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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: A.J. Mullen who wrote (7208)	7/19/2005 5:49:18 PM
From: TShirtPrinter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12235

Greetings, But what the world wants to know, is did you and Maurice play golf? And is he as good as he lets us think he is ? Congrats to you and your family Maurice. Tony

To: A.J. Mullen who wrote (7208)	7/20/2005 10:36:53 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12235

Cellphone shops and sales techniques are pathetic. <I wonder how much sales of new phones, PDAs etc are slowed by the bewildering choice that exists. Every so often I think of upgrading my wireless services. Each time I make the best the enemy of the good, and stick with my steam-powered calls only phone.> I'm sure you are right that the barriers to entry are raised by the merchants. In Europe, UK, NZ [though I think not in the USA] they hide the phones in glass cases and list a few functions on a piece of paper. There's not much information and trying them out is hard work - they want people to just point and buy. 3G is evident if one looks for it, but there's not much to tell propective buyers about the benefits. There are a good proportion of the 3G phones with a QUALCOMM label on them, which is nice to see. But of all the phones on display, only about 5% are QUALCOMM inside. About 10% are 3G [approximate guess]. Maybe it's 20%. I suspect the rate of 3G adoption will dramatically increase over the next year or two as people get to know about it bit by bit and byte by byte. I have my old clunker still. It's not that much of a clunker, but it is 3 years old. Mqurice [in Montpellier enjoying summer]