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I wasn't sure how to view it, but BellSouth Cellular Corp.'s Simon--a combination of a personal digital assistant (PDA), cellular phone, and communicator--is such a compelling product that I even took it on vacation so I could try it out.
At first glance its function seems obvious. In fact, when I showed Simon to my friend's 4-year-old daughter, she yelled out, "Yvonne, that's a phone!" Even BellSouth calls it the "Simon Cellular Phone."
But Simon is more than your ordinary cellular phone. It's a phone with a CPU. It comes with Mobile Office, a bundle of applications that includes an address book, alarm clock, file system, fax machine, cc:Mail, to-do list, calendar, notepad, sketchpad, several calculators, a cellular paging system, and system controls. To top it off, these office tools are integrated with a cellular phone and built-in fax modem.
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