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To: Les White who wrote (54151)	5/4/1998 11:14:00 PM
From: jwk	Respond to of 58324

Les -- guess that convergnece thing we used to talk about when Zip was new is still going on. Here's a couple of posts from a short while ago which anticipate the Samsung phone you posted about. I'm sure there's lots more like it coming out very soon. To: rocky haag (53647 ) From: jwk Sunday, Apr 26 1998 10:11AM ET Reply # of 54151 rocksta' -- Nice post on the Clik! news. Here's a post from another site which gives you an idea of where phones with which Clik! could be linked are rapidly heading. The stuff that pertains most directly to Clik! applications is in the final couple of paragraphs. See if you don't think there's at least a chance for Clik! to be a part of this emerging technology. The question will become: has your phone become a micro-computer, or has your computer become a mobile phone? ( IP telephony article at:https://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=4211782 ) and .............. To: Rocky Reid (53701 ) From: jwk Sunday, Apr 26 1998 5:47PM ET Reply # of 54151 Lumpy -- thanks for yet another tour of your home planet. >> There is an oversupply of portable memory products right now. << -try thinking of next generation, cross platform fully integrated portable devices. Increased portability, enhanced ease of use, lower cost, flexibiltiy - customization, etc. >> Folks, due to the laws of physics, any disc drive like Vapor! will be less reliable, have lower endurance, and use more power than a solid state device like Flash. << yada, yada, yada....... the only question that matters is whether or not there is a mass consumer market niche for the cost/performance parameters of Clik! Research seems to indicate that there certainly is. You don't think so. Yammer away all you want about it. We'll know for certain soon enough. And, please explain again why the Mavica digital camera with the 3.5 disk storage really isn't as popular as all the tests and reports say it is. >> Vapor! is just plain D.O.A. << Are you referring to Sony's Hi-Fud?