Smart phones have been one of the big subjects of 2003. But how close are we to the dream of a single device, great for voice, multimedia and various data apps, one equally at home in a high-powered meeting or down the pub?
With the benefits of mobile data access well and truly taken for granted, the spectre of several false starts is finally far behind the market for smaller smartphone and PDA styled mobile devices.
We look at four examples of the way mobile technologies such as GPRS and 802.11 are giving Australian businesses the opportunity to bring the benefits of connectivity to mobile workers.
O2's Xda II combines a tri-band GPRS/GSM phone with Bluetooth, a digital camera, 128MB of RAM and a SDIO slot into a sleek Pocket PC-based device. Read our Australian review.
When David Beckham departs for Spain, he'll naturally want to know the score back home, with the help of the latest technology. He won't be short of a bob or two, so here's the tackle we reckon Becks should have on his shopping list.
If you're a globe-trotter, you'll need a world phone to keep in touch from almost anywhere.
It has Wi-Fi, a 2-megapixel camera and runs on Windows Mobile 5.0, yet shares the same dimensions as the Xda II Mini. Find out what the hype on the Xda Atom is all about.
O2's combo phone/pda hybrid has the backing of industry heavyweights Telstra and Microsoft. Does it deliver heavyweight performance? Read our Australian review.
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