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To: JGoren who wrote (19052)	12/2/1998 8:02:00 PM
From: w molloy	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 152472

Query regarding impact of Sony 'phones on a CDMA network. Does anyone know 'where' the power problem is manifested; the CDMA side? AMPS side? CDMA networks closely monitor and regulate handset transmission power. The network has the option of shutting down rogue handsets that don't comply. Is this how the Sony problem was detected? One wonders how the Sony handsets made it through compliance checks and field trials. I understand that the Sony handsets use QCOM chips and software. One has to think that QCOM 'phones may also be recalled. w.

To: JGoren who wrote (19052)	12/2/1998 10:35:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

JGoren, the Sony recall will be a QPE problem or even purely a QUALCOMM problem as QPE probably contracts with Q! to get good software delivered to control the handset power. This definitely comes into the rework category as per the 10K report recently. More loss off the bottom line. It won't be Sony's problem. Other than their brand image, which I'm sure they are quite particular about. There will be some unhappy conversations about this in HQ. Meanwhile, hot off the press from Tarken in Japan: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Message 1. I got myself a cellphone today... 81 grams, 300 number and name storage, displays how much time and $$$ you have used, vibrates, 200 hour standby, 110 minutes talk time,sends email etc. cost 3885 yen (NZ$50) on a 6 month contract. Message 2. The japs have finally figured out that without a contract they are destined to lose money if they give away the phone!! Contracts are now 6 month. I saw Leonardo DiCaprio advertising cdmaOne phones on TV the other day, but as CDMA is not yet available in this area, I didn't get one, and haven't seen any. Mine is wicked though... I just got a call from Kate, and discovered that it has caller ID too - kinda useful. It weighs next to nothing, and is tiny - slightly smaller than Nahoko's old one? Iridium phones are advertised all over the place, but I have yet to see one. I'll keep looking. Yeah, my phone has an alarm clock, turns itself on and off at specified times, keeps track of calls made and received (time and cost), stores 300 numbers, has 200 hour standby, with 100 minute talk (I think it might last for 200 hours if you talk for 100 minutes, but I'm not sure yet). One interesting point is that it is "satellite compatible". I don't know what that means, but it sounds interesting. OK I just checked the brochure and... NTT has 2 satellites (geostationary) that it uses for satellite telephony. They call it the N-STAR system. You can buy single mode or dual mode satellite phones that are small briefcase size (2.7 kg, 260mm x 185mm x 60mm) and use them anywhere within Japan. You can also get car satellite phones. I think "satellite compatible" means I can plug this phone into one of the car units, and use the satellites? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Mqurice *OT Rant about ancient history unrelated to Q!* Nihil, thanks for the details on WWII. New Zealand's involvement was more than blood being thicker than water. Of course there were interests too, such as NZ being the food supply for Britain, which supplied cars etc. I think the philosophical basis common to Great Britain and New Zealand was also important and of course the philosophical basis of freedom derived from Britain, France and the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. For example, Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite. We could go back further to the Magna Carta and stuff like that. Which of course also formed the philosophical underpinnings of the USA. Although many in the USA today believe their philosophical values originated in the USA and its constitution, those values in fact derived from British concepts of freedom, capitalism, private property, the individual versus the state and so on back to and including Christianity, Greek stuff and so on. The statue of liberty coming from France. So there is a long history for the idea of freedom from the tribe. Unfortunately, as you say, we seem to have to refight the battle endlessly. Today in NZ, tribalism is becoming more powerful with the individual remaining subsumed by the great and glorious state. We have also re-instituted Maori tribes and legislation for apartheid with racial preferences. So Maoris have a double slavery - that to the tribe and then to the State. Of course, taxpayers are enslaved by both since the Maori tribes are funded by taxpayers. I suppose it is part of the human condition, handed down from Chimpanzee communities a million years ago. So it won't end any time soon. Then again, maybe it will end with the Web taking over and we'll be subordinate to it - just little 3D 'real world' interactors to sustain it. While we argue interminably over who is the boss of the world, the Web just sneaks up behind us, within us, among us. I don't feel like Web dinner, but maybe that's all I am. I'm sure humans aren't the evolutionary endpoint of existence. Quite a disappointment if we are.