Nokia Corporation (NOK)

[mjk]

Eric,

First of all, don't mean to post anything here that you don't want here since it's your board.

Second, are you not aware of the problems and recalls?

http://www.mountainwireless.com/nokianews.htm

Like I said, over the past several years Nok has had numerous problems. Just because Nok says they've shipped millions of phones, doesn't mean there weren't problems that caused lack of sales, recalls, and returns to Nok. I don't have all the original articles and press releases, but this mentions a few of the details.

Third, don't know what you mean about Korea proprietary interfaces that required Nok to use QCOM chips through Telson. There's nothing proprietary about the Korean system...they use the same QCOM chipsets used in the states. The cellular system uses the same RF freq's and PCS is offset slightly, does not mean the chipset is different. It's the same chipset for both Cellular and PCS systems in Korea and in the states. Yes, some Korean manufacturers deployed IS95B capable products for a short time before 1X, I just talked to my Korean co-worker who used to design phones in Korea and he thought there were thousands of IS95B products out of the millions of total CDMA products. I don't understand, if Nok had a working IS95A chipset and were selling phones in the states, why didn't they use that chipset in Korean phones? Could it be because of all the problems they were having? It's amazing to me how it was widely known through the wireless and financial communities that Nok was struggling with CDMA for years but you get a die-hard Nok fan and suddenly they've only had problems because of a slight misinterpretation of the specs. I was at QCOM when Nok was there looking to buy the handset division, they didn't have to tell us directly it was to help them with their handset development. Every problem they've had seems to have been blamed on the system, or could be corrected with a simple software fix.

I see you're another scrutinizer of QCOM's financials. QCOM was/is pushing a new technology. This required heavy investment on their part in small companies (and business initiatives) that may have not worked out. Many of these have/are not working out. Does not mean CDMA is not? No. So every quarter, like clockwork, QCOM writes down another investment loss. I don't like it because it could have been money in the bank, but did some of these investments help push CDMA, yes. Eventually, they won't have to write down investment losses, it was just a means to an end. If you think that Nok's got more future growth ahead of it than QCOM, you're in for a big shock.

"In regard to yourself. your posts don't seem to remotely reflect this although I must confess I've only scanned a few on Zeev's thread, and scanned ahead here
to a couple more. You might also want to read a few of extelcom's posts to various wireless boards before you make the value judgment you just made."

I don't care what you think, I've actually designed CDMA phones that sold in the marketplace. That were never recalled and that sold millions of units. There are millions of people using products that I worked on or lead and you don't think I have the right to respond to this inaccurate crap? As far as looking for my posts, I've only posted regarding this topic to extelecom, I don't post on the board on a regular basis.

Look, I know enough to say that an MSM has nothing to do with the RF frequency plan, obviously when someone posts such nonsense on a message board as a fact, they're setting themselves up to be corrected. And for extelecom to continue to post something incorrect over and over tells me he's an idiot. I don't care what experience he may have, he's wrong, he started the insults, so I corrected him.