Word: nokia
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DICK TRACY LIVES Cell phones have got smaller and smaller, but your fingers haven't shrunk, making sleek mobiles like the Nokia 8860 frustrating to operate. That's why Samsung's new watchphone makes more sense than most miniatures. It uses voice-recognition software from Conversa to dial phone numbers and read e-mail in response to plain-English commands. Available late next year, it should arrive just in time to accessorize your Dick Tracy Halloween costume...
...Finns in particular have benefited from the nearly demonic devotion of one of their country's leading companies, Nokia, to cell-phone technology. Once a clunky national conglomerate, Nokia is the world leader in cell phones, and last year sold $9.5 billion worth. So far this year sales are up 50%; the stock price is up 40%, to about...
...especially 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...
...irrevocable; the option of caller-only billing would be up to carriers, and therefore up to consumers. But the agency is betting that making the cell phone a little more familiar to traditionalists will increase use and competition, driving down rates. What's next? The coin-operated Nokia...
...Nokia: Genius...