(keitai-l) Re: SmartPhones will kill consumer PDAs?

From: Giovanni Bertani <giovanni.bertani_at_exsense.com>
Date: 04/23/03
Message-Id: <1AAD0688-755F-11D7-8EA9-003065BA6D3A@exsense.com>
Marted=EC, 22 apr 2003, alle 12:13 Europe/Rome, Curt Sampson ha scritto:

>
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Philip Sidel wrote:
>
>> However, with 802.11 (mostly g) and all the other competing broadband
>> wireless technologies that make 3G look incredibly slow, it's very=20
>> possible
>> that the PDA or PDA/phone combinations that we're seeing from Palm=20
>> and many
>> others will have long term viability as well.
>
> Given the fairly good uptake on much slower data-only cards (DDI's
> Air-H"), I'd think that if we get reasonably broad public 802.11
> coverage, that could do quite well. In fact, I understand that we're
> supposed to be getting combination 802.11/PHS cards soon.
>
> I don't know how many of the cards are on computers and how many
> are on PDAs, but I get the impression that the CF cards are selling
> pretty well, and the recently introduced smart-card PHS access card is
> certainly not meant for laptops.



Looks like that  802.11 has a future more on laptops and PDAs can can=20
have a benefit from a more performing connection than on smartphones...



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Received on Wed Apr 23 10:43:39 2003