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To: techlvr who wrote (5702)	2/5/2003 8:26:30 PM
From: Cooters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

tech, Which carriers and handsets/cameras did they have? Cooters

To: techlvr who wrote (5702)	2/5/2003 10:23:48 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

Kyocera 7135. That's a hot item. It is now on sale by Telecom New Zealand. Here's their product range: telecom.co.nz Kyocera 7135 here: telecom.co.nz We [Tarken and I] went to their main Khyber Pass business store where they had 3 in stock [we were told by another store, which had none]. They had one left when we got there [10 minutes later]. Somebody was trying out the last one. We had a turn but during the clicking here and there, it suddenly went blank. The salesman couldn't get it going again. He tried pushing reset, taking battery off to check for charge etc. No go. So they sell well, but are prone to failure [on a sample of 3 phones in an hour]. The retail price is NZ$1500 with no plan. Their instore cost is about NZ$1,300 [see by looking at the screen when the salesman was checking stuff]. That's about US$600 to Telecom. At a wholesale price of about that, or maybe they hide $100 somewhere, that's $500. With a royalty of 5% [assuming not Made in China - in which case it would be 7%], that's $25. Plus the sale of the ASIC at about US$25, that would make $50 to QCOM per sale. That's quite a bit of money. Royalties might be ramping up quite seriously as cyberphones become the hot item. People will pay for functionality and mobile cyberspace is a very attractive function. Especially on a reasonably sized screen with good battery life etc. The price per megabyte charged by Telecom is still too high at about US$2 per megabyte. The Best is Yet to Come! Mqurice