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To: ggamer who wrote (45084)	3/15/2005 4:00:07 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197244

QCOM employees are becoming very lazy and they are no longer being creative Interesting. I see "evidence"--probably as worthwhile as the opinion of a single Nokia engineer with little insight--to the contrary. For example, the MediaFlo initiative came out of nowhere, and just picked up steam from its initial announcement. We're now talking about spin-offs and contracts with content providers....that's speedy, not lazy, though I'll be the first to admit that there's many a slip between the cup and the lip, to repeat an old cliche. And HSDPA? If reports are correct, Q is about a year ahead of the competiton. Can't call its efforts on HSDPA lazy. And it's not as if all Q employees are receiving enormous bonuses or something. I'm sure there are plenty of managerial folks who'll kick butt if it needs kicking. If the options are to make the employees rich, they cannot afford to slack in one of the most competitive markets on the planet. I think the Nokia guy was doing his best to describe Nokia, whose edge has definitely become more blunt after its terrific run.

To: ggamer who wrote (45084)	3/15/2005 4:23:46 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 197244

ANY time the whole division of NOKIA slackers want to test how Lazy they are, bring it on.... After 15 years, they can barely make a working CDMA chip? come on. How stupid are they there? I sat with their engineers in 1992 while they desperately tried to reverse engineer what we had done and kept asking the most inaane questions over and over again about how the chips worked. they kept making the RF chips wrong and repeatedly kept making them that way. Zyray started from NOTHING and made a WCDMA chipset in less than 12 months. And NOKIA?

To: ggamer who wrote (45084)	3/15/2005 5:52:55 PM
From: lbmiller2000	Respond to of 197244

From your note: <<I recently spoke with a Nokia Engineer working in San Diego and he said the game is over as far as QCOM dominating the future of wireless industry. However, he said, and because of all the royalty money coming to the company, QCOM employees are becoming very lazy and they are no longer being creative.>> True story: Two-years ago I got stuck at JFK with a US-based Nokia exec during the massive northeastern power failure. We spent 6-hours together, sharing food, drink and a $300 cab ride to Philly to escape the black out. He said: "Qualcomm is going to be 'toast' in 6-months. They've had their run, but now we're ahead of them in all areas of 3G." It became very obvious in those 6-hours that Nokia employees see Qualcomm (more so than MOT or ERCY) as the enemy. Nokia just don't like paying royalties!