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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mark Fleming who wrote (22072)	5/1/2002 8:20:12 PM
From: Jim Fleming	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197225

Re waiting for the technology. My wife and daughter want new phones as soon as GPS is available. I am waiting for 1x. That's three phones as soon as Verizon is ready. Jim

To: Mark Fleming who wrote (22072)	5/1/2002 10:05:05 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 197225

<If they really market the 911 feature of the GPS phones properly, they'll be an avalanche of purchasers. Picture an ad showing a frightened woman in a broken down car on a dark street, while a car pulls up behind to "help." Ads like this will really pull in upgrades and new users.> Crime will go right out of business! When people have a mobile phone, hotkeyed to their preferred security supplier, with a hotlink to the nearest 3 security cars in the area, with a bounty of $US100 to the first security guy there who kills the assailant or burglar, it would be a very poor return on investment to attempt to attack, rape or rob somebody. The victim might have a phone hidden somewhere, or hot-keyed then thrown 2 metres away into a bush [hard to find and turn off in the dark while robbing or raping somebody and it would be too late anyway]. They might have two phones!! Phones are small enough to hide all over the place these days. Heck, body cavity searches would be necessary to ensure victims don't have a hidden phone. People could have a Bluetooth nano radio beacon stuck under their skin and activate it when needing rescue. SnapTrack would lead the police or security right to them. A dead-man switch could be set [if you don't keep your hand clasped, the beacon would go off]. That would make it difficult to even kill somebody by surprise from a few metres away and get away with their wallet. It would be a matter of a minute or less for security people to arrive, which is not a lot of time to commit crimes and make a good escape. At car crashes, a few tow trucks are usually on the scene within a minute or five and that's with none of the modern GPS stuff. They listen to frequencies for emergency calls and beat the police and ambulances to the scene by a long way. They lie in wait all over the city, waiting for the call. Security companies would do the same, being paid on a commission basis, with bonus payments for successful arrest of the criminal. With 100 security vehicles in a metropolitan area, one or two of them would never be more than a minute or so away from the person calling for help. A criminal wouldn't have a clue whether security is 10 seconds or 5 minutes away. If people carried ID guns [such as a skunk gun or radionuclides or dye or nanotechnology transmitters] the crook would be very easily tracked and caught. Identification wouldn't be much problem either! As you say, 911 SnapTrack phones will sell by the billion. [Well, you didn't say by the billion, but they will]. Not being lost would be handy too. Mqurice