Future Gear: Seeking the 
Handheld Holy Grail

http://www.pcworld.com/features/article/0,aid,86243,00.asp

This article is about the future of handhelds. It observes the fact that
 what information technology is striving for is complete "convergence".
 The idea is to make everything a person could need into one device.
 PC home computers pretty much do this already (my computer is
 almost my entire entertainment, study, and work system) but they fall 
short in one major area: portability. So the information technology 
industry is fixing it through the design of handheld computers with wireless 
phones intrgrated into them. One of the soon to be newer ones is the
 Danger Hip Top, "a 5-ounce device that includes a cell phone, a Web 
browser, an instant messenger, and an e-mail client" apparently the idea 
is to use the net as a back up drive instead of the usual PC hard drive
 that most existing PDAs use, that way you always have the information 
you put in it even if the device itself is lost in Hong Kong. It has many
 other features such as 2.5G Internet speed technologies with a theoretical 
maximum speed of 115 kilobits per second which is quite fast.  The 
article goes on to talk about 3G technologies, which will be around 
in a few years. This technology will allow for cell "video phones" and 
even greater convergence of technologies and devices. I thought it was 
a pretty interesting article and am looking forward to the devices they 
are talking about.
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