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  Brandon, 12 Jun 2001 @ 1:17am

  
  

  japan has all the goodies

  including palm size devices where the keyboard
  is under the bottom portion of the unit, which
  slides out to reveal the keyboard.
  
  Of course, the unit also has wireless connectivity
  (and I'm talking useful stuff, not this wap shit,
  or palm clippings)

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    Nabeel, 12 Jun 2001 @ 8:28am

    
    

    Re: japan has all the goodies

    What your referring to (with the keyboard) is a Sanyo (or was it Samsung) product.. and it's coming to the US this year (and it'll be running Linux when it's the US).
    
    As for full internet access, you can get that through PDAs right now -- try the Handspring with a VisorPhone and use Handspring's Blazer browser, full internet. (no WAP crap) -- it ain't fast, but it us available.

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      Brandon, 12 Jun 2001 @ 1:45pm

      
      

      Re: japan has all the goodies

      The problem with WAP or even the VisorPhone, is that it requires a phone call... and especially on
      these little devices, you spend a great deal more
      time looking/scrolling/typing than you actually spend downloading information, which means paying by the minute for the connection is ridiculous, not to mention the huge set-up time for making the connection.
      
      The DoCoMo phones I looked at in Japan didn't seem to have this problem. Hence, people were more likely to do some quick lookup, etc.
      
      I'll have to look for it when it comes to the states... but since I never use my palm anymore ...

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  mhh5, 6 Jul 2001 @ 12:01am

  
  

  try this keypad?

  http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/onetouch.jsp

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