When you do connect, prepare to be patient. Information retrieval cantake anywhere from 10 seconds to a minute or slightly more. Connection timecan be slower during peak Internet use times or if users are outside urbanareas. These channels are alsofree, but this service does not offer live browsing. The handheld Web browsing experience was essentially the same for allthree models.
Users first choose a broad category such as news, entertainment,traffic or weather.
Each category is then broken into subcategories or listsof sites. The information retrieved appears as text. The bottom line is that none of the devices came close to replicatingWeb browsing on a desktop computer, and e-mail functionality varies dependingon the device. But despite the limitations, they do offer a level of convenienceunmatched by desktop PCs or mobile devices without wireless capability. We also found that wireless connection ability and speed is generally consistentacross the different types of devices, and much of the same informationis accessible via the different Web content services.