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To: Ausdauer who wrote (18154)	1/11/2001 11:49:36 AM
From: lkj	Respond to of 60323

-RIMM's long battery life- Aus, My guess for its long battery life is that there is very little radio tranceiving happening on it comparing to a cell phone. [My guess] The Blackberry does not "wake up" as often as a cell phone does. A cell phone may have to "wake up" once every one or two seconds. The Blackberry can do it once every 20, 30 seconds, or even a minute. During "deep sleep", even the CPU is probably in a power off mode that's consuming less than 1 mW. This way the standby will be incredibly long. During operations, the pager only uses the radio when downloading a email and sending a finished email. Considering that all Blackberry emails are short, in practical terms from anywhere between a few bytes to a few hundred bytes, not much radio is used even during "opertions". Mobile enterprise email is a low hanging fruit that RIMM has correctly defined, but it's a niche market. I just don't see how it can battle Palm and Microsoft when the big boys jump in. RIMM needs a major revamp of its hardware and software platform to go after the main stream market, but I think it's already too late. The best RIMM can do is to focus on its niche and grow very carefully at markets that are closely associated with its current applications. Anyway, I view RIMM as a dead company in the long run, unless someone buys it. regards, Khan