Marge Brown

Business users will find everything they need in the Palm Tungsten C ($500 street), a powerful PDA with built-in Wi-Fi (802.11b) networking that provides wireless access to corporate applications, a desktop PIM, e-mail, and the Web. This latest addition to the Tungsten line incorporates a 400-MHz Intel XScale processor, the latest Palm OS (5.2.1), a […]

Forget your impression of the Palm Zire as a strictly entry-level PDA. Palm closes the long-running multimedia gap between its PDAs and Pocket PCs with the Palm Zire 71 ($300 street), providing the young professionals who are its target audience—and anyone else who wants a multipurpose PDA—with a rich multimedia experience and a well-appointed personal […]

Already hooked on a handheld? If not, chances are you know someone who is. The only downside to owning one is eyeing with envy all the new models that hit the market every few months. With the prices of basic models in free fall and manufacturers dreaming up all sorts of features to pack into […]

The Nokia 3650 ($300 street), a high-style, high-speed data phone with integrated Bluetooth, blurs the line between feature-rich phones and PDA/phone combos. The 3650, which functions primarily as a phone and camera, is based on the Symbian operating system. It runs the Nokia Series 60 graphical user interface and has support for third-party applications. The […]

We love everything about each successive Clié PDA that Sony releases—except for the mounting prices. But the new Sony Clié PEG-TG50 ($400 street) gives road warriors a host of features at an affordable price. With this model, youll find a built-in keyboard, integrated Bluetooth wireless, a voice recorder, and the excellent proprietary interface Clié Launcher, […]

Samsungs newest PDA/phone combination, the dual-band Samsung SPH-i330 ($500 street), is markedly sleeker and more refined than its predecessor, the well-received Samsung SPH-i300. The i330 is dark gray and silver, weighs 5.8 ounces, and measures 5.8 by 2.5 by 0.8 inches (HWD) but feels smaller because of its comfortable sculpted design. The unit has 16MB […]

The Intermec 760 Color Mobile Computer, a Pocket PC 2002 PDA, costs a whopping $3,650 (street). Then again, this rugged device comes fully loaded with a 2-D bar code scanner, Bluetooth for wireless personal area networking, 802.11b for LAN communications, and GSM/GPRS capability with T-Mobile service for WAN communications (CDMA/1xRTT support is coming shortly). A […]

Palm impressed us last year with the Palm i705, which delivered wireless e-mail and messaging to the already-robust PDA platform. Now comes the next logical follow-on: voice calls in addition to wireless data. Although competitors like the Handspring Treo and the T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone beat Palm to market, the Palm Tungsten W ($549 list) […]

If you use a Pocket PC 2002 PDA that has wireless LAN capabilities, add one more item to your able-to-do list: Make phone calls. The TeleSym SymPhone System ($3,000 to $28,000 list for 10 to 100 licenses) is designed for enterprise workgroups. It supports PDA-to-PDA calls on the same network or calls across the globe […]

Sony Electronics flagship PDA, the Sony Clié PEG-NX70V, is bumped aside by the Sony Clié PEG-NZ90 ($800 street), which advances the product line with an effective 2-megapixel camera, integrated Bluetooth, a removable rechargeable lithium-ion battery pack, and a redesigned USB docking cradle that has an AV output jack and USB printer port—not bad for only […]

Once viewed as sleeper products, pocket-size USB storage devices seem to be gaining momentum. Devices like the new SanDisk Cruzer ($59.99 to $199.99 direct, depending on the amount of memory) provide users with an alternative storage method to limited-capacity floppy disks and larger, less portable alternatives, such as Iomega Zip drives and media. The Cruzer […]