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

To: quartersawyer who wrote (90235)	3/12/2010 10:30:18 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 197227

Qualcomm made the best handsets in the mid 1990s. The Globalstar phone by Qualcomm was the best. The Telit and Ericsson versions were bung. Qualcomm made the excellent QCP820 which worked like magic, provided the connectors didn't fail [which they did all too often - so yes, there can be glitches]. Qualcomm made the famous Thin Phone and Q Phone too. Excellent devices. The pdQ was under construction as the harbinger of the Anita [tm] = Qualcomm would now be the world's premiere cyberphone maker if we had stuck to our guns. Making fantastic phones is easy. Look at the hopeless devices made by those in the business. Apple can come wandering in at a late stage with a half-baked device and it's considered hot-stuff. Meanwhile Apple's main carrier can't keep the data flowing selling on a ridiculous all you can eat basis with fixed monthly charges. Just for fun, with some spare cash, Qualcomm should rev up a pdQ business to show the rest how it should really be done. There's room for lots of others to make other devices. It's not as though Qualcomm needs to cover the whole range of possible devices. Just make the best phone each year, with 3 versions ["El Supremo", "Qualcomm Maintrack", and "Even You Can Afford This One"]. Qualcomm could lead the market, and the horde of licensees could follow in the slipstream [and excellent marketing and design place to be] with a myriad of devices to fit all market segments and technical requirements. Selling is easy too. Or marketing if you want to call it that. Most so-called marketers are full of jargon they learn in business school, or in MBA programs, but they are ineffectual. We even have a patented fold out little SmartBook ready to go. With mirasol, Snapdragon, methanol fuel cell, photovoltaic panel, FLO, and all mod cons of Anita [tm] variety, it would be the world's El Supremo device. We have the asics, we have the screen, we have the fold up design, we have the Android operating system, we just need some glue, some injection moulding for the case, maybe some Velcro, a few nice stickers, and a website for people to buy them. Easy peasy. I can get a good price on Vegemite. We'd need a methanol fuel cell too. Maybe ethanol. Mqurice