It rolls several of the benefits of a mobile phone, personal digital assistant and wireless messaging pager into one, without being terribly bulky.
Handspring, Samsung, Kyocera, Nokia and others showed their latest attempts to fulfill the dream of the information worker: to combine all of today's belt-borne electronics -- Palm organizer, cellphone and text pager -- into a single gadget.
Many of them returned to the Crystal Suite for the wedding of Marisol Cruz and Alfredo Torres, a Yankee fan who had been keeping track of the game through a pager tucked into his tuxedo pocket.
Beginning in 1990, at roughly the same time AT&T hired Mr. Campana to develop pager technology into a wireless mail gateway, Mr. Goodfellow set out to commercialize his idea, ultimately receiving $3 million from financial backers such as Motorola.
Probably, unless a company policy forbade wandering around typing into pagers, said Lawrence Lorber, a partner at Proskauer Rose in Washington.
Peterborough City Hospital has ditched pagers – which were introduced into hospitals in the 1950s – and has been using a two-way, hands-free device which can be slung around the neck or worn as a badge.
No dissent is allowed in Parliament, where Labour MPs are chained to pagers like young offenders to electronic tags, and whipped into divisions like sheep.
Both are GSM cell phones with hands-free headsets plugged into what are essentially the clamshell bodies of pagers with full qwerty keyboards.
Others offer pagers for anxious parents.
For short messages there are two-way pagers like Motorola's T900 Talkabout, not to mention the various short-message services built into cell phones.
Now, they've morphed into on-call pagers and mini laptops full of digital content.
