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To: Eric L who wrote (11068)	5/29/2001 3:28:25 PM
From: slacker711	Respond to of 196720

Qualcomm's explanation makes more sense in this article, and in fact perfectly reasonable: I am not sure I agree with that....the following excerpt makes this sound like a defect in the chipset and not just a misinterpretation of the features. "We conducted tests on 5105 chips from last February and finally judged them unfit at the end of April after they failed to provide the speed of up to 144Kbps that we need," an SKT official said. Well...this article is the confirmation that I was hoping wouldnt be found. Like I said before...Ugh. Slacker

To: Eric L who wrote (11068)	5/29/2001 5:27:21 PM
From: mightylakers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196720

Eric, that's a much easier read<ggg> but because they lack the functions required under the unique circumstances of Korean telecom services This brings up a very interesting point about cell phone usage. In Asia, cell phone can be a fashion. In China or Korea or even Japan, people tend to use cell phone as symbol of luxury. I read some articles saying that a lot of people in Shanghai buying WAP phone and never use it in any practical manner. So if your cell phone don't have the sexy feature, or at least appear to be, then you may not be a good sell. Now look at those who are the first to buy 1x phones, I bet a lot of them are buying it like buying an expensive watch. They want to brag about the speed it has, the multimedia, the GPS and the BREWetc etc. And that may well be a very important factor for the lack of interest. Keep in mind 5105 is created because of the carrier's demand, now that the carriers find it's not so attractive they are just backing off. after they failed to provide the speed of up to 144Kbps that we need I'm very surprised to hear this. Are they expecting 5105 to have average speed of 144kbps? It's data speed can be as high as 153 kbps, but we all know what the word "peak" means. they do not support the convolution code Hmm, it seems to me convolution code is the only coding/decoding scheme that 5105 supports from 5105 spec sheet.