To: Eric L who wrote (8967 ) 1/27/2001 9:39:55 PM From: foundation Read Replies (3) | Respond to Eric - an article from NOK's very own site - The Feature - just for you! Overheating mobile handsets and poor battery life could but Parthus chief (((If true, it seems that Operators may be motivated to blow off GPRS and transition directly to UMTS - and reap the capacity benefits of all that costly spectrum that's laying fallow in their fields. <g>))) GPRS phones are expected to be around three times as fast (((Fortunately for Europe, Q and SpinCo will resolve pesky UMTS chipset issues that challenge simpler minds. <g>))) "Some of the models that we have seen hardly work," said thefeature.com "I think its safe to reasonably assume that by 2005 GPRS will be the predominant technology deployed in the world as most research agencies project." "Whats your guess?" meat on the street will never see more than GPRS 20-28kbs average on the downlink - prior to optimization (provided that works) - problems with heat and energy - plus, of course - capacity restraints. Except, perhaps, in industry press propaganda and your euphoric posts. <g>"NOK knows ... and they know how to play the game. Better than anyone." dozens .marginalized . game in the very broadest terms you can envisage - to include all recreationally oriented or fashion-driven peripherals and applications) to integrate phone capabilities into their appliances than it will be for NOK to integrate games - in light of their rather limited scope of experience (in regard to these extensions).msn.zdnet.com Scorecard today reads: 25 GPRS networks launched..
