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...have given over to advertising. Hardly a T-shirt in America exists without a logo or slogan emblazoned on it. The spaces in the T station and even in the bathrooms seem acceptable enough for advertising, but new "advances" seem to go too far. At last week's Ericsson Open (named for the cellular phone company) tennis tournament in Miami, the net was marked with a Mercedes-Benz symbol at each end. This was the first time I had seen this particular type of selling, though the behind-the-plate ads, both virtual and real, invaded televised baseball...
...been two years since I bought--and set aside--my first cell phone. The horrid device in question was a bottom-of-the-line Ericsson that looked as if it had been designed in Stalinist Russia. I got it free with a one-year service contract. Sadly, phone, service (AT&T Wireless) and contract conspired against me. Either the Ericsson, which carried a battery charge for a good half-hour or so, was out of juice or I was in one of the many dead spots that appeared to plague my mobile life. After three months of this, I stopped...
Going digital was a much rockier road in the U.S., mainly because the FCC chose to let competing technologies duke it out in the market. The result: Qualcomm, Ericsson and others squabbled over whose standard would "win." None did, so we're left with a hodgepodge of incompatible networks and a gaggle of abbreviations (GSM, CDMA, TDMA, IDEN) that are not only confusing but also confining, restricting us to a particular carrier's coverage area and delaying the roll-out of advanced services...
...popular outside the U.S. The 12.5-oz. device is the Psion 5mx ($549, list) and runs on a clever 32-bit operating system called Epoc, which has legions of devotees, just like Palm's OS. Epoc, you should know, was developed by a consortium called Symbian (which includes Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola), and is being positioned as the standard for next-generation cell phones--a distinct possibility since those manufacturers produce 80% of the world's mobile phones. That's probably why Microsoft referred to Psion as its "No. 1 global threat" in an internal memo last year...
...wirelessly through a cell phone. The gadget connects to a cell phone via its infrared port; then you can dial out to any Internet service provider. That said, there are only a few mobile phones at the moment that support this feature. I tried it with the Ericsson I 888 World Phone ($300), and it worked fine, though moving data at 9,600 bits per second felt glacial. Also, the e-mail program that came with the palmtop was clumsy--after you download messages, you need to transfer them to another queue to read. (Will someone please fix this...