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To: brian h who wrote (57081)	12/9/2004 1:34:42 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Brianh, I'm waiting too, sniper-scope scanning for Jay and legions of others to wander into the CDMA realm. Now would be nicer, but Rome wasn't built in a day and even a cat knows to sit patiently, for a longggg time, knowing that the mouse will come out to play or eat. I can wait too. Jay presents his purchase as a slap in the face to CDMA. He's a prisoner of the useless telecom service providers he has. They will see the light, the phragmented photon CDMA light. Then Jay will upgrade. Just as nobody drives around in a Model A other than for a bit of fun, nobody will use Jay's old-fashioned gadgets in 2010. What is excellent and makes me drool, is the enthusiasm he has, confirming yet again what I know, which is that we all have a brain and we all need to be constantly plugged into gpsOne [where we are], Google [our memory], our bank accounts [to buy and sell], our phone [to communicate], our software [to plan, calculate, record and communicate], our video camera [to record and send pictures], our MediaFLO [to know what's going on], and so on. Look at this attempted techno-porn. Jay is like a young guy buying Penthouse because he can't get the real thing. It's better than nothing. It bears the same relationship to the real thing as a naughty weekend does to marriage: <I bought for home ... (a) myxda.com GSM tri-band dual SIM, GPRS/WiFi/Bluetooth-enabled, QWERTY slideout keyboard, and some accessories (cool bluetooth ear piece, extra cradle, etc) (b) HP PC @ 3 GHz, 1 GByte RAM, 3 x 160 GByte HDD, all around sound, laserjet printer, scanner, etc package (c) Commercial grade wide-coverage Wireless LAN Router (d) 2 x 2 Gbyte flash card (e) 13 in 1 memory card reader (f) All latest software for MS Office, MS Front Page, Norton System Works, AS Anti-Hacker, Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop, plus plus (g) Upgrading broadband to 6M, including 63 TV channels, all via ADSL >Platform Look what he has in it: <Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 PocketPC Phone Edition Second Edition Integrated GSM/GPRS, Bluetooth, Wireless LAN 802.11b, VGA camera and QWERTY keyboard > He probably doesn't realize himself what he has. Look what Pocket PC enables: skype.com Yes, a download of Skype enabling him to talk to other Skype users around the world for only the cost of his data connection, which at home will be nothing and out and about in a 3G network will be near-zero [once competition gets going]. But wait, there's more. With Skypeout, he can make calls to landlines in many countries and USA cyberphones/cellphones for only about US2c per minute. skype.com Excuse me while I wipe the drool off my face. Here come the mobs now - nearly 250 million of them so far and another billion converts still to go and another billion after that when they realize what's available then another billion after that when they can afford it. cdg.org Scroll down a bit for the juicy graph. By 2010 there should be about 10 times as many CDMA subscribers as now. There will also be hordes of machines wanting to be in on the action, reporting back to base and feeding cyberspace. Mqurice