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To: gdichaz who wrote (2293)	6/18/2002 4:14:40 PM
From: scratchmyback	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9255

Hi there, gdichaz! Qualcomm is the first to ship samples of WCDMA/UMTS/GSM/GPRS chips as best info seems available. Do you know of a prior sampling from anyone? If so, who, when, where? Well, I don´t know about sampling but how about this Nokia press release from September 2001: press.nokia.com Amongst other things it says: Our 3G product programs are proceeding very well. A couple of weeks ago we completed the world's first 3GPP Release 99 December 00 version standard compliant end-to-end WCDMA call in Finland, using our actual commercial terminal prototypes in GSM and WCDMA modes. Sampling or no sampling, a Nokia prototype GSM/GPRS/WCDMA phone was operational almost one year ago. Don´t know about Qualcomm though.

To: gdichaz who wrote (2293)	6/19/2002 3:28:33 PM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 9255

re: MSM6200/MSM6300 << what you have posted misses the point >> No, it does not. I thought I'd file that for posterity on this lightly trafficked out of the way thread, and for my own reference. << Qualcomm is the first to ship samples of WCDMA/UMTS/GSM/GPRS chips as best info seems available >> WHEN they ship them, they may well be. << Do you know of a prior sampling from anyone? If so, who, when, where? >> Know I do not. I seem to recall that Motorola intends to sample to other manufacturers in September. I suspect that like Nokia they have operational handset prototypes going through IOT, and integration testing and refinement under deep NDA with carriers right now. I don't know about the Japanese, or TI, or Intel, or Agrere, or others. Not every chipmaker lives or dies by Press Releases. There are lots of ways to skin a cat. << If there were the possibility of free exchange >> I think that the keywords in our host and moderators mind are "respectful discussion* of Nokia in particular and other companies in the wireless sector more generally, including both infrastructure and services". As he stated recently: "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone..."* Sounds fair to me. - Eric -