17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Adam Back wrote:
What is a PKS phone?
Does it have end to end encryption? Or is it just a standard GSM phone in a star-trek communicator style form-factor, or something else?
and Cynthia Brown replied:
Could be a typo for PCS, which is similar to GSM but uses the 1.9 GHz band instead of 900 MHz (GSM) or 1.8 GHz (DCS). Unfortunately, I don't think there are dual-mode phones yet.
I think Cynthia is correct (I was transcribing Eric Hughes' Japanese "trip report"). Eric was talking about a very small micro-cell phone extremely popular with Japanese teenagers. Martin Minow minow@apple.com