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...Saurabh Kedia, 22, would never know it. The New Delhi native dips his flat naan bread into a dish of spinach curry in the air-conditioned comfort of a friend's private club. On the table lies Kedia's prized possession, an Ericsson feature-loaded mobile phone with PDA-like functions that cost him nearly $400, almost as much as an average Indian earns in a year. That night he plans to watch X2: X-Men United at a posh, newly built multiplex theater south of New Delhi and then sip cappuccinos with friends at one of the city...
...Saurabh Kedia, 22, would never know it. The New Delhi native dips his flat naan bread into a dish of spinach curry in the air-conditioned comfort of a friend's private club. On the table lies Kedia's prized possession, an Ericsson feature-loaded mobile phone with PDA-like functions that cost him nearly $400, almost as much as an average Indian earns in a year. That night he plans to watch X2: X-Men United at a posh, newly built multiplex theater south of New Delhi and then sip cappuccinos with friends at one of the city...
Love your Palm but tired of carrying around (and occasionally dropping) yet another untethered piece of hardware? Now for the first time, somebody has squeezed the Palm operating system into a wristwatch. Fossil's Wrist PDA goes on sale this month for $295 on Amazon.com and it has almost everything you have come to expect from its big brothers, including a USB connection to synch with a PC and an infrared port for wireless data transfer. There's even a backlit screen and a tiny stylus hidden in the band...
...watch, however, it's a little clunky. It weighs as much as an iPod, and with just 2 MB of memory, two hours of battery life and the old Palm OS 4.1, it can't be as quick and versatile as a full-size PDA. Fossil recommends that you stick to applications "designed for the smaller screen size." You'll have to cut it some slack for not having the latest Palm features like Wi-Fi connectivity, a built-in camera or a color screen. Still, it will free up space in your increasingly crowded pockets...
...your way into the Greenhouse today, take one of our flyers, or better yet, stop and talk to the demonstrator who’s handing them out. Gawk at the PDA if you’re so inclined. Look deeply engrossed in our posters while you watch us out of the corner of your eye and feel yourself getting secretly turned on. If you feel queasy, go ahead and feel queasy. All we ask is that you’re honest with yourself about your reaction, and then critically conscious about why you react the way you do. We?...