Boosting your phone's intelligence. (Cahners In-Stat Group Exclusive Research).(Brief Article)

Wireless Week, March, 2002 by Diercks, Rebecca

You probably thought only people could get smarter-but that's not the case. New technology can make wireless phones more intelligent, too.

Newer technologies, including WAP 2.0, Qualcomm's BREW and Sun Microsystem Inc.'s Java 2 Micro Edition, not only boost a phone's IQ, they also make the devices more useful to subscribers. This is important because only 8 percent of wireless Internet users say they are very satisfied with their wireless Internet experience. Obviously, there is significant room for improvement.

A recent survey of Cahners In-Stat/MDR's Wireless Internet Panel illustrates that white most users don't know very much about the new technologies, they are interested in the capabilities they can deliver.

First, a short...

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