from the developer of CDMA

by one 2 Replies latest jw friends

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  one

  http://www.qualcomm.com/brew/about/aboutbrew.html

  Soon there will more than one way to meet people live without traveling, here is one:

  "Imagine listening to music, watching videos, sending and receiving email, locating friends and family, playing interactive games and much more, all from your mobile phone. QUALCOMM's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless™ (BREW™) makes it all possible today. "

  QUALCOMM's BREW platform is a thin applications environment that provides an open, standard platform for wireless devices - from inexpensive, mass-market cell phones through high-end, multi-purpose wireless devices.
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  Thanks to the CDMA (a truly efficient digital comm. protocol for phones) patent Qualcomm stock price went up about 3000% in no time around 1999, then came 21 century and G. Bush. History repeat itself, only sometimes with different characters.
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  Jourles

  Imagine listening to music, watching videos, sending and receiving email, locating friends and family, playing interactive games and much more, all from your mobile phone.

  I'm sorry, but to "imagine" these apps and actually having them is two different things. Some of us may have lived in an area and had the opportunity to actually live the above scenario. The technology? Ricochet. Its average download speed was in the 175kbps range, and sometimes surpassing 300kbps with the Sierra Wireless Aircard 400. And btw, those mentioned speeds were not the "theoretical burst data rate" that cellular companies tout, but rather the seen user data rate. Go to http://www.aerienetworks.com to see the Ricochet redeployment progress.

  Besides, who wants to surf the web on a 1 1/2" screen?? Give me my HP Jornada 720 anyday for handheld portability and wireless internet access. Too bad it is not being used much these days since Metricom went bankrupt. I guess I have to wait for Aerie to bring Ricochet back.
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  one

  Blame the pentagon, partially, for the delay between 'imagine' and 'having'.

  They dont want to release the spectrum for true 3G to become a reality, but the techonolgy is ready.

  And just last february FCC approved the ULTRA-WIDEBAND technology, but a bunch of opposers just started to make some noise.

  Telecom, too may thing happening at once. The restritive definition for "time" by Twain, (someone quotes it every so often on this board) is not applying. It is a phenomenon.