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COMPAQ IPAQ H3650 $499 or $799, plus $30 a month (with modem); available in June Look out, Palm! Here's a silvery, sleek pocket PC with a built-in MP3 player, full Web access and a gorgeous color screen...
...done by voice. These "smart phones" have the added advantage of being less expensive than a PDA. It's not hard to find a cellular service that will give you the phone for free. The downside: there's not a lot of room on a cell-phone screen for browsing the Internet. But count on screens--and phones--to get bigger. Remember that Ur-1990s one-upmanship over who has the smallest cellular phone? It's over...
...these battles are particularly high stakes. In one, AOL, Yahoo, Excite@Home and others are fighting to become the dominant "mobile portal"--the first screen that wireless Internet users land on. The winner has the potential to be the Yahoo of the wireless age once the number of people connecting to the Internet wirelessly exceeds the number connecting through wires...
...Wireless Palm, for example, still works mainly in big cities. And how many times have you found yourself out of range with your cellular phone? As for the handheld Internet experience, it isn't all that great. How good will the Web look on a cell phone's tiny screen or even a PDA's slightly larger one? And then there's speed. If you didn't like the World Wide Wait on your home PC's 56K modem, how will you like it on a 19.2K wireless connection, the current PDA maximum...
...more points you get. To maneuver, you press the 2 key to move up, the 8 key to go down and so on. I was even more impressed by the upcoming version of Tetris that Ericsson managed to squeeze into its T28 world phone. Even though the screen is no bigger than a piece of Trident gum, I had as much fun playing my favorite video game as I ever did on a computer...