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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (22125)	1/28/1999 4:46:00 PM
From: bananawind	Respond to of 152472

Both models support state-of-the-art phone, pager, voice-mail and data transfer features and will offer a number of innovative metallic color options in addition to black.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (22125)	1/28/1999 4:52:00 PM
From: JMD	Respond to of 152472

Hi Maurice, while I do not have equal zeal for Eudora, it does seem to be a handy little nipper to have around the shop. Can't imagine it's costing the Q that much dough to keep on hand but what's really puzzling is the Mighty Q's peppy price action today. Granted the tech stock market is hotter than a pistol, but it doesn't figure that +5 on just slightly above average volume could be a reaction to the rumor that Eudora's gonna be put on the block. I find myself siding with the "something's up" camp and speculate that Ericy is going to fess up to having swallowed a whole load of hagfish. They're going to make it look like a victory of course, but methinks we're very near to those bad boys throwing in the towel. And I hereby promise to be an incredibly immature, gloating, vengeful, and otherwise first class jerk when they do! Poor tero--he's gonna fill his britches when his beloved Ericy does the old swan dive. Rock on. Surfer Mike

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (22125)	1/28/1999 4:57:00 PM
From: Bux	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

The 4 inches by 1/2 inch size of the Thinphone is taken from gadgetguru.com. I am taking these dimensions with a grain of salt since Q is mum on this but the thickness you heard (8 mm) could be consistent with the 12.5 mm listed on gadgetguru if the earpiece protrudes 4.5 mm. That's almost thin enough to use as a vegemite spreader! The only potential problem is this phone just begs to be stuck in your back pocket. If the case is not rigid enough to withstand the leverage applied while sitting, the returns could be costly.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (22125)	1/28/1999 6:37:00 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

If you do the math, it turns out to be 113 grams for 4 ounces. I don't know what the real grams are for it. The picture is real.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (22125)	1/29/1999 9:46:00 AM
From: DaveMG	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Updated and weirder than yesterday... Posted 29/01/99 10:05am by Tony Smith Qualcomm to drop Eudora? Qualcomm looks set to sell or close its Eudora Internet software division, according to anonymous sources cited on US Web site MacOS Rumors and allegedly confirmed by sources at Apple and Qualcomm. However, Franklin Antonio, Qualcomm's CTO, denied the rumours. "Eudora division is not closing nor being sold. We are very proud of Eudora. It is an excellent ongoing business," he told The Register. The questions about Eudora's future ultimately follow Qualcomm's acquisition of utilities specialist Now Software back in November 1997. The company was bought to allow Qualcomm to integrate Now's eponymous contact manager and personal organiser software (it sold off Now's other utilities to Power On Software last year) into the Eudora line of email software. The acquisition, the oh-so-slow development of Eudora Planner (as Now's PIM has now become), falling sales of Eudora Pro (Eudora Lite has always been available free of charge) in the face of solid email applications being bundled with the leading Web browsers, and its advertising-funded email-for-life service less popular than those offered by top-ranking portals like NetCenter and Excite, has hit the division's finances hard. Meanwhile, it is being claimed that Microsoft, now a partner with Qualcomm thanks to the latter's decision to use Windows CE instead of Palm OS for a forthcoming Internet-enabled cellphone, has been pressuring the telecoms company to drop Eudora too. Certainly Eudora Lite is one of the biggest obstacles to Microsoft Outlook Express' domination of the email software market (such as it is). The sources claim no final decision has been made on the Eudora division's future, but Qualcomm -- better known as a telecoms infrastructure company; the fit with Eudora was always a puzzling one -- does appear to be looking either at a sale -- in fact, it may have been touting the business to possible buyers for some time -- or simply shutting the division down. ® theregister.co.uk Mq...I guess I don't really understand your Eudora fascination. My Dad is one of the millions of academics who use it and swear by it along with his Mac.Over the past couple of years I've spent some time using his various machines and as far as I can tell both Eudora and Macs are no better than MSFT products,most of the best stuff has already been lifted. I hear repeatedly that if you look under the hood the Mac is much more elegant but I try to refrain from getting my hands dirty. In fact I've become a firm believer in the "if it isn't broke don't fix it school".I once downloaded Eudora Lite and was unable to get it working properly. After about an hour I gave up, no regrets. As for eyeballs, most Eudora users probably aren't aware of Qualcomms ownership.Q has probably learned most everything they need to know about how to use email for wireless purposes. I'm not saying I think they should sell since I don't know if or how much it's costing, I just don't understand why those eyeballs are worth it. Isn't WK going to be Q's "internet" presence? Content and service, everything both QCOM and MSFT have learned about email. And what's this nonsense about Q using CE for its next gen cellphones? My bet is that everyone one of these "rumors" are false..No infra sale, no phone manufacturing sale, no Eudora sale.The trading is still dominated by small time chimps like ourselves, people afraid they're being left behind, "Q is finally breaking out".Well we'll see won't we. Hopefully though,some more healthy partnerships... Dave