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To: John Biddle who wrote (29068)	11/18/2002 9:42:45 PM
From: John Biddle	Respond to of 197724

Now in Color If you want to ditch your monochrome display, it’ll cost you. Entrepreneur magazine - December 2002, By Erik P. Nelson entrepreneur.com They’ve been in overseas markets for at least two years, but most U.S. carriers have waited until this year to unleash phones with color displays. Color screens have spurred usage in Asia, where 90 percent of handsets now offer color. Every U.S. carrier is testing the concept on at least one phone. The handsets are cool but pricey—between $200 and $500. Ira Brodsky, president of wireless research firm Datacomm, says that camera-equipped phones, multimedia messaging (basically, attaching a picture or a diagram that can be annotated) and multiuser games all benefit from color. But color isn’t just for hobbyists: AT&T, Nextel and Verizon have all launched animated business-productivity applications for color screens. Nextel, for example, offers Java-based apps for contact organization, bid estimation and loan amortization. Verizon has BREW apps for tracking expenses and currency conversion. A few animated applications come with most handsets; others are priced between $1 and $20 per download. But some are sold by subscription and count against your minute plan, so conduct desk research before buying. Naturally, color screens increase your overall enjoyment of your phone as well. Brodsky expects color phones to be a hot holiday gift item and predicts that, by mid-2004, color will be standard on business and consumer handsets alike.

To: John Biddle who wrote (29068)	11/20/2002 11:16:33 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 197724

star-techcentral.com Fran, you seem to doubt that 2GHz spectrum is so much less efficient than 800MHz. You don't need to take QUALCOMM's word for it. Ask anyone who knows anything about radio and they can tell you the same. Much, much less infrastructure is needed because the propagation of 800MHz is so much more robust than 2GHz through houses, trees and urban jungle. Countries often do really dumb things. Adopting 2GHz for W-CDMA would be such an example when Singapore could use 800MHz and cdma2000, which is ready to go right now. See what they are doing in China. Think about how cheap handsets will be for cdma2000 from China. If the IDA is against it, there is probably a non-technological, non-economic reason. I don't know how prevalent bribery of officials is in Singapore, but that would be a good reason to choose bad technology. Maybe there are other equally bad reasons for the IDA's position, such as DoCoMo promising money and holding out false promises about W-CDMA - check out FOMA in Japan for how well DoCoMo promises are likely to do. Regards, Maurice Winn Auckland, New Zealand