Hello Kenneth, On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:49:22 -0400 GMT (04/07/03, 11:49 +0700 GMT), Kenneth S. Rhee wrote:
> Actually smartphones are 21st century technology (cell + PDA). The > first popular PDA didn't come about till 1996, and the first > combination smartphone didn't hit the market till 2000. I have friends in both Europe and Asia who used PDAs. In the beginning, they were in love with their news toys, but each and every one of them has thrown them into a corner after an average of 2 years or so. Yes, I have seen one guy recentlywith what looked like a very huge mobile phone with which he could also do other things. Looked bulky and uncomfortable to me. Also, I fail to see why someone needs to be reachable by email while in an airport departure hall. If anything is urgent, call. There is also SMS, which is so widely used nowadays, that it has become one of the important sources of income for the GSM companies. If you really have to see an attached file, I cannot fathom why it couldn't wait a few hours (short of being a stock-broker). > It's probably the device everyone will be using ten years from now > (could be sooner according to some analysts). Not over here, I can assure you. But the US may be different. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Enough about *me*; what do *you* think about me? Message reply created with The Bat! 1.63 Beta/5 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
