Ericsson (Ericy)

[Eric]

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<< Strange lack of true info. on what is going on with WCDMA and especially handsets ... >>

A very seldom but very in the know "in the industry" European poster whose inputs I value highly recently posted this elsewhere:

After trying a lot of 3G WCDMA phones from different vendors I am now pretty sure that WCDMA will be a success.I think the major technical obstacles have been solved.It can still take some time before we see 3G mobiles in the stores but not to long.The phones that will be sold will have for example the possibility to surf and talk at the same time and make handover between GSM and UMTS.So the coverage of the UMTS networks wont be a problem.

Another poster responded to him with the question, "what applications interested you on these phones?" and the original poster replied:

I have mostly used standard IP applications like webbrowsing to see the quality of the packet service. But if you do standard webrowsing with 384 kbps you get a good idea how the networks and applications can be when they are in service. But most of the phones are also equipped with a camera so you can do videotelephony and that works well also.

I've compiled a list and links of the 3GSM WCDMA handsets that arew coming tomarket with links here:

http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=565173

Thanks for the BW article link. That was quite good.

Best,

- Eric -