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To: engineer who wrote (9158)	3/10/1998 1:24:00 AM
From: Quincy	Respond to of 152472

I think everyone's first system is the size of a 2-drawer filing cabinet. B-) Eh, maybe next time they can use Qcom's MSM3K. That would truly be impressive. Might even fit inside Tero's 50gram phone with 40 hours of standby time. They get the power control, rake receivers, and 128K (receive) data, EVRC codec. All controlled by a risc processor optimized for software development and contained in a package that has 7th generation power consumtion (pretty darn low.) Was the entire feed 128K bps? Wasn't that what they promised for TDMA/GSM? Wideband CDMA could be the air-air interface of the year 2010 when the peripheral technology catches up (CCD cameras, direct-brain-display (no 3" LCD's), battery technology.) But, the UMTS compromise for TDMA based systems looks like a patch requested by the marketing department. Beginning to wonder if they would be better off sticking with a pure-CDMA wideband approach for the air-air interface. ibc-uk.com (top article) 2% of GSM users use data? How can they build a market plan for UMTS on that? Wideband CDMA needs an appliance before I plug into that hype machine.