Article Title: PDAS are nothing without communications
`Author: Kobielus, James
`Pub/icati(m.' Networ/r Wm-/d; Sep 13. 1993; Vol: 10, lss: 37; Page: 68;
`Summary: Possible Apple Newton PDA with wireless communications, GPS, GPS maps stored on memory cards.
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`PDAS are nothing Without
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`he lirst personal digital assistants (PDA)
`are a bit of a disappointment after all the
`press and marketing buildup. Communi-
`cations functions were supposed to be
`integral to Apple Computer, lnc.'s Message Pad, the
`first implementation of its Newton hardware. It was
`also supposed to be integral to the Tandy Corp.lCasio,
`Inc. Zoomer, AT&TlE(), lnc. E0 Personal Communi-
`cator and others.
`But communications functions now
`seem more an afterthoughtinthe product
`designs. None of these products’ core
`functions - personal organizer. address
`book, notebook and datcbuok - inher-
`ently requires a communications link.
`The original PDA vision, according to
`Apple Chairman john Sculley, wasalow-
`cost, all-purpose, hand-held, graphically
`oriented, stylus-driven, untethered com-
`munications terminal. Today's PDA:
`certainly fit this description — indeed, their commu-
`nications interfaces run the gamut from the familiar
`RS-232C cable and software combination that feeds a
`modem, to more exotic creatures such as facsimile
`modems, cellular modems and wireless local-area
`network transceivers. However, somethingstill seems
`to be missing.
`What will distinguish these compact devices from
`the standard palmtop organizer or pen-based com-
`puter? Handwriting recognition and gestural data
`input are important PDA tcaturcs, but they won't
`make a splash in the public consciousness.
`To make fledgling l’DAs really useful, what's
`needed are compelling mass-market applications and
`a ubiquitous, wireless, public-networking infrastruc-
`ture geared to hand-held data terminals. Both of these
`objectives are within users’ reach it the communica-
`tions industry rallies around a coherent, application-
`oriented vision.
`My crystal ball says the defining application of
`PDAs will be in electronic news, document and mes-
`sage distribution. PDAs will become digital paper — a
`portable medium for capturing, filtering, displaying,
`storing and relaying perishable information, such as
`urgent messages from the office, up-to-the-minute
`stock prices orbreaking news.
`PDAS will be communications—enablcd informa-
`tion receptacles and will not be regarded as productiv-
`ity tools any more than we would regard our newspa-
`per or cable television as a productivity tool. And,
`unlike desktop and laptop personal computers. they
`will seldom be used for heavy-duty data entry, analy-
`sis, composition or storage.
`The communications industry won‘t realize this
`digital papervision unless it reengineers PDAsand the
`public networkalong the following lines:
`First, PDA users should be provided with afford-
`able, flat-rate. ubiquitous, wireless access to real-time
`news and information services. Today's real-time
`news servicesare pruhihitivelyexpensive and accessi-
`ble primarily through dial-np terrestrial phone lines.
`A mass market for PDAcnahled electronic newspa-
`pers will not develop until wireless users can access a
`basic package of real-time newsfeeds at an affordable,
`flat monthly rate.This pricingstruclure hasscrved the
`CATV industry and consumer-oriented information
`services providers via such services as that of Prodigy
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`Services Co, quite well.
`Then, every PDA should be equipped with elec-
`tronic mail client software or firmware and a ready-to-
`go account on a wireless messaging service. It's not
`enough to simply provide PDAs with physical com-
`munications interfaces, such as infrared ports and
`wireless modems.
`Users should be able to start communicating the
`moment they take their PDA gadgets out
`of the box.
`It doesn't really matter
`which wirclcss messaging service the
`PDA is set up to use — whether it be ser-
`vices offered by ARDIS Co. RAM
`Mobile Data, Inc. or any other vendors’
`that will spring up with the advent of
`personal communications networks.
`Any of these fledgling services will
`almost
`certainly
`intercommunicate
`through X400 and X500 gateways.
`Let's hope that reports of Apple plan-
`ning to enable its Message Pad to communicate with
`AT&T's Easylink messaging service prove true.
`On top of access to a wireless service. each PDA
`should also support real-time geolocation, the capa-
`bility to determine where a user is geographically
`located at all times. This would require the combina-
`tion of a global positioningsystcm (GPS) receiver and
`a CDROM-based map database. The main concern of
`mobile users may not be newsgatbering or messaging
`so much as simply figuring out where they are on a
`in
`A
`PDAs would be the ideal medium to bring such
`geolocation to the masses. The devices could be
`equipped with low-cost GPS receivers that, by hom-
`ing in on satellite signals, would calculate the user's
`precise latitude and longitude to within 10 feel. The
`FDA could pinpoint these coordinates on street maps
`retrieved from a miniaturized CDROM installed in a
`Personal Computer Memory Card lntemational
`Association slot on the PDA.
`PDAs should also be engineered to display digital
`paper that closely resembles actual text documents
`and newspapers. However,
`the Message Pad and
`other l’DAs arejust too small and too low in quality to
`serve as effective publishing mediums. The mini-
`mum acceptable screen dimensions should be the
`same as a standard-sire letter -— 8 112 by it inches —
`with VGA-quality resolution and color. Todisplay text
`and graphics in their original document formats.
`PDAs should also be equipped with cross-platform
`file viewers such as Adobe Systems, lncfs Acrobat or
`Nol-landssoflware. lnc.'s Common (Around, perhaps
`burned intothe PDA‘: read-only memory.
`l‘llbettherc arc vendors working on all these com-
`munications-savvy PDA ideas. It would be nice.
`though, if someone in the industry presented a PDA
`vision with a little more thought behind it than just
`"Smaller is better."
`Ubiquitous communications is the promise of
`PDAs. it should be this focus on communications that
`drives the research and development surrounding
`this potentially revolutionary technology.
`'9K0l)lCl|IS, a contributing editor to Networlz World, isa
`telecommunications analyst with Fairfax, Va.-based
`Network Management, Inc.. a lot-al- and widearea network
`systems integrator. He can he reachedat (202) 218-4362.
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