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...gizmo is being sold only in the New York City area until it's distributed nationally in the fall, I'm backing the crushing-demand theory. Later, an all-you-can-eat service could keep at bay all those folks thinking of buying devices that use Microsoft's Windows CE, an operating system that competes with Palm...
Even more ominous for the industry is the generation of information appliances touted as the next wave of microprocessor-loaded consumer goodies. What happens when you've got a Windows CE device running at 200 MHz in the palm of your hand and a cell phone with Internet access in your pocket? Not to mention Packard Bell NEC's planned microwave oven with a video-display terminal on the door so you can surf the Web while waiting for your burrito to thaw. E-mail? Web access? Game playing? Will anyone need a PC to perform what today seem like...
...RRATA: I'd like to congratulate the hundreds of people who won last week's Catch Quittner Err contest--the folks who correctly noted that 3Com's PalmPilot does not run Windows CE, as was stated. Indeed, as someone who owns a Pilot, I know the machine's genius derives from its own operating system, Palm OS. I should have caught the error when it found its way into my copy, but I didn't. However, only four of you noticed the other blooper: the captions under the Sharp Mobilon Pro and Tripad were inadvertently swapped. Shame...
...past few weeks, I've been knocking knees with two such machines made by Sharp Electronics of Mahwah, N.J.: the Mobilon Pro ($899) and the Mobilon Tripad ($999). They are unique in the CE laptop category because they have touch-sensitive color VGA screens that make it easier to do everything from word processing to opening and closing programs...
...much attention to Windows CE when the first digital assistants using the software started shipping last spring. I should have. CE is perfect for lazy guys like me who are willing to trade off full functionality for a specialized, ultralight tool. But be warned that CE will run only its own applications, and they're "lite" versions. Microsoft is so worried that consumers will be confused--and buy a CE machine expecting it to run full Windows programs--that it will launch an "awareness" ad campaign next month. Pocket Word, for instance, is a dumbed-down Word that's little...