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To: mr.mark who wrote (32323)	7/8/1999 9:42:00 PM
From: Mang Cheng	Respond to of 45548

"Pump Up Your Palm With These Power Products" by Michael S. Lasky Accessories August 1999 3Com's Palm Computing calls its Palm devices "connected organizers." Third-party applications and accessories make these PDAs even more connected. We look at eight products that let you: Use the Palm as a pager Read spreadsheets and text documents Access Web content Use GPS satellites for street-level navigation Print documents Got Palm? If so, you've also got plenty of company. With nearly 4 million units sold, 3Com's 3.5-year-old line of personal digital assistants has become ubiquitous in business circles around the world. All Palm PDAs--from the original PalmPilots to more recent Palm IIIx and V models and the spanking-new wireless Palm VII (see Top of the News)--come with software that lets you track appointments, contacts, to-dos, expenses, and e-mail. But not surprisingly, a host of third-party vendors are targeting this enormous market with products that are designed to make Palms even more useful. More than 2000 software titles and 400 hardware devices enable Palms to take on everything from paging, printing, and GPS mapping to Web access, editing spreadsheets, and using enterprise applications. Here are some of the best. Throw Your Pager Away Why carry two devices when one will do? PageMart Wireless 's $129 Synapse Pager Card for the Palm III lets you receive text messages of up to 300 characters and update your calendar. So you don't waste time reading unimportant messages, a Sender ID feature tells you who's trying to reach you--assuming that person is in your Palm contacts database. And the Palm Calendar can be updated wirelessly without the usual desktop synchronization ritual. The Pager Card comes with 2MB of memory and replaces the Palm III's 2MB memory card: Just remove the small screws on the back panel, exchange the cards, attach the supplied back panel, and you're done. The Synapse notifies you of incoming calls with a message and an audible alert--even when your Palm is turned off. Basic service costs $20 per month for national roaming with voice mail, news, regional weather, and sports bulletins; you can pay extra to get stock quotes. PageMart also sells a pager card for prePalm III Palms. pcworld.com