Robert,
>>Anybody got any views?
Yeah. If you haven't checked out the Inter@ctive Pager 950, from RIM/BSWD, you
should.
While not having to take a pager off your belt to read a message, is, nice.
You still have to take it off to reply!!!
The IP 950 uses the "same" radio module and backbone that the Palm VII uses
(RIM/BSWD). It's a proven technology (my company and I have been using them for
over 4 years with 5K+ radio devices).
Messages get garbled on the Motorola unit, but after having used an IP (for 2
years) I have yet to get garbage messages.
Not only can you send messages (email) from one IP to another, you can send it
to ANY email address on the internet. You can send messages to One-way pagers,
fax machines
OR to standard telephones (automated voice delivery system).
I'm pretty positive, Motorola can't do all that.
HTH
Kerry
Robert Davis wrote:
> Any other Palmer curious about Motorola moves?
>
> The Piano project (http://www.mot.com/GSS/SSTG/piano/) is really cool
> and should be synergistic with wireless Palm future. Motorola spoke
> about this stuff at the Palm Developers Conference in December. They
> own a bunch of patents, so it's in their interests to promote it
> widely and license the technology.
>
> However, the Motorola Pagewriter seems a threat. Motorola lent
> Pagewriters out to all the Lotus people at the Lotusphere conference
> in January, and they loved it. I asked a Motorola guy if they were
> going after the Palm VII space and he said 'absolutely'.
>
> Here's a snip from 'The Favorite Gadgets of the Geek Elite'
> http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/03/circuits/articles/25pete.html
>
> Jeffrey Bezos, chief executive of Amazon.com in Seattle, reached for a
> wallet-size device on his belt. "My newest gadget is the Motorola
> Pagewriter 2000," he said, referring to a wireless device known as a
> smart pager. "It's nicely designed so that you can flip it open and read
> your e-mail messages without taking it off your belt. They've really
> thought it through well. You can send e-mail and receive e-mail, and it is
> not as interruptive as a cell phone."
>
> Anybody got any views?
>
> Robert
>
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