But if you capture the beer-bongers, you'll see traffic numbers rise way out of proportion to the number of partygoers. But there's another type of visitor you need to plan for. An emerging class of very-low bandwidth Internet appliances is creating a third tier of visitors. These devices use wireless networks to do short, directed Web queries. In Motion, currently leads the pack.
Web pages are slow to come down and blocky too.
On the upcoming side, the new Motorola PageWriter 2000 is similar to the RIM, but adds in some PIM features as well, including calendaring, todos and notetaking. And Neopoint seems to be leading the pack when it comes to combining Web, e-mail, phone and PDA capabilities. Their small portable phone uses the Sprint PCS network and handwriting recognition to build a viable platform. A little further out, 3Com plans to release the Palm 7, which turns the standard Pilot into a wireless Internet and e-mail terminal. The Palm 7 will use the CDPD network, a Bell South competitor.