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

To: LarsA who wrote (102367)	5/30/2011 2:22:45 PM
From: brian h	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 197344

With your insight, you brought those good old days back. With your insight, Motorola's alpha-numeric text paging stuffs are sure to survive up to now. Motorola should not be unseated by Nokia and Ericsson then. Sanjay-Jha should not be MOT's CEO. Why do we need need Nokia's GPRS/EDGE cell phones? 1. Motorola's big analog "brick" cellphone is good enough to talk. 2. Motorola's alpha-numeric paging text pager can do both text and email as well. 3. US Robotic's 56K-128K modem is still working to surf the net. 4. Sony's Walkman/CD player is still OK to listen to music. 5. My Panasonic VHS tape player is still working fine to watch movie. 6. My Intel 386 PC is still working. 7. Garmin's Nuvi 350 costed me $700 initially still worked fine. 8. Palm PDA touch- screen with Microsoft Pock PC OS. 9 no need to have Li-ion battery. Ni-CaD/Ni-MH battery is still working. 10......... All of the above can be done in one with a today's "smartphone". Of course not Nokia's smartphone. It was not smart yet though it may well be the first one to come out a marketing term "smartphone". Qualcomm's "Smartbook" is another good example. So what is so good about Nokia or any GSM/GPRS/EDGE cell phones. Can you qualify these GPRS/EDGE phones as the most innovative electronic devices of that time? Are they not just mediocre in every way? Do you still want to live in good old days with a "GPRS/EDGE text only cellphone" with your true insight and knowledge? Hopefully the answer is no. :-)