Can It Be A Mobile Phone Replacement?
While the result is a hefty handset by today’s standards, there are some compensations. The phone applet lets you grab numbers directly from your Palm address book. Heavy SMS users will be overjoyed with the built-in SMS messaging services. The GA100 uses a hands-free headset with audio quality matching that of most mid-range mobile phones. The only real downside is battery life — three hours talk time or 25 hours standby is almost pitiful, even if the GA100 conveniently charges while connected to the Vx from the Palm’s desktop cradle. Surfing Is Easy For mobile Internet and email, the GA100 comes supplied with Palm’s own Mobile Internet Kit, enabling you to hook up to your ISP, grab mails, and view WAP pages or specially clipped versions of popular Web sites. To see other pages you’ll need a third-party browser, but the text-only, shareware DPWeb had a decent crack at everything we threw at it. Web and email connections seem slow compared to a standard desktop connection, but it’s st
