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To: BDAZZ who wrote (143245)	7/4/2006 12:44:39 AM
From: Jon Koplik	Respond to of 152472

Re : "I've ... never insulted you" -- if you are ever at a "loss for words," you can always take Maurice's approach, and tell someone : "Your feet stink." Jon.

To: BDAZZ who wrote (143245)	7/4/2006 1:07:34 AM
From: newportri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

The future will bring technology that does away with SIM cards. And I will also wager R&D's are working on their obsolescence as we speak. Let's hope it's soon because according to the GSM Association there are 1000 new GSM connections per minute or about 1.4 million every day.

To: BDAZZ who wrote (143245)	7/4/2006 1:38:25 AM
From: pyslent	Respond to of 152472

The future will bring technology that does away with SIM cards. And I will also wager R&D's are working on their obsolescence as we speak. That would be the sort of customer hostile effort I've come to expect from the US wireless carriers.

To: BDAZZ who wrote (143245)	7/4/2006 3:04:49 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

It is an opinion based on business and technological common sense. I've noted many of your opinions on this board, disagreed with them, yet never insulted you. Absolutely true, and I apologize for the sarcasm. However, your "business and technological common sense" is leading you way off base here. The first question that I have is have you ever used a SIM card or do you know how they are commonly used by the rest of the world? A relatively consistent wish for even die-hard CDMA users on message boards is for SIM cards. It is also something that most former GSM subscribers seem to miss when they switch to Verizon or Sprint. I'm not sure I have ever read anybody actually complain that they dont like SIM cards (and people complain about everything on forums). Simply put, Qualcomm made a mistake in their decision not to widely support SIM (or R-UIM) cards. A SIM card allows a person to have multiple handsets on a single contract....what could be better than that for Q's business model? Forget roaming, I would love to be able to own multiple handsets on a single contract and just switch between them depending on the situation. The new Motorola Q phone looks like a very cool handset but I wouldnt want to carry that around at all times....perhaps a Samsung Blade handset would be more appropriate when I didnt need the power of a smartphone. The future will bring technology that does away with SIM cards. And I will also wager R&D's are working on their obsolescence as we speak. I'd like to actually see some links supporting this. Customers and operators both seem to like it (note Unicom and Reliance both wanting R-UIM) and everything I have read points to R&D being centered around adding more functionality to the SIM card (storage, mobile payments). I would just like a little more evidence than your common sense.... Slacker