"We don't know exactly what convergence will look like, " she says.

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"Convergence is the byword of the mobile industry, but it doesn't always work, " notes Choong.

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That means he doesn't put much stock in all the hype at the Consumer Electronics Show around the almighty trend of convergence: systems that can shuttle your movies, songs and photos from the Internet to the set-top box to the PC and back without calling an IT specialist.

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