It's a combined personal digital assistant, phone, MP3 player and web browser, but the real secret is in Pogo's data compression technology. It squeezes a webpage into a data file a fifth of the size of the original, so it reaches the device five times faster. That means its 9.6Kbps GSM connection delivers web pages as fast as your 56Kpbs connection at home. It uses Flash too. Email and texting are combined in one messaging function - input the text and choose whether to send it as email, SMS or both.
Quirky design is practical, too.
The four knobbly corners hide the stylus, hands free jack, charger socket and aerial. But the first batch of the final version is on the way, with beefed-up hardware including a better antenna for weaker signals. Pogo Technology Ltd.