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To: qdog who wrote (7031)	1/12/1998 4:42:00 PM
From: Quincy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Change of topic: CES. Where was the Nokia booth? Sands convention center had the duelling broadway shows of Ericy and Motorola which were distracting from the "good stuff" and neither provided useful information. At least Mot avoided the "James Bond" trap that swallowed Ericy like a pothole deep enough for a Festiva. Where was that new Ericy PDA featured in the movie? Well, they had one in a glass case and literature. None for the unwashed masses to play with... "Ericsson manufactured. Bond Approved." Something like that. Ericy was showing "wireless Internet" in the form of a flip-top "VeloMate" with an IR link to a module that plugs into the bottom of their phones. It runs WindowsCE at high-speeds in a slow-GSM sort of way... No information on WCDMA from anyone. Motorola's booth was better. It had chairs (for taking a necessary break on the daily 10-mile trek) and phones that actually worked and let you call anywhere domestic for a test drive. I'd like to rant on payphones around Vegas. But, unless you are staying at a hotel soo swank that the payphones are gold-plated, prepare to pop in $0.35 for an 800 calling card. No matter what. Motorola's IS95 offerings are still limited to the SC725, et al. They call these the "6V" phones. IS95A Startac was estimated to arrive next year when they get "3V" chips working. Qcom did not have a booth. But, if you managed to hold on to the MSFT bag long enough to make it to the Airtouch Paging booth, you could ditch BillyBob's Bag for a way-cool Qcom/Globalstar/Air-Touch bag to visit Ericy's booth with. Armed with the Qcom bag, about 20 people stopped me to ask where the Qualcomm booth was. Maybe next year? Samsung should have both 800mhz and PCS versions of their phones real soon now (similar to those presently available from Sprint.) On a different note... I am glad we waited for the US standard for HDTV. It's high-res modes are just as clear as the Analog Japanese HDTV standard. At least Sony announced the ability to record 2 hours of it on a cassette that is 1.5 times the size of a VHS cassette. After seeing the staggering price tags for the otherwise cool-looking HDTV monitors, I am hoping that Texas Instruments "Digital Light Processing" Technology will undercut costs by half. DLP is a chip with millions of tiny mirrors suspended on "actuators". TI demonstrated that it worked. Now if they can get the defect rate down to nil and start cranking them out, HDTV projectors might be cheaper than direct-view CRT's... Sun's Java won the big CES prize with the TCI deal. I would have gone to Mr. Gates speech (If only I had a handheld PA system with the Simpsons bully character "HaHa" soundbite, and enough bail money.)