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To: Renby Cage who wrote (13926)	8/19/1998 8:16:00 AM
From: Webster	Respond to of 152472

Renby, Your first paragraph to Tero is the start of one heck of a fine trash book. Serpa, her younger sister, a Roll Royce, some fat guy who gets dumped... Then you go on to write about some world phone. I am not sure what is better your comments about the getting to qcom's 200 and 500 party or reading about Serpa and her sister. Even Tero must appreciate the way you can handle dual topics in the same post. Thanks Web.

To: Renby Cage who wrote (13926)	8/19/1998 8:29:00 AM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Hmmm... that was fascinating in some warped kind of way... some of the verisimilitude was lost when you consistently misspelled her name... that's I, not E, if it's a Finnish name. The problem with Qualcomm's technology, of course, it's the way it fails to live up to the world class hype. Wall Street Journal: GSM has better voice quality than CDMA. Businessweek: Nokia's 6100 series is the hottest phone in USA. Forbes: Qualcomm is not competitive in wideband-CDMA and IS-95 has benefited from a nationalistic bias. It's not like even American commentators were bowled over by Qcom's technology. I find it strange that CDMA phones are trailing GSM phones so badly in key specs like weight, stand-by time, voice quality, design, etc... yet Qualcomm is still placidly continuing its hypefest about "technological superiority". Couldn't they visit some retail outlet for a reality check? The customers will. Tero