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...Internet experience, it isn't all that great. How good will the Web look on a cell phone's tiny screen or even a PDA's slightly larger one? And then there's speed. If you didn't like the World Wide Wait on your home PC's 56K modem, how will you like it on a 19.2K wireless connection, the current PDA maximum...
...wireless industry insists progress is being made on all fronts. Service and screens are improving, it says. And wireless broadband is coming. Metricom, a company providing wireless modem connections to users in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, will be rolling out high-speed wireless by the end of the year. It is expected to take service to 120K or higher. And the industry says mobile 384K wireless (as fast as a high-speed DSL connection) should be available...
Still, wireless technology is getting hard to live without. When this story was edited, I was on a boat cruising down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. I was able to read and answer my editor's e-mail on my laptop (thanks to a wireless modem) and answer questions by cell phone. The work got done, but I missed a pretty good fish fry. --With reporting by David S. Jackson/Los Angeles and Anita Hamilton and Unmesh Kher/New York...
...unlike the Palm line, Visor has a Game Boy-like slot in the back that allows you to drop in gear to extend the machine's functionality. Great idea, but as of last week I could find only three hardware add-ons that were available in retail stores--a modem, a universal remote and a digital camera. The EyeModule ($149) camera is a particularly fun idea, but the color images are a murky 320x240 pixels...
...phone lines, which are mostly metered rather than per use, remain expensive. Across Latin America, these costs add up. Depending on the long-distance configuration, 20 hours of Web surfing can cost a single user between $20 and $300. Throw in at least $700 for a computer with a modem, and for many the information revolution is still a dream...