Another area that has opened is in the multimedia area. This technology is easily adapted to the handheld devices. E-books, music, photographs, and some video are being ported into the PDAs. General Internet browsing is available with wireless connections and will undoubtedly be stronger in the very near future. Wireless communication covers a really broad spectrum of capabilities that are intertwined.
Wireless communication can also be the two-way pager and smart cellular voice phone.
Two-way pagers and Web access voice cellular phones fall into the smart wireless communication capability category also because data can be transmitted to and from the device. For the purposes of this column, we are defining wireless communication as those hand-held devices capable of receiving and processing complex data streams. Wireless communication also includes our subject at hand in taking a PDA on the road and being able to send and receive data such as Internet Web URL data, and e-mail. And, still another technology being merged into all this is the cellular phone with Web access. We are concentrating on the wireless communication capabilities of the PDAs in this column.