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...other battle, Microsoft is working to establish its new Pocket PC operating system as the standard for wireless, though it has a long way to go to catch up with Palm's dominant OS--the Windows of the handheld world. Early evaluations of Microsoft's Pocket PC say it's good but not likely to be the "Palm killer" some were expecting. There's also a joint venture of the software firm Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Japan's Matsushita and Motorola called Symbian that was designed to keep Microsoft at bay. Although there have been some cracks in the alliance--Ericsson...
...Wireless skeptics--and there are quite a few--say reports of the revolution are greatly exaggerated. "Promises, promises, promises," says Jane Zweig, an analyst with Herschel Shosteck Associates. "A lot of hype, not much delivery...
...naysayers claim there's far more work to be done building the wireless infrastructure. 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...
...wireless industry insists progress is being made on all fronts. Service and screens are improving, it says. And wireless broadband is coming. Metricom, a company providing wireless modem connections to users in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, will be rolling out high-speed wireless by the end of the year. It is expected to take service to 120K or higher. And the industry says mobile 384K wireless (as fast as a high-speed DSL connection) should be available...
There's a second group of critics who worry not that wireless won't live up to its promises but that it will. "Is it a major problem in our society that people walking down the street don't have Internet access?" asks Clifford Stoll, an astronomer and gadfly author (High Tech Heretic). "None of my friends are going around saying, 'Oh, my God, I don't have enough information.' Quite the opposite. People are saying, 'I'm flooded with this stuff...