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"David Eduardo" wrote:


"Telamon" wrote in message
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"David Eduardo" wrote:


"Steve" wrote in message
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On Sep 22, 8:52 pm, "David Eduardo" wrote:

Nobody with any actual knowledge thought there would be portables in
2006.

Not true. The availability of portables was predicted well before
2006.

Not by either iBiquity or receiver manufacturers. Those who were
discussing
this possibility were speculating, and we could have had better data by
calling Miss Cleo.

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You would know better than any other poster about Miss Cleo.

HD radios were originally supposed to be out more than a year ago
including portables. I see you are now into revising history.

Any reliable source reported, through Spring of this year, that there was no
chip capable of the battery drain requirements of a portable. Now that
Samsung and others have announced low cost low power chips, we can now
predict portables around Q2 or Q3 of 2008.

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Not so fast. That one news release was an announcement kickoff for the
system on a chip development. Samples should be available by now
according to that news release. They might have run into problems. We
will see if they can solve them or if sales / management shot off their
mouths.

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Telamon
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