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People may one day look back and wonder why mobile phones and PDAs were ever separate. It's sensible to have your contacts list, diary and other crucial personal data stored in the one item you never leave home without?your cell phone. In recognition of the obvious, hybrid phone-PDAs such as Handspring's Treo began arriving in Asia this year. Now the xda, a versatile combo from British company mm02?a wireless spin-off from BT?may move the multipurpose devices closer to the mainstream...
Although cell phones, laptops and PDAs have made it immensely easier to do business, many users hate having to tote around all three devices. HANDSPRING, maker of the popular Visor handhelds, thinks these burdened business people are the perfect customers for its Treo communicator, which debuted last month. The palm-size phone and organizer also has wireless Web service and a little keyboard or writing area for e-mailing and text messaging. Handspring prices the Treo at $399 with a service plan...
...month at CeBIT, an information-technology fair in Hanover, Germany, that draws some 700,000 visitors, Logitech will introduce its entry in the mobile sector, a global market more than twice the size of the one for PCs. There are a billion mobile telephones in use, plus 50 million PDAs, compared with half a billion personal computers...
...center of the company's new mobile focus is the KeyCase, a folding cloth keyboard and case that works with Palm Pilots (but not, for now, with other PDAs). The device looks modest, but some road warriors may end up using it in place of a laptop...
...CeBIT, Logitech will also launch a foldable hard-case keyboard for pdas, called the TypeAway, that will compete with those sold by TARGUS and PALM. "Targus is a great product," says De Luca. "We made a mistake not to be interested in it." But Logitech is betting that it can catch up with the KeyCase and the TypeAway, which is more useful for keying in longer files, folds to a thickness of half an inch and weighs 3.9 oz., significantly smaller and lighter than anything else on the market...