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Here's how it works. Say you have a Wi-Fi-compatible wireless network at home. Your desktop PC is connected to the Internet via a cable modem, and you have a wireless connection from your PC to a laptop. You can move around with your laptop from room to room, even take it out to the backyard swimming pool, and still connect wirelessly to your network, as well as to the great Net beyond. Your connection between the laptop and PC is fast, about 11 Mbps, the same speed as the Ethernet networks businesses use to interconnect their computers...
...also found Pocket PC's handwriting-recognition skills to be woefully inadequate. It kept reading my a's as g's or u's, my b's as d's and sprinkling periods liberally throughout my text. A few hours of this, and my head was throbbing; I reverted to tapping in my letters one at a time on the onscreen keyboard. For the time being, I'll stick with Palm's tried-and-tested Graffiti alphabet...
...very persuasive had I not grown so fiercely loyal to the sleek little Palm V that I bought a few months ago to replace a lost and lamented Filofax organizer. To win me over completely--not to mention the millions of Palm enthusiasts who dominate the handheld market--Pocket PC would have to be easier to understand and simpler to operate than a Palm, especially when doing boring workaday stuff like entering lunch dates and addresses and jotting down memos...
...device based on the Windows CE operating system has yet managed to be this simple, and unfortunately the Pocket PC turns out to be no exception. Microsoft's idea of making the system more intuitive seems to be limited to moving the "Start" menu from the lower-left corner of the screen to the upper left and adding an almost invisible button marked OK in the top right, which you need to tap all the time but invariably forget. Too often I was more conscious of operating the system than concentrating on the task at hand...
...should you buy a Pocket PC? Sure--but only if you plan on doing most of your data entry on a PC, then transferring the files to the handheld device. And only if you think the bells and whistles, fabulous as they are, are worth about $170 more than what you'll pay for the Palm V (street price: $329). Of course, if you're like me, you may be saving the difference in tailor bills...