Here you can select your own web pages or subscribe to existing channels. It competes with the Microsoft Mobile Channels. It requires simultaneous ActiveSync and web connections. It supports BMP, GIF and JPEG format graphics. Thus connection to stock and bank access are limited.
Examples are palm-size PCs, machine information displays and public display systems.
Alice grows or shrinks to fit the application. The following Figure 1.1 shows the architecture that is used for the browser. The browser is based on the Grow Graphical User Interface which was developed by Grow Software. Developed by none other than Microsoft it is a prototype of technology which blends speech, pen and other multi-modal input capabilities into an interface that runs on various wireless devices such as mobile phones, pagers, wrist watches. It also offers different Internet Explorer configurations for devices such as Pocket IE for PocketPC handhelds, Mobile Explorer for phones and TV Explorer for WebTV systems.