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To: Ramsey Su who wrote (5881)	12/1/1997 6:24:00 PM
From: Webster	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Ramsey, Now my second time on the SI qcom board. Bill Freeza has been waging an unsuccessful PR battle against cdma for the last two years. He has a web site that has been dead of any real discussion for several months. Someone will paste the Freeza forum CDMA point-counterpoint address. It used to have some good discussion but lately it has been dead. I'm sure you will hear more of the same from others. WEB

To: Ramsey Su who wrote (5881)	12/1/1997 11:19:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Ramsey, yep, while my little boy is getting cylcophosphamide dripped into his veins as I write, by nurses who wear protective clothing, I see the Russians have kidnapped a Qualcomm employee for spying using one of them newfangled GPS spy satellite machines which tell the USA where the buildings are in Rostov. I'd make a geopolitical rant about deflation, competitive money printing by Japan, Korea and USA to stabilize their financial systems, but I'm not in the mood right now. Bill Frezza tempts me. But with monoclonal antibodies in my dreams, angiogenesis inhibitors, necrosis factors, flow cytometry being much more familiar lingo than erlangs at wave functions, I can't raise a head of steam. GSM vs cdmaOne seems like fighting over whether aluminium or steel horseshoes give better performance with Draught rather than Arab horses. cdmaWon! Now it is just a matter of stacking up the money. But I did take the trouble to read the list of Q-Phone versus Sony Z! It didn't make happy reading for the Q-Phone. I sent an email asking about the talk time for the Z which was much better than the Q. Here is the reply: "Checking the Qualcomm page, I see that Qualcomm Q phone states up to 1 1/2 hours talk time with the standard battery and up to 2 hours with the extended battery. I've never seen an extended battery so I am not sure about it's performance. The one thing I didn't like about the Q's battery was the "short" talk time. For a lithium ion battery, it should be more. When I had the Q, I don't think I ever got 1 1/2 hours of talk time (because the phone was on standby alot). I remember the battery was always going dead so I routinely carried around 2 batteries per day. Not so with the Z. I've seen from a low of 2 hours to a high of 2 1/2 hours talk time. So far, I'm okay with the one battery I have. It does take a while to fully charge up though. 5 hours + ? The Z battery is a lithium ion battery that appears to be larger than the Q's battery but still lighter. I use to own the analog Sony and that battery performed like a champ! I sometimes talked for 30 minutes after the beeper warned of low battery power! Don't expect any of these batteries to last as long as the original Qualcomm phones. Today, though you have GSM phones with standby times of 7-10 days and talk times over 4 hours easily. Thanks for your comments. Ken S. Minneapolis, Minnesota USA ------------------------------------------------------------------- ---Maurice Winn <mqurice@ihug.co.nz> wrote: > Thanks for the comparison of Q phone with the Sony! I really appreciate it. > > I'm a long time Qualcomm fan club member and investor. The thing that really struck me was the talk time seems much much better with the Sony. > Is that correct? Even though lighter. They are certainly doing a very very good job reading through your comparison. > > I thought the Sony was very attractive. I was interested that my son thought it looked silly with the little lever arm, like a crank handle. > > Overall, from your list, the Sony seems much better than the Q-Phone! > Eeekkk! > > If you can take a second and confirm the relative talk times I'd appreciate > it. 2.5 hours versus 1.5 for Q. Not good. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Just on the India WLL prices. I think you got a zero in the wrong place Caxton! The prices the guy quoted were passably correct [though a fair bit on the high side]. The comments from the techies put it in its place, so I don't need to add more. Another "Nationalist" making a plea to rip off his countrymen. We have them here too and they are endemic in most countries. The Japanese insist on eating the world's most expensive rice so that they can withstand a siege! Talk about mad.....it's really just to get the rice grower vote. Same as the crazy yanks fermenting ethanol from crops then burning it in their cars instead of drinking it! Heck, well over my quota. Have to go pick up a daughter. Qualcomm almost back on all time high. Mqurice