Word: palming
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...works much like the NFL quarterbacks she so admires: boning up, calling the plays, relying on teammates, pushing forward. She trains like an athlete too: a junk-free diet and daily workouts. A master multitasker and cell-phone freak, Rice does not use e-mail or a Palm but carries her agenda in her head. Big tasks, like Middle East talks, are split into small plays. "We got the first down," says an admiring colleague, because she's "relentless...
...Take, for instance, the Today screen. This one is easy to customize to fit your needs, and Palm has inserted a dial-by-name box and two rows of customizable speed dials. Start tapping in the name of a contact, and within seconds you make your call, right from the screen. Sweeter still is the Photo Speed Dial feature: line up the mugs of your beloveds right on the Today screen, to tap at will. There's also a fully customizable button-style speed dial...
...connects to Verizon's BroadbandAccess highspeed wireless data Network - provided, that is, you live in within its service area and have the appropriate plan. It makes sense to have rapid access to the Internet, so the Today screen puts a web-search window within easy reach. The folks at Palm take pride in the fact that Microsoft let them use their first choice of search engine - Google - and I'm pretty happy about that...
...Palm has also tossed in a few sweet features for you to manage calls. By now, lots of people are abuzz about the fact that there's a simple VCR-style control for managing voicemail with your stylus. The forward, back and repeat commands, along with the necessary save and delete, are represented by tiny icons, so you don't have to wait for the voicemail lady to tell you what to type. It's a simple innovation, but a brilliant one. How about another one? Some people's calls are easy to ignore, but when it comes to spouses...
...Overall, the pairing seems to be a good one. Palm is bringing some of the warmth of the Palm OS to the coldly businesslike Windows Mobile platform, and getting a ride to the top of the corporate ladder in the process. My guess is that Palm will sell plenty of these, and that Microsoft will be happy about it. That is, unless they don't get into the legal mire that Research In Motion's BlackBerry has been in for a while - in mid December, mobile e-mail software developer Visto sued Microsoft for patent violations, particularly pertaining to Windows...