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...shaping up as a hybrid of Wi-Fi and 2.5G or 3G, with Wi-Fi offering high speeds at low or no cost over very small areas and the Gs covering wide areas at lower speeds and relatively high cost. Hardware is catching up to this hybrid model; Nokia recently announced a PC card offering both Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity...
...effort to steal market share from the popular Palm Pilot, but most Palm users preferred their current software's simplicity. Cell-phone users may turn out to be similarly wary. "The mobile environment is not simply about downscaling the PC world," warns Timo Poikolainen, a director of Nokia's software division...
...Nokia, maker of the world's most popular cell phone, is Microsoft's main stumbling block, and the two companies are likely to spend the better part of the next decade duking it out for control of this $91 billion industry. As Microsoft gets set to muscle in on Nokia's turf, the Finnish giant is selling its own software deal with a rival operating system. Other cell-phone manufacturers like Motorola and Qualcomm are also releasing their blueprints. Even companies like HP, whose latest Journada handheld computer has a built-in smart phone, are getting...
...this competition should be good news for road warriors and teenagers. Screens and memory sizes will get larger, mobile music and video services will proliferate, and sending instant text messages (assuming Microsoft and Nokia can agree on a common standard) should become just as popular in the U.S. as it is in Japan and Europe. And if you still want an old-fashioned cell phone without bells and whistles, you will pay a lot less than you do now, since wireless carriers will aim to make most of their money on the extras. Just try to keep it down when...
...halves of our brain to talk while driving, it’s a threat to public safety. Let me modify this to apply to cell phones in classrooms: Since nobody can concentrate when “Yankee Doodle Dandy” blares from somebody’s cheap Nokia, that person’s safety deserves to be put in some serious jeopardy. Hit the [expletive deleted] with a pipe...