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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kech who wrote (56413)	10/29/2006 12:51:31 AM
From: Jon Koplik	Respond to of 196853

AP News -- Cell Phone Takes Security to New Heights ............................. October 28, 2006 Cell Phone Takes Security to New Heights By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 7:35 a.m. ET TOKYO (AP) -- A new mobile phone in Japan takes security pretty seriously: It can recognize its owner, automatically locks when the person gets too far away from it and can be found via satellite navigation if it goes missing. The P903i from NTT DoCoMo, Japan's top mobile carrier, comes with a small black card about the size of a movie-ticket stub. The card works as a security key by connecting wirelessly with the cell phone. If an owner keeps the card in a bag or pocket, the phone recognizes when the card moves too far away and locks automatically to prevent someone from making a call. The user can choose to have the phone lock when it is 26 feet, 66 feet or 130 feet away. People who lose their security cards can punch in a password to unlock the phone. But they will have to buy a new card to set the lock again. The extra security is handy because, like other recent Japanese phones, the P903i can be used as a credit card or a prepaid cash card. Of course, the new security feature won't prevent snoops from getting information from the phone -- reading personal e-mails, say -- if it is within the set distance of the security key. To guard against such intruders, users can activate the phone's facial identification feature. Here's how that works. Owners must first take at least three photos of themselves with the phone's camera. Up to 10 can be shot, in various situations -- with and without glasses, with and without makeup, indoors and outdoors. Then, if the facial-recognition feature is turned on, before accessing the handset a user has to take a picture of himself with the camera. The phone analyzes features such as distance between the eyes and unlocks if the image matches the stored data. A separate function recognizes whether the eyes are blinking -- in case someone tries to show the owner's photo to gain fraudulent entry. Not only that, a four-letter password can be added to this process, to guard against an identical twin getting unauthorized access. ''Security is increasingly a key function for mobile phones as they become loaded with more sophisticated features,'' said NTT DoCoMo spokeswoman Mamiko Tanaka. ''Handset makers are all competing to come up with interesting ways to strengthen security.'' Should the P903i get lost, the user can track it with its onboard Global Positioning System. After entering the phone number into a Web site, the owner will see a map showing the phone's rough location -- directions via GPS can be off by several hundred feet. Pricing for the phone, which is manufactured by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and planned for sale in the next few months, has not yet been announced. Using the GPS service to look for a missing phone will cost $2.50 a pop. Copyright 2006 The Associated Press.

To: kech who wrote (56413)	10/29/2006 7:41:26 AM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 196853

too bad andy seybold will not post here. he used to and this is the second time he has been noted as not supporting qcom strength. i believe a few months back Seybold was accused of a negative article on qcom and then suggested he post here. silence.

To: kech who wrote (56413)	10/30/2006 9:49:14 AM
From: slacker711	Respond to of 196853

The supposed Qualcomm default in "digital RF" is entirely fictional, as Qualcomm has moved to all CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) integrated devices before TI, and RF is intrinsically analog on the front end. The "fictional" advantage that TI has seems to make a huge difference in the real world. Motorola is going to be the first to market with a handset based on TI's Locosto platform and is also likely to be first to market with a handset based on the Q's QSC single-chip series. The Motophone will be available in two versions.... The size of the GSM and CDMA versions of the Motophone looks to be identical though we wont know for sure until we get the exact details. However, it seems that there is a HUGE difference in the talk/standby times for the handsets. I also expect the CDMA version to be more expensive. mobileburn.com The MOTOFONE F3's battery should be capable of running the device for up to 7 hours of talk time, or 16.5 days of standby time. The CDMA version of the MOTOFONE F3, known as the MOTOFONE F3c, has less battery life than the F3: 2.5 hours of talk time or just over 7 days of standby time. I really hope that these numbers are wrong, but Mobile Burn is a fairly good website. The CDMA number is pathetic. If you lived in a village in India with irregular access to electricity (a common situation), which handset would you buy? Slacker