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...personal digital assistant a suspicious bulge in the other. But another, svelter option may be coming, as efforts by electronics companies to cross-pollinate phones and digital organizers finally make headway. Coming to Asia are multifunction mobiles that are small, stylish and, best of all, they run the Palm operating system familiar to most people using handheld computers...
...demon spawn of a phone and a shoe. The gunmetal blue Treo appears to be a big-screen handset. But beneath a clamshell protective cover lies a QWERTY keyboard for surfing, pecking out electronic messages and managing personal data (Handspring also offers a keyboard-less model that, like Palm organizers, relies on touch-screen and stylus for character input...
...Thanks to the Palm operating system, the Treo handles scheduling, contact lists and personal notes with the alacrity of your trusty pocket computer. It comes with 16 MB of memory, so it can store and run several of the 12,000-plus software programs and games available for the Palm platform. The Treo syncs readily with computers via standard USB connections. You can carry your complete contact list, either Microsoft Outlook or Palm Desktop address books, wherever...
...incoming call alert, make the Treo easy to lust after. The reason not to: its battery life can't match standard mobile phones. With heavy usage, daily charging is needed. And the Treo costs about $500, a lot for a handset. Kyocera, Sony and Samsung all have Palm-based phone/organizer combos on or about to hit the market. Here's hoping competition drives down the price. I'd love to free up some pocket space...
...sleep. Which is often a good thing, and if the nice folks at CBS would like to rerun the show at 11:30 p.m. ET (right after the 11 o'clock "Simpsons," thank you very much) I would be most grateful. It was all quite beautiful and quiet, all palm trees and long shots of ocean and people exchanging meaningful glances that meant nothing to me, and I at first thought that Terrence Malick had decided to try his hand at reality...