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To: Elmer who wrote (149859)	11/27/2001 3:09:30 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

A PDA For Professionals biz.yahoo.com Tuesday November 27, 10:00 am Eastern Time Forbes.com A PDA For Professionals By Arik Hesseldahl The next great target of conquest for the personal digital assistant is the corporate market. Most of Palm 's Palm operating system-based and Microsoft 's Pocket PC devices used in the corporate world are there because the people who bought them tend use them both at work and at home, not because the information technology staff ordered them for everyone in the company. That's about to change. Or at least that's what the device manufacturers hope. That's why Japan's NEC earlier this month announced what it calls an "enterprise class" personal digital assistant (PDA), meaning it's suitable for heavy-duty corporate users. Dubbed MobilePro P300, it runs the Pocket PC 2002 operating system. The hardware includes two slots for removable media: one for the 32-megabyte Secure Digital flash memory card that comes included; the other for Compact Flash Type II memory cards. Inside it has 32 megabytes of built-in RAM memory, and another 32 megabytes of flash ROM memory. Its main processor is an Intel StrongARM running at 206 megahertz. It has a 65,000-color, thin-film transistor front-lit display. It also comes with a handful of business applications. Among them are ClearVue from Westtek , which displays spreadsheets from Microsoft Exel and presentations from PowerPoint with animations and transitions; Voice Messenger Force from Ruksun Software which allows voice-enabled instant messaging; and NEC's own MobilePro Synchronization System, which, when combined with a server software package sold separately, helps with data management and recovery. NEC's MobilePro is not going to be sold through retailers, but rather through distributors and resellers who cater to business customers, or from NEC directly. At $600 each, it better improve productivity around the office, or outside of it. Related Links at Forbes.com News Scan: Nov. 21, 2001 Your Portfolio Versus the IRS Go to www.forbes.com to see all of our latest stories, or Subscribe