Either save their messages in your personal mailbox on the device, and needlessly choke up the paltry on-board storage, or painstakingly type in each email address by hand. A simple instruction, which would have taken about six lines of microcode, would let users add incoming email addresses to the system's address book. No, because it apparently conducted absolutely zero tests on how users would really operate the device. Even worse, once you go through all that painful data entry, there's no way to back up your address book. I can understand that Motorola wanted to keep the cost down, so it didn't include a hardware PC link.
Cell phones are the same way.
You can't use that fancy, futuristic data link to actually transfer phone numbers from the phone to your PC and back again. Even the wireless Palm VII , one of the best of the bunch, won't let you sync your PDA with your desktop wirelessly. Let's do some thinking about how users really want to use their wireless devices. Otherwise, they'll remain just about as useless as those weather forecasts in the Farmer's Almanac . TechTV Inc. All rights reserved.