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...there are only a few mobile phones at the moment that support this feature. I tried it with the Ericsson I 888 World Phone ($300), and it worked fine, though moving data at 9,600 bits per second felt glacial. Also, the e-mail program that came with the palmtop was clumsy--after you download messages, you need to transfer them to another queue to read. (Will someone please fix this...
...have returned from the wild a far more disciplined and effective executive, but his first moves still basically consisted of tearing the place apart--restocking the boardroom and labs with trusted NeXTers, ending the belated effort to build a market for Mac clones, spiking ancillary projects like the Newton palmtop and the Claris software subsidiary and replacing the bewildering tangle of product lines (raise your hand if you know the difference between the PowerBook 3400c/180 and the PowerBook 1400cs/166) with just four: the G3 desktop and laptop machines for the Mac-friendly publishing and graphics communities; the iMac desktop consumer...
Unlike Psion, which produced the first digital organizer in the 1980s, Microsoft's entry into the world of palmtop computing began only three years ago, when the company rolled out Windows CE, a relative of the company's ubiquitous operating system now found on more than 90% of personal computers. Microsoft then signed up 10 manufacturers, including Hewlett-Packard, Sharp and Philips, to make hand-held computers to its specifications. Following the huge success of the Palm Pilot, the tiny organizer that uses a plastic pen instead of a keyboard, Microsoft enlisted another eight manufacturers to make a competing version...
CASH 'N' CARRY Harried investors out to lunch can track the market's madness with Wireless Wall Street ($90, Digital DJ/Sharp). The palmtop pager serves up real-time stock and market info, plus radio, traffic and sports...
...knock against palmtop computers has always been the same: too small to be useful as PCs and too big to make a mark as a personal organizer. But computer companies are getting better at miniaturizing everything from color screens to disk drives, and the result is a new collection of very small, very powerful computers that are surprisingly useful. Below are just the first in a series of small computers set to hit the market within 12 months. The machines are small enough and powerful enough to find a real home as communications and productivity tools...