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To: EJhonsa who wrote (7083)	9/4/2000 6:45:34 PM
From: nbfm	Respond to of 34857

"Also, for general web services, I don't think I'd ever care to get them over a mobile when I have a home LAN w/cable modem." "If you're talking about wireless net access over a large-screen device such as a laptop, I'd have to disagree. I'd love to have such a service, although there isn't a chance in hell I'd be willing to do this with my current Sprint service, as my minutes would be gone in about ten days. For the time being, mobile wireless technologies just aren't efficient enough for a cheap, flat-rate, general-purpose net access service to be offered. Perhaps in a few years, the situation might be different." For me, the perfect device would have a visible screen (12") with voice or touch(?) interface. Combine that device with 144 kbps wireless at a reasonable rate and the lap top/pda/phone lines have further blurred. (Someone needs to develop a "folding" (for lack of a better term) high visibility screen that is light, small, and energy efficient; throw in a simple operating system connected to your personal server, and voila!) Sometime the wireless would be mobile, sometimes fixed; always portable.