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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (12232)	7/13/1998 8:19:00 PM
From: Asterisk	Respond to of 152472

I would also like to thank Tero for standing in there and taking the successive body blows to his arguments. Obtuse or not he is an extremely valuable asset to this thread, he keeps us honest. One thing that I think that many people are missing here is in the design practicality of the phones that QCOM has put out. I think that anyone out there who designs RF for a living will agree that to design a pulsed power transmission phone (TDMA or GSM) where the output is only on for their specific time slots is infinitely easier than designing a full duplex system (AMPS and CDMA). I would be willing to bet that much of the current size of any CDMA phone is due to the inherent design difficulties that the full duplex (Recieve and Transmit both going at once) presents to the RF engineer. In the past as technologies have matured they have gotten smaller as more and more has been put onto ASICS. This is an important thing. GSM has been around for a while, it has had time to roll more and more into ASICS and combined with the simpler RF design aspects the form factor shows it. If you want to see a small CDMA phone pick up either a Sony Z100 or Qualcomm Q phone when they are transmitting at the edge of coverage they WILL be warm. They are pushing the design envelope and it shows. Wait a few years and it will be obvious which standard has won the form factor and design wars. Also, for those out there with large bodies (like me) it is nice to have a larger phone. With the larger phone you get a larger battery (longer talk and standby times) and a larger useable keyboard. I currently own and regularly use a Q phone. I preferred the feel of the QCP-2700 but my company gave me this one instead. Form factor follows use, it is that simple. If a big guy wants to use a phone he will not pick one up that looks like it was made by Swatch, as a general rule he will get one that looks like it was made by Mack. It is all a matter of tastes.