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

From: Alistair Jeffs <alistair_at_jetpack.com>
Date: 04/23/03
Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030423102738.03083658@mail.jetpack.com>
At 09:42 23/04/2003 +0200, you wrote:






>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...


http://www.thinkmobile.com/News/00/65/83/
DoCoMo unveils Handheld PC

anyone seen what this looks like? can't find an image anywhere.


   
Received on Wed Apr 23 12:31:51 2003