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...PALM VII So you want wireless Web access in your pocket? Which gadget are you going to go for--a cell phone with its fiddly little buttons, or a pda (personal digital assistant) with a neat little stylus and large screen? The best answer this year was the Palm VII, which gives you a smorgasbord of e-mail, news, sports and stock tickers, all for $9.99 a month. By the way, it's also an organizer...
...uninitiated first-years (or second-years) please follow groovy train instructions carefully. All electronic equipment including the use of cellular phones must be discontinued at this point. Palm VII usage should be suspended permanently...
...figured that if I spent a lot of time with the new PalmVII, the first wireless organizer to evolve from the blockbuster PalmPilot, my hard-nosed journalist's cynicism would quickly nuzzle aside my techno-infatuation. But after squiring the VII around for a few weeks, I'm more in love than ever. For years the notion of an easy-to-use device that connects man to Net--from anywhere--has been the stuff of geek dreams. Now, at long last, vaporware has been made silicon. On my VII, I've received e-mail from my wife while riding under...
...used 138 kilobytes--$35.20 more than the basic charge. Even the $24.99-for-150-kilobyte, big-user plan would be inadequate for me. How can any self-respecting info junkie--who's presumably already paying for a cell phone and a separate Net connection--afford that? Is the Palm VII only meant for rich guys who own websites that just went public? Or maybe 3Com is intentionally trying to roll out the device slowly, perhaps as a way of ensuring that Palm.Net can handle what would otherwise be crushing demand? Since the gizmo is being sold only...
...snap, done wirelessly in minutes. The Palm's built-in 8,000-bits-per-second modem is way slower than today's 56-kbps standard, but 3Com made up for it by creating a low-bandwidth, mostly graphics-free way to search the Web. Indeed, on the VII you don't browse the Web, you "clip" it. Palm users can visit only participating websites (so far, a few hundred have signed up) rather than the entire Web. While I was at first offended at this idea--the Internet is meant to be open and free!--I quickly appreciated the faster...