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To: JMD who wrote (2714)	1/28/1999 1:17:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

Not so fast Mike, I was asking Clark whether a multiband cellphone would work very well because different wavelengths need different aerials for optimum performance and he explained that while that is true, a little aerial can pick up some signal even if it is a 100 metre wavelength, but it is just not as powerful. I'm doubtful about these smartypants multiband, multimode, software do everything cellphones with tiny aerials. Maybe when things are really supersonic in a decade or so, but they seem likely to be too expensive, big, heavy and inadequate due to compromised performance for the forseeable future, which is 5 minutes from now [I'm locked in a concrete bunker, 300 metres underground and there are no incoming nukes or comets so that should be a safe forseeable future]. I think they are a way for the likes of Ericy to think they can squeeze a bit more life out of GSM. The real answer will be Globalstar for out in the bush and cdmaOne or WWeb for terrestrial, overlaid on GSM, TDMA and analogue. There won't be any serious demand for multi this, that and the other. Maybe there will be a bit, as there will be for those phones which they claim are good for email, Web, checking sports scores, stocks and the like. The functionality of those handsets seems so pathetic to me that I can't believe many other than a few technofreaks will buy them for sports scores and stocks - the rest of us will wait until we can get WWeb in colour on a decent sized screen - long and narrow with easy scrolling. Even the pdQ seems too limited to be a real hit - the Web aspects aren't going to be used easily enough. Son of pdQ might be more like it. 'Multimode' will be a weak niche product. Chips still cost money and people won't pay for something like that if it is less functional due to battery draining, weight and performance degradation. I don't recall saying little aerials won't affect reception as it seems to me they should. If I said that, I hereby change my mind. But the battery size shouldn't make a difference other than to how long it takes to go flat. Size does matter in batteries of a feather. A little methanol fuel cell job seems the ideal. Hmmm, liposuction plus methanol in a cell phone.......works in rockets! Imagine the battery life. Heck, Ted Kennedy likes ethanol so he could run the cellphone directly with no battery. Probably indefinitely with his normal tallow/ethanol content. Ethanol is similar to methanol though hugely less toxic - 20 ml of methanol will kill a lot of people - LD50 about that much - though Ted could probably get away with 100ml and still survive because ethanol is the antidote - seriously I kid not, methanol poisoned people get some protection from ethanol. DO NOT TEST THIS AT HOME OR YOU WILL LIKELY DIE!!! Ted could launch a Globalstar satellite, then power it for the life of the satellite. Singlelovehandedly..... Maybe there is a BIG market for such a system. Maurice PS: The gizzards design should also make a difference to getting a good connection...