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To: drew_m who wrote (103589)	9/3/2001 1:13:51 PM
From: S100	Respond to of 152472

There are several Palm cell phone choices now. The Kyocera 6035 is pretty neat and can be bought now for as little as $150 in some places. Rumor has it that there is a color version in the works, and the current units will be on sale soon. The WSJ had an article on the I300 which was just approved by the FCC and details are at svartifoss2.fcc.gov An exterior view is at svartifoss2.fcc.gov There seem to be many useful applications for the Palm including stock trading. Some info on stock trading via a Palm is at www100.fidelity.com Search on Palm. TD Waterhouse and Schwab offer wireless trading. tdwaterhouse.com Schwab keeps it well hidden as usual on their site. A somewhat dated article at Wired. snip Schwab recently announced that customers can sign up to be alerted anywhere via their Palm Pilots of stock market changes and can also place orders without having to be tied to their land lines. Though wireless trading currently represents just a sliver of the overall electronic transactions, it is expected to take off in the next few years as avid stock traders and investors start relying on wireless devices, Schwab spokesman Greg Gable said. "We had people receiving pager and phone alerts -- about 600,000 signed up for that," Gable said. "It's the very beginning, the first nanoseconds of a very long marathon." Gable said being able to trade on a PDA is an extension of being able to check portfolios wirelessly, a service the company launched last October. "We think there's a small group of people, very active traders for whom this kind of service is extremely valuable," he said. Schwab plans to extend trading capabilities to mobile phones and pagers sometime this summer. The company is just one of a myriad of financial institutions in the great rush to offer its services on PDAs and wireless phones. Other online brokerage firms include TD Waterhouse, E-trade Group, and Ameritrade, all of which offer their services on the Sprint PCS Wireless Web phone service. Schwab's partnership with Palm came a year and a half after competitor Fidelity Investments introduced InstantBroker, which provides access to Fidelity accounts and trading on the Rim 950 pager, Palm VII, and Sprint PCS mobile phones. But transactions on handheld devices make up only a tiny fraction of Fidelity's overall revenue. More than 65,000 Fidelity customers have signed up for wireless access to their accounts, or roughly 2 percent of total users. Snip wired.com Samsung Embeds Cellphone Inside Palm in New I300 Device By WALTER S. MOSSBERG THERE IS A new contender in the race to create the perfect merger of the hand-held computer and the wireless phone. Samsung, the Korean electronics giant, has introduced the I300 phone, and it's the smallest, sleekest combo device to date. The $500 phone is designed to work on the CDMA cellular phone system popularized in the U.S. by Sprint and Verizon, and will be initially sold by Sprint. The I300 follows on the heels of the current combo champ, the Kyocera Smartphone, which was introduced in March. Like the Kyocera, the new Samsung model is a fully working cellphone that is also a genuine Palm hand-held computer. It not only works anywhere on Sprint's network, it does everything a Palm can do -- on a big, bright color screen. In addition to handling voice calls, the I300 can send and receive e-mail and access the Internet. But there are some key differences between the Kyocera and the new Samsung phone. The Kyocera, which Sprint sells for $400, is a phone with a Palm embedded inside. It looks like a phone, and has a traditional phone keypad that you have to flip up to reveal a monochrome Palm screen and its icons. THE SAMSUNG, by contrast, takes the opposite design approach: It's really the first Palm with a phone embedded in it. There isn't any physical phone keypad. The keypad is drawn on the color screen and you touch the virtual buttons to dial a number. In essence, the phone is just another program running on the Palm, or a wireless modem with voice capacities. Snip