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To: veritas501 who wrote (103)3/20/2011 10:58:44 AM
From: JeffreyHF
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Why don't you add up all the CDMA2000, WCDMA, and TD-SCDMA subscribers worldwide, and tell us how many CDMA subs there already are?

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From: veritas5013/23/2011 10:51:25 AM
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It's illustrative of Qualcomm's "other people's property is Qualcomm's property" attitude that people are posting entire articles to the other Qualcomm forums. Maybe posters should show the same respect for other people's property that Qualcomm demands for its own.

Gee, what a radical thought!!!

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From: veritas5015/1/2011 3:51:08 PM
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Nokia Siemens has completed the acquisition of Motorola's wireless infrastructure business. Now, all the major CDMA infrastructure manufacturers are in European hands:

Nortel is part of Ericsson;

Motorola is part of Nokia Siemens;

Lucent is part of Alcatel-Lucent.

I also noticed the CDG still hasn't published the subscriber numbers for the 4th quarter of 2010. Gee, it's May 1, I wonder why they're not available since CDMA is, like everyone knows, growing gangbusters.

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From: veritas5016/5/2011 6:18:03 PM
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Well, the CDG has finally come clean on CDMA subscriber figures.

The year over year increase in CDMA subscribers is 9.28% or 49 million.

Latin America declined again. North America increased by just 9.5 million subscribers, the smallest increase since December 1997. Africa declined too.

cdg.org

Here's the question: When does optimism turn into fraud?

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From: veritas5016/6/2011 6:44:52 AM
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Mirasol, Mirasol, where art thou?

From Wired Magazine:

Black-and-white e-readers are limiting while full color LCD displays such as those in tablets like the iPad can be power hungry and tough on the eyes. That’s why Qualcomm is betting that a new hybrid device that bridge the two worlds could be in the hands of consumers early next year....With Mirasol, Qualcomm is hoping it can give companies such as Amazon that are reportedly looking beyond black-and-white e-readers an attractive option....A “major client has already started the design-in process,” using Mirasol, says DigiTimes.

wired.com

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From Forbes:

Mirasol Display Fixing To Shine Brightly For Qualcomm

blogs.forbes.com

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From Engadget:

Our Qualcomm rep personally views dedicated e-readers as merely a "head fake," and that the category isn't going to be around for long -- which seems to imply that he sees Mirasol being used for a lot more than thumbing through a virtual novel or magazine.

engadget.com

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These are from a cursory search of Google of "Mirasol."

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To: veritas501 who wrote (108)6/6/2011 7:11:30 AM
From: JeffreyHF
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Enjoy your feast of sour grapes. Even a stopped clock is right more often than you, and the proverbial blind squirrel finds more acorns.

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To: JeffreyHF who wrote (109)6/6/2011 7:21:50 AM
From: veritas501
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Hilarious.

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From: veritas5016/6/2011 10:08:31 AM
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Here is another acorn:

From FastCompany:

Qualcomm to Spend $2 Billion on E-ink-Busting Mirasol Display Plant

fastcompany.com

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From: veritas5012/1/2012 11:52:48 PM
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If people are wondering the reason for my absence, it's because I've been scouring the US for those Mirasol handelds that were supposed to put existing display technology to pasture. Unfortunately, I've come up empty handed.

Mirasol, Mirasol, where art thou??

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To: veritas501 who wrote (112)10/29/2012 2:19:54 AM
From: veritas501
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Well, after another 8 months of diligent searching, I've found a Mirasol handheld -- emphasis on "a" because there is only one for sale on Amazon, and not by Amazon itself. It's been given a rating of 3.5 stars by its users.

Doesn't look like Mirasol will be taking the world by storm.

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