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To: slacker711 who wrote (59749)	2/4/2007 11:15:25 PM
From: masa	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 197364

"applications processor is in the low to mid teens as well" It is completely possible to make a basic WCDMA phone without any application processor, (if the target is really to make a phone with the same functionality as a basic CDMA or GSM phone). And by the way has been done. I still must say, Slacker: I don't want to argue with you. To my mind (which is totally challenged here) you actually know what you are talking about. "Listen to Motorola yourself....they basically admitted to the fact that they havent been able to compete in 3G" That is because everybody else is trying to keep 3G as "high end". That is how it is now, but does not really tell what COULD be done (as said, the cost difference between GSM and GSM/WCDMA multimode, when all the other functionality is exactly the same is, around $10. WCDMA vs. CDMA is actually less).