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To: Dave who wrote (1239)	12/13/1998 7:53:00 AM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Dave. How could you? The latest Nokia models weigh less and give five times higher stand-by times. Hope you're happy with using a single line display without dynamically changing font sizes that are adjusted unprompted. What's this unhealthy obsession with flip phones anyway? Nokia has succesfully outflanked the flip phones in Europe and Asia by introducing models with sliding covers. People tend to either love them or hate them, but Ericsson, Motorola and other companies split the consumers who want flip phones - Nokia gets almost all of the sliding-cover aficionados (though Philips now also has a bizarre copycat model in this category). Coming up with a novel design solution sounds better to me than competing with Motorola in flip phones - a category that Mot created and shaped. Never fight the battles your enemy picks, as Sun Tzu put it (or somebody). It's an open question when Nokia will bring these 8xxx models to USA - the flagship model is as small as the smallest Startac, but with a sliding cover. So far Nokia has deemed the US market too small for pricy luxury models, but I really hope they change their mind next year. I'm sure the US market for executive models is big enough to justify the launch. Tero