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To: A.J. Mullen who wrote (1410)	11/10/1997 12:49:00 AM
From: Gary Spiers	Respond to of 60323

Mike and A.J. permit me butting in here. There is a question about why you would want so much memory in a phone but we are not really talking about a phone but more of an integrated phone/computer system aka the Nokia phone. As an example, for my current palmtop I have 3 type II PCMCIA flashcards totaling 50MB of storage - what this means is that in a device in the palm of my hand I can hold much of the data and applications (word processing, spreadsheets, email, faxing, web browsing, custom software) I need to conduct my business. The palmtop itself runs on two AA batteries, has instant on (no delay at all) and has an operational life up to 40 hours on one set of batteries. The data rate possible over a cellular phone is about 14.4 max. under ideal conditions. I personally have not actually used my palmtop with a cellular phone - landlines are always convenient for me (and cheaper) but have a few friends that do. A.J. mentioned GPS moving map displays - several private pilots I know use palmtops for this - they can then buy a relatively cheap handheld GPS unit and use shareware moving map software on their palmtops. One benefit is that this becomes an open system and they can edit the maps to suit their needs. Incidentally if you want to play with GPS DeLorme sells a combined map program and GPS unit for under $150 that would work with a laptop or your desktop but that is kind of hard to move around :-) Gary Spiers