Here's why it will help open tremendous opportunities for TD Waterhouse in the wireless space, with surprisingly little effort and expense. The iPAQ Pocket PC is not one more device that busy users have to learn. While not one customer has this device yet, every one of them already knows how to use it. Customers are already clamoring for them. It can hold thousands of names and addresses and it comes with standard Microsoft Windows applications including Pocket Excel, Pocket Word and Outlook.
People find that very exciting.
Slide-on Expansion Packs allow the iPAQ Pocket PC to accommodate standard PC cards or Compaq Flash cards. This provides the ability to gain wireless access to the complete World Wide Web and corporate networks - a capability not available on other handhelds. To connect through any of these, you just slide in a card. And it's the same card I use in my laptop. Since the iPAQ Pocket PC doesn't require any substantial modifications to their infrastructure, the firm has found it remarkably easy to accommodate customer use of the iPAQ Pocket PC operating in a Windows environment.