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To: waitwatchwander who wrote (11011)	6/1/1998 4:07:00 PM
From: 2brasil	Respond to of 152472

Q PHONE discontinued new model in October is that true? i wanted to change my sprint pcs q phone as i had dropped it, I went to get prime co dual mode 2700 for my brother they also said it has been discontinued and will only offer sony phones? anyone help bruce

To: waitwatchwander who wrote (11011)	6/1/1998 5:45:00 PM
From: mrknowitall	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

GSM/CDMA phone down the road . . . If consumer demand drives it, yes, but I still think most individual customers are in the dark - they're looking at a confusing array of calling plans, weird ranges of $ and listening to sound quality and a bunch of drivel about features and options when most of them can't even do anything with the phone except answer a call and place one if they concentrate long enough to use the memory!! The other factor is the future churn rate - how many phones and at what discounted price can the vendors expect to sell in trying to get consumers to switch? Plus, the carriers are going to have to maintain existing network infrastructures as long as people hang on to their old, familiar, already-paid-for phones. IMHO, I can see an entire secondary "used" old-technology phone business starting up, and a vast market for "emergency" and back-up phones deployed to use the leftover capacity on the old networks. It's going to get really weird here in the next few months and years!!!