Re:MOTOROLA NEWSCARD (and others
UFEAR50@aol.com
XXX, 3 Dec 1994 11:40:50 -0400 (EDT)
I went to the Mobile World Conference this past weekend at Boston. Very Very interesting. All kinds of new handhelds, laptops (pen based) , and pen apps are starting to come out. I talked with SkyTel people, who are making a PCMCIA pager system (one-way with acknowledge 2-way currently). Within the end of next year they are planning for it to do wireless comm up to about 200 bytes. I also met a person from a company who has a pager app for the Zoomer, and one -way paging. (he can send messages back using the same app, and a land-line call.
Things look very exciting for the next few years. two-way wireless com, as well as handhelds are starting to catch on with BIG industries for doing specialized work at minimal cost. As the industries started making mode demands for 'the Mobile workplace' (ie Pepsi, AT&T, etc) more useful products well become available. But I guess it doesn't help those who want it NOW!
-ajay