User: alpha1
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April Fool's.. oh wait, its no longer April Fool's Day
Maybe Samsung took its cue from Google (albeit a little late in the month..) and decided to attempt to play its own lame version of april fool's prank...
Re: Lets get HSPA first..
Roadkill said:
That's already in the plan. AT&T says they will have their 3G network fully upgraded to HSPA by the end of 2008.
there are different categories (different download and upload rates) of HSDPA and HSUPA. Does att support the higher category hs phones by end of '08?
Lets get HSPA first..
how about deploying HSDPA and HSUPA before moving on to the technology that will only be ready for market in 10 years or so..
Re: First TATA, now Videocon
tuolumne said:
Man, these Indians are coming. :oops:
but how can you even compare.. TATA is a one of the best companies in India and is the other company even in that league??
TATA buying Jaguar will hopefully just revitalize the brand after freeing if from the free falling Ford Ltd. Motorola falling in line with this co. is going to be no good on the other hand.
Re: LOL my cousins Friend...
publicly traded on BSE (bombay stock exchange)..
http://www.bseindia.com/price_ finder/stockreach.asp?scripcd=511389
Re: America "Made In China"
Quite frankly, its not that we are lazy etc (infact, probably us univerisities and companies yet probably total the highest number of patents and inventions).. its just economics.. when you get something for usd 1, there is no point in paying usd 10..
btw, videocon sucks.. crappy products (they sell consumer electronics etc), full of debt etc..
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t &ct=us/1-1&fp=47f6ca104f14feee&ei=7Bf2R8nWBI7 8_AHk0p3SCQ&url=http%3A//www.chicagotribune.c om/business/chi-thu-videocon-motorola-mot-apr 03%2C1%2C182043.story&cid=1147615144&usg=AFrq Ezdoar_tSvaZKr6FnJpNJL-yqyWzbQ
If Motorola Handsets has to be bought out by a foreign company, hope its not videocon....
Re: i know
thats the same thing that probably people thought in the 90's.. why need this interconnected network.. maybe things will start moving on to the wireless world and you have mobile servers spitting out the services previously confined to the server farms.. who knows.
Re: Cool!!
not really a new era.. greg brown has held the reins at the company for almost a year under Zander as COO and prior to that led their infrastructure group for a while too..
good for moto
hopefully now they can get back to becoming better again
High End .. Really... ???
A 3 MP camera phone shld not be considered high-end (simply bcoz the same co. brings out 5 mp+ cameras in its home market)
Re: I do not think that AT&T and others should prorate the ETFs, but should increase.
reading my post,, one correction.. iphone is an "aspirational" product.. though inspirational might not be that off.. it inspires you to see that you can really set yourself apart from the crowd if you want to. :-)
Re: I do not think that AT&T and others should prorate the ETFs, but should increase.
nextel18 said:
Of course, they can. They can do whatever they want.
no the telecom comps cannot just raise prices,, they wish though that they could.. if they try to, all that will end up happening is a new Google of Telecom coming up.. and thats just not conducive to a long term future of the companies in the business now.
Re: I do not think that AT&T and others should prorate the ETFs, but should increase.
iPhone is an exception.. its an inspirational (or in other words, a cult-following) product.. so people will pay for it..
how many of such phones come out in a year... maybe one or two.. the last was the original razr (much maligned & "colored" now after reigning on the wishlists for a while)..
most of the things you mentioned are for biz users.. people are not spending their own money so they do not care.. but the ...
Re: I do not think that AT&T and others should prorate the ETFs, but should increase.
nextel18 said:
It doesn’t matter if costs go up? Of course, it does because then that is what defines the price points for their additions and regular plans. They always can pass it onto the customer.
where is the proof that they can
Re: I do not think that AT&T and others should prorate the ETFs, but should increase.
nextel18 said:
Good then they should up the ETF to around $500+ then for breaking this contract.
they cannot.. there is no market appetite for this..
Re: I do not think that AT&T and others should prorate the ETFs, but should increase.
it doesn't matter if costs go up.. the question is do they (the big bad att,vzw) have the ability to pass it on in a market where new customers are increasingly difficult to find..
the answer is not clear that they can pass on the costs.. It is a corporate argument of predicting gloom and doom saying costs will rise if things are not the way they are.. They have to do this (infact they should act ...
Re: I do not think that AT&T and others should prorate the ETFs, but should increase.
its just a publicity stunt to keep regulation at a minimum..
btw, i dont believe your point that the price points will increase significantly without big time contracts.
after all the logic is simple, the US is a saturated market and by increasing the prices too much, all they are going to do is rush to the Nokia/US model of direct sales sooner than later. This cannot be in the carrier interest as then they loose a lot ...
Re: I do not think that AT&T and others should prorate the ETFs, but should increase.
pls wake yourself up and recognize. the carriers are not doing this out of compassion and heart for their customers.. these are the same bullies who in lockstep all agreed to almost abolish the 1 year contracts .
They have to do this to keep govt out of their biz.. there was too much noise recently about trying to bring in bills that would do things similar to this.
sorry, but I absolutely have no liking ...
what happened to MOTOMAGX linux revolution?
Moto, giving up on the free-world idea already?
Re: whats UIQ?
http://www.uiq.com/uiqplatform.html
Re: Ouch
Wireless Buddy said:
Jayshmay said:
Aren't all 3G handsets qualcomm chip based?
Yes, and all CDMA handsets are Qualcomm based.
not true.. all 3g handsets are not qcom based..
qcom just has a good chunk of patents for the cdma tech.. so they bully the market around.. now somebody else is trying to play QCOM's dirty tricks on QCOM itself.. what u sow , so shall u reap.. :lol:
Re: Ouch
sangyup81 said:
If we are talking worldwide, then yes, TI dominates.
This injunction doesn't involve worldwide sales, it involves US sales. And on every 3G Cingular phone, I've seen the Qualcomm sticker. Does this mean Qualcomm has a lock on the W-CDMA 850/1900 dual mode chips?
not true, there probably must have been some cing 3g phones with other chipsets.. say Nokia N75 ( NOK-QCOM combo does not exist mostly ).. or how abt the Moto 3G Cingular phone ...
Re: Telecom Neologism
cool .. now petition Webster/Oxford to include it in the English lang..
Re: Ouch
W-CDMA : Wideband - CDMA (wideband bcoz of 5 Mhz band of spectrum)
Re: Ouch
Jayshmay said:
Aren't all 3G handsets qualcomm chip based?
Also what I don't understand about WCDMA is, I understand that it is a evolution of CDMA, but why is an evolution of CDMA also a next step for GSM, being 3G handsets???
Absolutely not, majority of 3G handsets (including those marketed by the leader in the 3G space.... Nokia... ) are not QCOM based.
QCOM chipsets are in heavy use in the EVDO 3G (the one used by VZW and Sprint etc).. whereas ...
Re: Ouch
stoopered said:
As far as I know W-CDMA is only used in Japan right now. I think VW should have waited, but I'm curious how this will work out for them.
wcdma is now used pretty much all over the developed countries. in the US, ATT uses it. pretty much all Euro carriers have migrated to it. China has its own flavor (TD-CDMA), but plans to give out licenses for WCDMA also (hopefully in time for olympics) etc etc..
in ...
RIMM has higher market cap than MOT
wow....
http://blogs.business2.com/utility belt/2007/07/stock-market-ri.html
Re: I'm actually more surprised...
well Nokia almost has a controlling stake in
Nokia-Siemens NW (which also is probably mostly wireless, but yet they are not a pure cell phone play)
While SonyEric might not be a direct public co, they are owned 50-50 by their 2 public parents.. so the pressure would be pretty much almost the same as a public company (since the parent's shares do move when SE gives out its results)..hence making it a psuedo-public co itself
AAPL/ NOK shld just buyout MOT
wldnt it be an easy case of putting MOTO out of its misery and under the more capable management from NOK ??
If the MOT-NOK merger would not fly with regulators, how abt AAPL buying out MOT?
AAPL gets an immediate presence in the wireless market (to capitalize the iPhone brand even more).. an iRAZR (lol)
See this article from March.. its kind of making some sense..
http://ce.seekingalpha.com/article /30580
Re: Ed Zander
alpha1 said:
oh and dont forget the usual stock market gibberish.. the so called synergies obtained by merging.. so all in all its definetely possible..
but moto should not go after the niche players like RIM or PALM or HTC etc.. that will be too expensive (something like 10-15 bil).. instead buy the bigger wireless players for maybe double that amount
OR how about this thought..
APPLE should buy out MOTO CELL PHONE DIVISION.. :D
Re: Ed Zander
oh and dont forget the usual stock market gibberish.. the so called synergies obtained by merging.. so all in all its definetely possible..
but moto should not go after the niche players like RIM or PALM or HTC etc.. that will be too expensive (something like 10-15 bil).. instead buy the bigger wireless players for maybe double that amount
Re: Ed Zander
sure.. they have 15 or so bil in cash.. just get some debt on the books (ie mortgage the future) and call it a merger of "equals" and it can be done
Re: Go Samsung!
i just never like the keypads on SE phones
Re: Ed Zander
alpha1 said:
Omagus said:
Well, the fact of the matter is that both manufacturers AND carriers place phones in categories and those categories are high end, mid-level and entry level. There's nothing inherently wrong with the labels. The do need to figure out who's likely to want a $700 phone with everything packed in to it and who just wants a phone to make and receive phones calls.
And I would not at all be surprised to see Motorola in ...
Re: Ed Zander
Omagus said:
Well, the fact of the matter is that both manufacturers AND carriers place phones in categories and those categories are high end, mid-level and entry level. There's nothing inherently wrong with the labels. The do need to figure out who's likely to want a $700 phone with everything packed in to it and who just wants a phone to make and receive phones calls.
And I would not at all be surprised to see Motorola in a ...
Re: I'm actually more surprised...
Jayshmay said:
I don't even pay any attention to Keyocera!!!
:D
Re: Ed Zander
well he shld get credit for supervising the marketing genius who led the razr marketing campaign..
besides that, unfortunately, he has run the company into the ground
Re: nokia will always be number one
thats tough, if apple insists on selling at usd 500 pricepoint, esp in usa where majority want free phones. so to go with a brand such as apple, ppl might shell out a grand or so, not 5-6 grand
Re: I'm actually more surprised...
Jayshmay said:
I agree, I would have guessed that LG would definetly be ahead of SE.
The Cybershot brand is an awesome handset, but it's not yet available through either of the 2 GSM carriers in the U.S.!!!!
quite frankly, sony eric is probably even behind kyocera in usa.. they primarily sell into europe
Re: Ed Zander
i hope somebody flushes out Ed and his buddies on the board.
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