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...Pocket PCs, set for release this week, my first concern was for my coat pockets. The poor things get thoroughly frayed with all the portable equipment I jam into them every morning: CD player, Palm Pilot, e-mail pager, voice recorder, a novel for the train. Pocket PC promises to do the work of all of the above in a single 9-oz. shell (made variously by Compaq, H-P and Casio). Given that my local tailor charges me the equivalent of the national debt of a small country for sewing up all the holes in my clothing created...
Indeed, the all-in-one functionality of the Pocket PC is enough to make you drop to your knees and thank heaven for the 21st century. Surfing the Web with text and full-color photos was a joy. Reading and sending e-mail--even with nettlesome attachments--was a snap. Plugging in headphones and listening to MP3 music files while playing solitaire made my morning commute...
...also pretty cool to record my verbal ramblings as .wav files, which could be uploaded later to my PC. And I was thoroughly impressed with the first appearance of Microsoft's Clear Type technology, which lets you read downloaded books in a font as crisp as any on a printed page. (Because of copyright hassles, most Clear Type books won't arrive until the end of the year. In the meantime, feast your eyes on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, which are provided free with your machine, courtesy of Microsoft...
...consumer-electronics adventures should ultimately ride on connectivity: the extent to which all these Windows-seeded devices are able to talk to each other and share data. Imagine the timesaving advantages in this technologically fragmented world if you're able to beam a number from your Pocket PC to your Windows cell phone, or use the synchronicity between your satellite dish and your X-box to play games over a broadband network. "Their Windows-ness could turn out to be a benefit," says Mundie. In other words, if Gates has his way, Microsofties won't just be crashing this party...
...ronic that King is seen peering out of an Apple iMac on your cover. Those of us who own Macintosh computers (like King) were disappointed when we tried to download his Riding the Bullet and found that only PC users could partake. I guess we will just have to "bite the bullet" for now. JOHN ALFENITO Northridge, Calif...