Re: Global Warming - a Liberal Scam?, (was Huge study about safety can be misinterpreted by SUV drivers)

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David J. Allen wrote:

> sales.  Another example is telecommunications.  Nokia has struggled with
> CDMA technology in the US because of the constant change and forward
> movement in technology here.  Europe would be happy to stay with GSM as a
> universal standard while US companies are pushing the technological
> envelope. 

You've picked a wrong example. GSM has been the leadership MA for many
years. How do I know this? I did mechanical design and development of 
GSM handsets for 6 years. CDMA was always behind the curve on new features.

And the reason was simple, european customers were willing to pay for those
features. In recent years CDMA has done alot of catchup, TDMA seems to be
dying out these days with AT&T and cingular heading towards GSM. (for
instance, motorola's never mass-marketed watch phone is/was GSM)

Now then there is all the politics around a 3G standard, etc etc, but 
there is nothing wrong with GSM nor has it failed to provide growth
of new handset technology. I cannot think of anything significant and one 
minor item that appeared on CDMA product before it appeared on a GSM 
product. This recent push-to-talk feature that simulates the propritary 
NEXTEL system that verizon wanted is about it.  

Come to think of it, alot of the big wiz-bang handset stuff comes on
phones made in japan to system they have there.... I forget what it's
called but it is a japan only MA.