Practical Universal Wireless

A reader writes "A story in Technology Review today outlines the advances in wireless that need to take place before wireless broadband can be effecitive. Quite frankly, I'm getting a little sick of the whole notion of wireless internet access and until improvements are made to both wireless input and output devices, the only thing I will use the "wireless web" for is to check a Red Sox score."

Comments

so many choices so little time

[joq]

The whole wireless ploy has become such overkill, that it's stomach turning. The benefits of having a Palm or other device for Wireless access is not a neccessity by any means in real world scenarios, they just make things easier.

Too many companies are trying to focus on stamping out product after product while failing to give just one definite product to handle it all.

E.g. If there were a combo pager/cell/pda I think many people would flock to it, provided it wasn't filled with bloat. Not saying bloat is always bad, but I see many of these wireless PDA's on the market with nothing worth true substance to make me want to buy it.

I have my cell, page, laptop which I carry around, so other than trying to keep up with the Jones' I see no need to run out and buy something I already have by carrying around my other gizmo's.

One, my laptop stores more info than a PDA, and its easier to use than scrolling a little pen over a small ass screen. Secondly my pager sends me news every hour, and I can receive email on it too. My phone can receive the same, news, and email, so what makes the PDA companies think I need to carry extra baggage to access these features. Typical email can wait, as if there is an emergency, via pager or cellphone, I can be emailed or paged.

Should I need to store information, I would rather jot it down on good old pen and paper to xfer it to my pc's should I not have on powered on. Just imagine getting a super models phone number then smashing your PDA by accident (bad example but hopefully many will see the probs I find with PDA based stuff). You're screwed.

While companies may brainstorm on how big of a screen they should make, or what new programs they could insert on the limited diskspace, maybe one, just one vendor can do something a'la mid sized (between PDA, and Laptop sized) all in one combo phone/pager/laptop and do away with all those annoying little PDA's.