To: Puck who wrote (8536)	12/13/2000 5:18:04 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

quote.bloomberg.com

To: Puck who wrote (8536)	12/14/2000 2:08:46 AM
From: Yaacov	Respond to of 34857

I agree. Nokia is a smartly ran company, and I hope it will not get tangled with LU!

To: Puck who wrote (8536)	12/16/2000 3:20:28 PM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 34857

Interesting (month old) article on the Nokia 9210 Communicator with some less than favorable Nokia comments. Simon Buckingham is a major promoter of SMS & ESMS. He comments on the fact that the Nokia 9210 Communicator does not have GPRS capability. Something makes me think (fuzzy recall) that Symbian does not have software development tools for GPRS, but that they will be available shortly. Anyone care to comment? He also comments on Nokia's proprietary Smart Messaging protocol. I am unfamiliar with this initiative. I thought Nokia was into open standards? >> Nokia 9210 announced with EPOC, Java and color but without GPRS 22 November 2000 Simon Buckingham Mobile Lifestreams On 21st November 2000, the hardware manufacturer Nokia announced the Nokia 9210 Communicator, the third in its Communicator device family after the 9000 and 9110. The 9210 is the first with a high-resolution color display, the Symbian EPOC operating system (the previous Communicators used GEOS from Geoworks, a now defunct wireless operating system). The Nokia 9210 Communicator is expected to be available during the first half of 2001. The 9210 also supports High Speed Circuit Switched Data (GSCSD) but amazingly the 9210 does NOT support the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) despite the fact that more and more GPRS networks are being commercially launched in the timeframes that this device will be available. This fact is another depiction of Nokia's strategy of allocating scarce developer resources to HSCSD which less than a dozen networks globally have launched or will be launching commercially, and Nokia's apparently continuing difficulties in supporting the GPRS software stack. Other vendors such as Motorola have already been shipping GPRS capable phones for several months. Clearly, this is another sign that Nokia's leadership in the terminals market is coming to the end. 2001 will bring with it Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS) which Nokia does not seem to be supporting, preferring instead its proprietary Smart Messaging protocol, GPRS and initial Third Generation networks that will be supplied by the Japanese handset vendors. Competition in all areas of the mobile value chain are increasing, and Nokia can only hope that it can extend itself beyond hardware manufacture across the value chain and take a smaller chain of more pieces of a larger market. << - Eric -