Don't stone me, but I can't live without my Palm Pilot. It would be nice to have my address list and caller ID integrated, not to mention mobile internet access. I could actually give meaningful bids on location. "Qualcomm take me away..."
FYI, if anyone is interested, the only cell company I know that offers unmetered ($10/Month) internet access, VoiceStream, won't be selling or connecting these little beauties, because the VS technology requires those pesky little SmartCards. [Most] of the other digital providers use the required process called CDMA, which is supposed to lend well to full-blown internet, as opposed to those text pager features. I got a quote from a tech guy at Sprint who said that they were expecting to have full internet support by 3/99 and would finally start pushing the pdQ's. (There's an analog model, for all you folks in the boonies.) He implied that there would be an entirely new billing format to account for the web access. Hmmm.
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arrgh, that's supposed to be 3-of-2000, not 99. I did preview, really!
FYI, if anyone is interested, the only cell company I know that offers unmetered ($10/Month) internet access, VoiceStream, won't be selling or connecting these little beauties, because the VS technology requires those pesky little SmartCards. [Most] of the other digital providers use the required process called CDMA, which is supposed to lend well to full-blown internet, as opposed to those text pager features. I got a quote from a tech guy at Sprint who said that they were expecting to have full internet support by 3/99 and would finally start pushing the pdQ's. (There's an analog model, for all you folks in the boonies.) He implied that there would be an entirely new billing format to account for the web access. Hmmm.