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To: BOGEY who wrote (821)	8/3/1998 11:25:00 AM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 34857

This is brilliant... I could have sworn that Nokia won't get the 5100 to the US market before year's end. This company is so good at keeping their product development under wraps and then springing surprises on customers and competition alike. Compare this to Ericsson's strategy of pre-announcing its worldphone by 18 months. The strategic mission of 5100 in Europe was to bring high-end features like endless stand-by time to a low-priced vehicle. This has totally wrong-footed Siemens and Philips, who built their 1998 strategy on relatively expensive models. This could be just the right pre-emptive strike against Motorola... Mot is bringing expensive new models to US market in the fourth quarter in an attempt to re-establish itself as a prestige brand. Let's hope they misjudged consumer sentiment completely and now get chewed up by the 6100 and 5100 phones that were designed to exploit a market shift to cheaper models. There are only Finns on the covers of Forbes and Businessweek this week... it must be an omen. Linus Torvalds is Finland's smarter, hipper, poorer version of Bill Gates. Since Linux, the Finnish operating system used by 7,5 million people, is freeware it won't turn Torvalds into a billionaire. But it has made him vastly more popular than the Seattle Antichrist. Tero