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MUSIC MAKER As if remembering dozens of numbers and surfing the Web weren't enough, wireless phones can now play music, thanks to MP3 player accessories. Ericsson's sleek, brushed-metal MP3 player ($199 at ericssonus.com is designed to work with three of its newest phones. It plays MP3s stored on tiny 32-MB disks, which can hold 30 minutes of music. When a call comes in, the music stops and the earphones do double duty as a hands-free earpiece and mike. A cell phone's work is never done...
...radiation levels for phones now in stores hints at the choices that consumers will soon face. The data first appeared on an obscure fcc website in June and has since become available on a more consumer-friendly Internet venue www.sardata.com/sardata.htm) According to these figures, users of an Ericsson T28 World digital phone absorb an SAR of 1.49, while owners of a Motorola StarTAC 7860 get just 0.24. "Numbers without context do not help any consumer," says Mikael Westmark, a health-and-safety spokesman for Ericsson. Concurs William Plummer, Nokia's vice president for government and industry affairs: "All these...
Rossman is the guy behind WAP, or wireless application protocol. Like packet switching or HTML, it doesn't sound like much, but it's vitally important to the future of the Internet. WAP lays out the rules for squeezing the best of the Net onto that Nokia (or Ericsson or Motorola) in your pocket. Rossman left his native Paris, picked up an M.B.A. at Stanford, worked on the original Apple Macintosh, started three companies and sold one to AT&T before even thinking about WAP. But his best move was attending a 1994 wireless convention in Santa Clara, Calif., where...
...onscreen. The more food you collect, the longer your onscreen "snake" grows, and the more points you get. To maneuver, you press the 2 key to move up, the 8 key to go down and so on. I was even more impressed by the upcoming version of Tetris that Ericsson managed to squeeze into its T28 world phone. Even though the screen is no bigger than a piece of Trident gum, I had as much fun playing my favorite video game as I ever did on a computer...
...rules more than half the wireless world, and Nokia's sales of GSM phones account for most of its 30% global market share. Nokia's big coup came in 1998 when it surpassed Motorola. This year's first-quarter earnings beat the most optimistic projection, whereas both Motorola and Ericsson remain in recovery mode. "It would take a moon shot to make a dent in Nokia's position," says Dataquest's Bryan Prohm...