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To: idler who wrote (5988)	1/6/2001 10:13:46 PM
From: Ibexx	Respond to of 196784

Re. we need some killer apps for the higher bandwith. Video e-mail could be one - wireless of course - and I believe it's here now. Applications such as this would have a huge consumer interface to become a major product or family of products. Ibexx

To: idler who wrote (5988)	1/6/2001 10:16:39 PM
From: Pierre	Respond to of 196784

I've been wondering the same as well. Yet, it may be staring us in the face. As someone mentioned in a previous post, the internet is the killer app. If we want to access it then we want to access it quickly. SMS and email are small sub sets of what the internet offers. The problem is those small screens. I can think of lots of reasons to surf while mobile, I just can't see it (literally) on a small screen so it doesn't much appeal to me. Solve that problem, and perhaps the killer app is right there in front of us. A question regarding this 3G discussion. Does CDMA need the added band width to achieve capacity and speed bench marks of 3G, or can it do it on current bandwidth? Pierre

To: idler who wrote (5988)	1/7/2001 8:57:55 AM
From: foundation	Respond to of 196784

"..killer apps for the higher bandwith.." ---------- All work and no play makes 3G a dull service. "Killer" bandwidth-sucking applications won't be pragmatic - certainly not at first. Look to the urchins - and the urchin in us all. Think games. Think recreation and diversion. Think child fashion. Think adult escape from daily shifts on the hamster wheel. Interactive, real time, bandwidth sucking games incorporating GPS, video, voice recognition.... (Streaming video isn't an end in itself - the key is how it's applied.) Think Pokemon and GameBoy on streroids for the little ones. Think reality-based, interactive (sports, status, sex, violence, competition) adult "games" and interactive, mobile, discrete sex play for adults. 3G bandwidth will be used to tap our visceral appetites - our collective pons Varolii. Designers are salivating so profusely they've created slipping hazards in offices ridden with orange caution cones. ben