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To: BDAZZ who wrote (60710)	3/2/2007 10:08:34 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196971

Ddin't NOK slide from a large number like 40% to todays slide down the chain? the Koreans have gone from 5% to a ginat amount. I don't think they are gaining anything. It is all theirs to loose.

To: BDAZZ who wrote (60710)	3/3/2007 2:31:52 AM
From: scratchmyback	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196971

<<Re their (Nokia's) strange attitude toward not using QCOM chips for CDMA. This attitude has cost them dearly in revenue and greatly promoted the status of their competitors.> Engineer and Maurice already commented on this one somewhat, but I do still have one more question. If Nokia had used Qualcomm chips instead of TI, how much more money would Nokia have made over the years, how much bigger would Nokia' global market share be now? My guess is that using Qualcomm chips would have helped Nokia in the U.S. and couple of other CDMA2000 markets, but at the same time Nokia's hegemony in GSM might have been diminished as they would have been forced to develop and maintain two different phone architectures, one based on TI chip and another one for QCOM.