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...truly stands out as a phone. It uses a regular keypad rather than a touchscreen, so it feels much more like a phone than its competitors, the Samsung I300, Handspring Treo and T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition. And the halves of the 7135's brain work well together. Dial a number, and one click enters it in your Palm address book. Highlight and tap on a number from your Palm, and the phone dials it. At about $600, it's not cheaper than buying each separately, but at 6.6 oz., it's lighter. One catch...
...surf the Internet exposes the current limitations of wireless data transfer. The xda works on GSM and GPRS mobile networks; I tried it on a GPRS system in Hong Kong, and even though I was supposed to be able to get data at rates comparable with dial-up services, I found Web access frustratingly slow. Not only that, the Web doesn't have a lot of content that is optimized to fit the small screens of handheld devices...
Dimitri Kanevsky helps computers understand human speech, a surprising line of work for someone who has been deaf since age 3. The odds are good that if your computer can transcribe a voice or your cell phone knows which number to dial when you tell it to "Call Julie," Kanevsky, 50, is partly responsible. His algorithms are at work inside much of the software that helps translate human speech into the digital language that machines understand...
...dial-up modem speeds, however, it's more like Click-N-Crawl. Lindows tries its best to act friendly and look Windows-like, but right now it's hard to use for half an hour without a lot of jargon about the root directory and other comp-sci stuff appearing on the screen. It will run a lot of Windows programs--games being the major exception. (Robertson has backed off earlier claims that his system is entirely Windows compatible.) Basically, Lindows is a work in progress. Stand by for the final release...
...dial-up modem speeds, however, it's more like Click-N-Crawl. Lindows tries its best to act friendly and look Windows-like, but right now it's hard to use for half an hour without a lot of jargon about the root directory and other comp-sci stuff appearing on the screen. It will run a lot of Windows programs - games being the major exception. (Robertson has backed off earlier claims that his system is entirely Windows compatible.) Basically, Lindows is a work in progress. Stand by for the final release...