The user interface on the handhelds is designed to mimic the customers experience of using the online trading facility through a PC, spokesperson Peter Duvall told ZDNet Australia. The GPRS data transfer is handled by Vodafone.
-No-one in the marketplace at the moment is allowing someone to get market details, financial information, or to trade through a handheld device," he said. -The response has been quite positive."
-The application was designed to run on a Pocket PC 2002 operating system," Chris Hagios, managing director of Airloom, said in a statement. People wishing to use the service cannot use a different handheld device.
TD Waterhouse expects the financial services aspect of wireless data applications to increase by more than 300 percent by the year 2005.
