from the clueless dept:
Why would I want a PDA-phone hybrid?
Why do I have the uneasy feeling the newly announced
Motorola/Palm product, due in 2002, may end up combining
everything Palm knows about cell phones with everything
Motorola knows about personal
organizers?
Is it that none of the current devices even
comes close to being useful
for most people who already own a cell phone
and a PDA? Dont
take my word for it: Check out the MobilePlanet
and iGO catalogs,
where the latest wireless wonders are all on
display. Sure, theyre
cool, but are they useful?
And how about those new devices that are
supposed to turn Palms
and Visors into cell phones? Give me a break --
Im supposed to talk
into something that looks like that? How useful
can the combination
really be? Cool? Yes. Practical? Hardly. And
$299 seems a bit steep.
Is this really necessary?
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http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20000926/tc/keep_your_phone_off_my_palm__1.html
The real issue will be power consumption vs. mips for
crypto. And user interfaces.
