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To: Sommers who wrote (17546)	2/9/2000 8:50:00 AM
From: Mike Buckley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Sommers, Yes, I understand that you weren't trying to impress us. Nonetheless, I remain very impressed with your forward-thinking nature to use the latest and greatest technology and I'm impressed with the technology itself. As soon as I posted that message, I walked into my living room and said to my wife, "You're not gonna believe this but I just read a message typed on a cellphone/PDA that was sent all the way from Hong Kong." Yep, I'm very impressed. --Mike Buckley

To: Sommers who wrote (17546)	2/9/2000 10:30:00 AM
From: nosmo_king	Respond to of 54805

Re: Smart phones/PDA's The race is on... with the smart phones ahead. As you point out, and as is mentioned in the referenced link, the smart phones have both properties of being a phone and a PDA/internet device, but with limited memory. In December, Casio (and others) announced plans to add wireless capabilities to their PDA's. While they won't double as phones, they will have the additional properties they carry now, namely, palm PC's. The benefit to these wireless PDA's will also be their ability to handle additional data via expandable memory slots. But, alas, they won't be phones! Perhaps the mobile phone turned PDA will in this direction also, with the capability of adding expandable memory. Off to a conference in Orlando, Apollo-- see you there? --nk, gadget head