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To: tero kuittinen who wrote (15284)	9/21/1998 12:34:00 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Respond to of 152472

O.T. - Florence Joyner (age 38) has died from a heart seizure. Jon.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (15284)	9/21/1998 1:05:00 PM
From: Quincy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Hi Tero. Their "Grafitti" pen-input language takes some time to master. The giraffe game helps. Since the touch screen gives them a drawing pad along with a larger LCD display, the Pen is still the most effective PDA input device. What if the Nokia9000 avoided the micro-keyboard in the first place? We already know what the consumer response is to pen-based PDA's. Palm products make up 70% of the PDA market according to PC magazine. Check out one of the Pilot webrings: webring.org There are already several thousand Palm applications along with many usergroups across the world. All of them are compatible with pdQ.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (15284)	9/21/1998 1:29:00 PM
From: SKIP PAUL	Respond to of 152472

Palm pilot has the best handwriting recognition I have seen. Moreover typing on a touch QWERTY board should be no more difficult than typing on Nokia's mini qwerty board.

To: tero kuittinen who wrote (15284)	9/21/1998 1:38:00 PM
From: engineer	Respond to of 152472

As opposed to ONLY having a keyboard which can be used by a pencil tapping on it. The Nokia keys are so close together they cannot be used by the normal male adult. I suppose that having a keyboard for pecking away is reassuring to most. Does the Nokia allow you to go out on the net and download new programs? check out the palm pilot web pages available. A design constraint was that the pdQ run as many as possible of these programs out of the box. Hook it to the sync base and download whatever you want. Users can write their own applications ( like for corporate data applications) as well. I just don;t remember this type of ground swell in secondary markets emerging for the Nokia (IN ALL it's glorious 2 years on the market...)