* "Don't forget to check your P.D.A., your text-messaging device and your cellphone".
The case was about an Ontario, Calif., police sergeant, Jeff Quon, who had been given a text-messaging device by his department.
It shows a mobile phone that changes size, layout and shape, and acts as a futuristic alarm clock, e-reader and messaging device.
A modern handset can function as a digital camera, music player, radio, games console and messaging device, as well as being a phone.
At the head of the pack is the Blackberry, a wireless e-mail messaging device introduced in 1999 by Research in Motion Ltd., a company based in Waterloo, Ontario.
With $612.5 million coming in from the maker of the BlackBerry messaging device, patent holding company NTP has plenty of ammunition for its next move — whatever that may be.
Two years ago, AOL ended a deal with Research in Motion in which the two companies offered a co-branded wireless messaging device.
So this reporter, as Howard Cosell would say, had no one but his son, back in New York on the other end of a text-message device, involved, creating the operating-room atmosphere we prefer for big Jets games.
What was once a simple portable telephone and text-messaging device is now typically a powerful internet-access terminal, a high-quality digital camera, a portable games console, a music-player and a high-definition TV you can watch anywhere.
Peek Pronto: Mobile messaging device.
