When can iPAQ my PC and cell phone away?
by Nicki Hayes, July 16, 2001 PC XPO is one of the worlds largest PC trade shows and this years big theme was handheld devices, confirming that the future of the PC is in the hand and not solely on the desktop. The star of the show was Compaqs iPAQ range of PDAs. Nicki Hayes, WDNs European correspondent, looks at why the iPAQ is proving a serious competitor to PalmOS based devices, reports on the range of new add-ons which could change the way corporate users work and asks, When will I be able to pack my PC and phone away for good? A recent slowdown in desktop and server PC sales has been mirrored by a growth in the sales of handheld computers, so it was of little surprise then that the theme of this years PC XPO show was handheld devices. But to those of us who have been reasonably content with our Palm OS devices and have done little to keep up to date with new handheld contenders, the presence of Compaqs range of iPAQ devices might have been a bit of a surprise. Indeed, PalmOS devic
