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To: DaveMG who wrote (2263)	11/12/1998 12:19:00 PM
From: Mika Kukkanen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 5390

DaveMG: Agree with "the eye of the beholder" The Palm Pilot is popular, but no where near the penetration figures seen in the US. My argument has been; why have a PDA/phone when you could have them separately, especially when Bluetooth technology comes to market. The old Nokia Communicator is a brick and a half (yes I had one), more gimmick than a work tool. Didn't like making calls from it either, it was excellent for emails and SMS though. The new Communicator is far less bulky, it is about the size of a GSM phone was around 3 years ago. But here we have to make the distinction between a smartphone and PDA/phone. The state of technology today, means that any PDA/phone will not be an ideal tool to make a call. And a smartphone, e.g., Communicator, doesn't have the capability that I require. The Ericsson MC-16 (a specialized version of Hewlett Packard's PDA) is fine (but expensive!), as it allows me to choose if I take a PDA or not. Bluetooth technology will revolutionize how we think of all our work aids: I will walk into my office and my PC will be talking to my phone, whilst getting updated information from my PDA in my briefcase...and that's before I sit down and take a sip of my coffee! Let's think that having separate modules is like having your HiFi play through your TV...I don't think so, although I do play my TV through my HiFi (! Maybe a bad analogy)But thank God that they are not combined.