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One great thing about having a WiFi or bluetooth Pocket PC is you can take your office virtually anywhere. But the problem is that sometimes the "everywhere" you are that moment may not be hooked up for wifi. Which leads us to our segway about this commentary over at Computerworld. The author sees the "unconnected" PDAs and Pocket PCs becoming dinosaurs rather quickly with the need for connected devices taking over. " It would be great to have a unified architecture for mobile digital content, applications and devices, an architecture that would let me link my efforts at work with my content and information at home seamlessly. I could be mobile and still access any critical information that was contextually relative.
Although the unified platform doesn't exist, an emerging crop of portable devices does, thankfully, grant me greater flexibility in synchronization and connectivity. While the PDA started a revolution years ago, the need for disconnected PDAs is rapidly declining. In fact, a few years ago, I predicted that most portable devices sold on the market would have at least two forms of connectivity built in. That proved to be correct, and today connectivity should be a primary driver when you're looking into mobile device purchases for business use. There are several factors that come into play in making the purchasing decision. "
Any Comments?
I agree that for people who are already connected this connectivity is more important now than it used to be and for those users this sentiment is true. But I still see people every day who view computers of any kind as "work" and who have no desire to get connected. Some of these people do use PDAs to keep their schedule and have no desire to do email or web surfing on it. This group is not going away nor getting smaller. That's why low-end PDAs are selling like hot cakes.
__________________ James Kendrick Microsoft MVP - Tablet PCwww.jkontherun.com Lockergnome contributor- Mobile Lifestyle...using mobile devices since they weighed 30 lbs.
I would agree - some very distinct markets, low end who are looking for pocket organizers, medium who will settle for limited connectivity and do a small amount of work while away from the office. But there is a road warrior market that is being ignored in the PPC market. RIM is grabbing them and so is Palm, but they do not provide a robust enough operating system. I personally use a 3950 with a sleeve to a Sprint CF card... I am looking to dump the sleeve as I do not like the footprint. WiFi is great but I need connectivity. PPC needs a cellular based connection and possibly and always on or at minimum a polling mail delivery option.
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