The handhelds retail at between £359 and £399 depending on the number of devices purchased. Survival of the connected. Get yourself connected Composing emails and having the device connected via GPRS eats up power very quickly.
Furthermore, users pay for the data transferred over the network rather than for the time they are connected so bills are kept manageable. By installing wireless LANs in such areas, service providers create connectivity 'hot spots'.
Several big players are currently competing to establish themselves in the fuzzy area where computing and wireless devices come together: Microsoft with its Windows CE-based devices, PalmSource with Palm OS-based wireless handhelds and smartphones...
In fact, wireless handhelds, which ABI dubs 'connected PDAs', will comprise over half the market in 2006, said ABI. But new devices like the upcoming Treo 600 will help give a much-needed boost to sales of wireless handhelds, said the report.
According to Namboka, there has been a concerted industry effort to build business applications that meet the needs and challenges of the mobility world: "The needs and challenges of mobility for enterprise applications include the [user's...
Starting with a square mile across Soho and the West End, the entire City of Westminster will be connected by the end of 2008, a spokesperson for Westminster Council said. The Council spokesperson said: "It will allow council workers to carry out...