from the clueless dept: Why would I want a PDA-phone hybrid? Why do I have the uneasy feeling the newly announced Motorola/Palm product, due in 2002, may end up combining everything Palm knows about cell phones with everything Motorola knows about personal organizers? Is it that none of the current devices even comes close to being useful for most people who already own a cell phone and a PDA? Dont take my word for it: Check out the MobilePlanet and iGO catalogs, where the latest wireless wonders are all on display. Sure, theyre cool, but are they useful? And how about those new devices that are supposed to turn Palms and Visors into cell phones? Give me a break -- Im supposed to talk into something that looks like that? How useful can the combination really be? Cool? Yes. Practical? Hardly. And $299 seems a bit steep. Is this really necessary? <snip> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20000926/tc/keep_your_phone_off_my_palm__1.h... The real issue will be power consumption vs. mips for crypto. And user interfaces.